Babylon Revisited [UNABRIDGED] (Audio CD)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Read in November, 2007
I read a lot of Fitzgerald in my early 20s, so I thought I should go back and revisit him, particularly to get a handle on how he constructed his short stories. I found myself far less impressed than I had been in the past. Many of the stories felt quite dated, and their concerns seemed somewhat silly to me. However, even in these stories, many of which were obviously written in a hurry for the money, there are these flourishes of absolute beauty in the language. The stories I found to stand the...more
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Read in January, 1993
i don't know if this book truly deserves five stars because some stories like "May Day" don't hold up as well on a revisit to this book. when i read this in highschool and i ate up every story. but for me that story tries too hard and relies on cliches of fitzgerald, "the superficial, rich beauty" and the "head over heels idealist". plus the title is too heavy, ruining the ending in my opinion. it would be like having a story about giving up a child for adoption...more
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Read in January, 2008
I'm a big fan of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and this one didn't disappoint. Some of the stories, such as May Day, The Rich Boy, and Babylon Revisited, cover similar ground to his novels (i.e., Princeton and Yale graduates in New York in the 1920s and expat Americans living it up in Paris in the 1920s) but a couple of them were more surprising. Ice Palace deals with North-South issues around the turn of the century, and The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a fun anti-government-rich-freaks-in-Montana stor...more
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Read in May, 2008
10 installments of tales overrun with the beautiful and suicidally rich who always drink one too many gin and tonics to drown out that god-forsaken past that one can never get over...these are like dark american fairy-tales for the first part of the twentieth century that never end happily...
stories actually worth noting: the ice palace, the diamond as big as the ritz, the rich boy, babylon revisted, the long way out...
stories actually worth noting: the ice palace, the diamond as big as the ritz, the rich boy, babylon revisted, the long way out...
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About a recovering alcoholic's return to Paris, the city that led to his unravelling and a host of bitter feelings betweeen him and his dead wife's sister and her husband. He wishes to be reunited with his child, Honoria, but his sister-in law is haunted by his past addiction and neglect. Knowing about Fitzgerald's own struggles with alcohol and penchant for benders in Paris, this story must have been very personal for him.
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Read in January, 2008
Lots of romantic New York City and surrounding area type of stories that I couldn't really get into. There was one really sweet one though of this family that lived completely off the map and live in an incredible palace atop a golden mountain and have to kill anybody that's ever invited there because no one can rat them out. Somehow they used magnets to make sure the US Geological Survey completely bypassed their place.
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Read in April, 2008
If you're like me, a southern bell (or gentleman) who has strayed from your roots and ventured North in search of lights, actions, life, dignity, and an over-priced standard of living, you will appreciate F. Scott's stories even more for their truth, passion, and recognition of the smooth, hazy, humid, delicacies of the South.
And if you're not, you probably wouldn't understand, but go ahead and read anyway.
And if you're not, you probably wouldn't understand, but go ahead and read anyway.
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Read in July, 2007
The stories collected here move chronologically from his early years to his later. As he gets closer to his death, the stories get shorter, more depressing, and less interesting. The first half of the book is full of writing that actually puts Great Gatsby to shame. Stories like May Day and A Diamond As Big as the Ritz are among some of the best works i've ever read. If only all the stories had been this good.
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Read in June, 2007
recommends it for:
fitzgerald lovers.
I'm only on the forth story and already I love this book and cannot figure out why it's taken me so long to discover it; it hasn't received its proper acclaim. Each story is unique and charimatic and all of the characters draw you in just as with The Great Gatsby. You can really start to imagine being young 80 years ago.
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I really liked this story as a short story but I didn't like any of the characters. I wish that Fitzgerald had explained some of the topics discussed in the story in further depth because it would have made a bit more sense. Other than that I would suggest reading this.
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I read this because Kevin Spacey was cited in a magazine as reading it. "A Diamond as big as the Ritz" has character, but overall, the stories lack. They don't hit. The style doesn't conform to short story writing.
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Read in January, 2005
This is my favorite short story in my favorite short story collection! Seems highly fictional but rings with truth and gives reader a nostalgic feeling for something lost that we can all relate to...
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Read in January, 1995
My first book of Fitzgerald's. Just re-read a few of the stories not too long ago. He definately had a bitter layer that pervades his writing. He brings the reader in and always has some effect.
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If you have read Fitzgerald novels but not his short stories, give them a try. I often think he wrote better short stories than novels ("Great Gatsby" excepted).
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pretty much ridiculous. read The Diamond As Big As The Ritz and Winter Dreams. Will pretty much change your life, especially the first one.
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I found a tattered copy of this book in my dad's discarded "college-years" boxes when I was thirteen. I've loved it ever since.
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Yum! You know when you are in the hands of a pro like Fitzgerald. These are stories about my favorite time, 1920's, 1930's.
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The other stories can be uneven, but the titular "Babylon Revisited" might be the best short story I've ever read.
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A great collection of Fitzgerald's short stories. All with his great talent of description.
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this is one of my very favorite collections of short stories ever. it might be my favorite.
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