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This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Meandering and ultimately kind of pointless, this book purports to say something about a generation that is long gone, through literary devices that were once innovative, but are now reasonably commonplace. This book follows the journey of Amory Blaine, a pompous and spoiled youth, towards a particular brand of socialism that can only be described as “a formerly rich person is surprised to learn most people have to work for money, and doesn’t want to do it.” His money, and then his lack of it, ruin his love life a couple of times over. Then he just sort of throws his hands up and the book ends.
Sometimes a novel is a “classic” because it is good, sometimes it is a “classic” even though it is not very good because it was popular in its time period and the author was famous. This book was the latter. There are some great pull quotes though, I’ll give it that. “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered” is so good I’ll put it on my wedding decor and hope nobody asks what I thought about the book.
Sometimes a novel is a “classic” because it is good, sometimes it is a “classic” even though it is not very good because it was popular in its time period and the author was famous. This book was the latter. There are some great pull quotes though, I’ll give it that. “They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered” is so good I’ll put it on my wedding decor and hope nobody asks what I thought about the book.