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  <title><![CDATA[Tales of the Jazz Age]]></title>
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  <default_description>Commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, these essays present a middle-aged Fitzgerald looking back on the era he came to epitomize. This book of five confessional essays from the 1930s follows Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda from the height of their celebrity as the darlings of the 1920s to years of rapid decline leading to the self-proclaimed &quot;Crack Up&quot; in 1936. The poetics of Fitzgerald\'s style are not lost in nonfiction, and these pieces display some of his finest writing. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1922</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really starting to wonder why everything that Fitzgerald wrote was wretched and puerile with the exception of Gatsby, which was magnificent.  Tales of the Jazz age is not a good collection of stories.  None of them are entertaining or evocative, and there's something fundamentally shallow and cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62977573">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 09 09:41:21 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 09 09:43:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I only read one story from this book.  I read The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.  It was very short and there was no development of the characters.  Benjamin lived a sad, lonely life with no one really caring for him.  His family didn't even care for him.  Not worth reading.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 16 17:39:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 21 15:44:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Great Gatsby" title=" The Great Gatsby"> The Great Gatsby</a> is one of my favorite novels of all time, so I was kind of bummed to find this collection of short stories—the first examples of Fitzgerald’s short fiction I’ve read since high school—rather underwhelming. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood, but nothing in here electri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37901369">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Mar 05 16:17:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this selection of short stories!  I am unfamiliar with what the &quot;jazz age&quot; is actually meant to refer to, aside from the actual time period, but I really thought that these stories were timeless.  I am ashamed to admit that this is the first time I've read F. Scott Fitzgerald, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16679253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51774184">
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  <read_at>Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been wanting to read this collection for a while because it contained the short story &quot;Benjamin Button&quot;, upon which the movie was based. Unfortunately, I was fairly disappointed in that particular story, as it felt so inconsequential and lackluster.<br/><br/>There were a few stories...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51774184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46074290">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't recall ever reading anything of F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings, before.  Now that I have, prompted by the movie 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', which was based on Fitzgerald's short story of the same name (included in this volume), I will count him among my favorite (short) story tell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46074290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50201772">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Mar 23 16:05:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A full online copy of this book is available from Google Books. I noticed a few typos, but the price was right.]]></body>
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    <review id="42791171">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like Fitzgerald's writing, and his short stories were very interesting.  The last few were a little repetitive, I thought, concerning as they did sad young couples with young children falling apart, but overall there was a very interesting mix of New York socialite stories, stories with som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42791171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58707244">
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  <read_at>Sat Jun 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jun 27 14:19:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite.  I often found myself checking to see how much longer a story was... not really a good sign.  Maybe some of the writing was really good, even still I found the subject matter boring and the characters dull.  I will never read Fitzgerald again.  It's just not worth the time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book w/ 3 rather short stories.  Each are interesting and thought provoking.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved &quot;The Diamond as Big as the Ritz&quot; and &quot;The Curious Case of Benjamin Button&quot;]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Feb 01 17:42:11 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Was inpired to read this after seeing &quot;The curious case of Benjamin Button&quot;]]></body>
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    <review id="46394343">
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[actually i only read the story about benjamin button , although i did not see this movie, but &quot;doubt&quot; with meryl streep, great actress, great film! i might read the others later as he is really a brilliant writer (i only read &quot;gatsby&quot; a long time ago...)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 02 21:08:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love f. scott's short stories because each one manages to bring new characters to life, all of whom seem similar at first but become distinct in their own ways. each character is doing fine until a problem rises up like a spike from the ground and it's interesting to watch how fitzgerald uses this...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19676275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65366713">
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    <body><![CDATA[Didn't love every story but definitely worth a read.]]></body>
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    <review id="50478127">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not really a fan of short stories in general.  Their main attraction for me is that they're a good option when you want something that can be picked up and set down at ready intervals (which was quite hard to do with Tolkein, say).  The page constraint limits the richness and depth of the charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50478127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68323120">
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    <body><![CDATA[Great of course]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book to read on my last trip.  The short short stories are about the right length for my in-flight attention span.  Most of the stories have a tidy ending with a twist of irony.  My favorites are The Offshore Pirate and Head and Shoulders.  I love Fitzgeralds writing style.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42013154">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WILftB: That F.S.F.'s &quot;Fantasies&quot; are either impenetrable  or inscrutable--or perhaps both--without the assistance of gin. Hmm, the F'ing Scott: gin, absinthe (w/ sugar, of course), garnish with sprig of rosemary--for remembering...erhm...something?--Oh, yes, the third cocktail element: wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33412616">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't crazy about the fantasies, but loved the rest. So smart. I especially liked May Day.  I am reminded why I loved Fitzgerald in high school.  I want to pick up The Great Gatsby again soon.  Something tells me there it will be much different reading it as a real grown up.]]></body>
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