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mahimabh 's review for:
Babylon Revisited: And Other Stories
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Reading Fitzgerald is my favourite thing ever. There's this very naked and very stark beauty to Fitzgerald's writing that I haven't found in any other writer. I hadn't read a lot of his short stories before this, and I'm really glad I picked this up. Loved every story (except The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, which despite hearing good things about it I thought was just okay) in this particular collection, my favourite being The Rich Boy and Babylon Revisited. I'm starting to pick up that a few themes are common to most of Fitzgerald's work which bring to fore the ugly underbelly of the Jazz Age, and most of them also seem to have some semblance of an autobiographical element to them. Reading these stories reminded me a lot of Gatsby (one of my all time favourites) and I'm eager to finally read my next Fitzgerald novel although I'm not sure which one I'll pick up first.