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A review by brianbasketball
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.0
I liked the writing style a lot and some of the messages felt very well explored, like the search for something meaningful that can also make you money. There is a cool exploration of growing through adolescence and college and bouncing between theories and philosophies on the world and life and love and yapping about them like you know anything outside of the bubble you've come from.
I think there is a lot of commentary on the time it was written about the state of literature that doesn't resonate with the current day. If I was more well-read on those authors and much more passionate about poetry some of the references and interspersed poems would have made more sense.
Still, it was cool to see him finish the story with a semblance of what I take to be hope based solely on the foundation of knowing himself, even tho he is penniless and homeless and without a family or a direction in life. "I know myself, and that is all."
I think there is a lot of commentary on the time it was written about the state of literature that doesn't resonate with the current day. If I was more well-read on those authors and much more passionate about poetry some of the references and interspersed poems would have made more sense.
Still, it was cool to see him finish the story with a semblance of what I take to be hope based solely on the foundation of knowing himself, even tho he is penniless and homeless and without a family or a direction in life. "I know myself, and that is all."