mcsangel2 's review for:

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2.0

This is the second Fitzgerald book I've read, after The Beautiful and the Damned. The first half was good enough, though not as good as TBATD. It suddenly became rather disjointed in the second half, and I had to fight my way through it.

That being said, as this was Fitzgerald's first book, I can see why he was such a sensation. I don't imagine anyone else was writing like this in 1920. But if you are new to his work, I would skip over this one.