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A review by hilbohaggins
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.0
3.5 stars ...
Ok here's the deal ... I adore F. Scott Fitzgerald. His language is so brilliant and beautiful. He could write a book about absolutely nothing and I would totally dig it for his choice in vocabulary and his dramatic descriptions. But this book took me a while to get through. Like, 6 months to get through. That might just have been my fault for not having much time to give it the attention it could have deserved ? It definitely had its moments, mostly in the second half, but I just found the book to be a bit daunting to pick up. A lot of people have an issue with Fitzgerald's writing style being strictly focused on the dramatic, ritzy lives of the snobbish upper class in the 20s but that's never been an issue for me. That is who he was and I love it and read it for what it is. For me, the writing itself would have been 5 stars, but the plot for me was just a 3 star story.
Ok here's the deal ... I adore F. Scott Fitzgerald. His language is so brilliant and beautiful. He could write a book about absolutely nothing and I would totally dig it for his choice in vocabulary and his dramatic descriptions. But this book took me a while to get through. Like, 6 months to get through. That might just have been my fault for not having much time to give it the attention it could have deserved ? It definitely had its moments, mostly in the second half, but I just found the book to be a bit daunting to pick up. A lot of people have an issue with Fitzgerald's writing style being strictly focused on the dramatic, ritzy lives of the snobbish upper class in the 20s but that's never been an issue for me. That is who he was and I love it and read it for what it is. For me, the writing itself would have been 5 stars, but the plot for me was just a 3 star story.