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  <title><![CDATA[The Love of the Last Tycoon]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt; &lt;I&gt;The Love of the Last Tycoon,&lt;/I&gt; edited by the preeminent Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli, is a restoration of the author's phrases, words, and images that were excised from the 1940 edition, giving new luster to an unfinished literary masterpiece. It is the story of the young Hollywood mogul Monroe Stahr, who was inspired by the life of boy-genius Irving Thalberg, and is an expos&#233; of the studio system in its heyday. &lt;I&gt;The Love of the Last Tycoon&lt;/I&gt; is now available for the first time in paperback.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not precisely sure why this book effected me the way it did, but it certainly did.  Fitzgerald finished writing the fifth chapter of this book before he had a heart attack and died.  When you get to the end of this unfinished novel, you find the last word one of the greatest American writers eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31510793">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Fitzgerald's last work before he died, and is incomplete. This authorised text version comes with a lot of preface and appendices, all designed to be extremely helpful to the Fitzgerald enthusiast.<br/><br/>That ain't me.<br/><br/>Aside from a couple of neat lines in <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6904620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39596631">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, Fitzgerald, Fitzy, Scott, F.  I kept putting this one off because I knew exactly how it would leave me, and I was exactly right.  As much as I love <em>Gatsby</em>, as much as I love <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46164.Tender_Is_the_Night" title="Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald">Tender is the Night</a></em> and the short stories and the essays and every wastebasket scrap he's ever written, this would have be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39596631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Monroe Stahr, the hero of Fitzgeralds final (and unfinished) novel, is perhaps the most realistic of all Fitzgerald's heroes. He is, when you get down to it, a realistic Jay Gatsby. The novel itself are mere smatterings of episodes and chapters, edited together to create a narrative that is cut off ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65428852">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;vamos a suponer que debe de construirse un camino a través de una montaña... para tender la vía del tren, y dos o tres topógrafos, más otras personas, te dan sus informes y tu tienes confianza en unos sí y en otros no, y parece haber una media docena de posibilidades para abrir ese camin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63722523">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a terrific half novel and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course being obsessed with &quot;making pictures&quot; myself didn't hurt my appreciation of the story. But even if I wasn't movie-crazed, the book would still appeal just as strongly--Fitzgerald has a wonderful way of balancing his lyric...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58127640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Juillet 1935, tremblement de terre en Californie, les studios d'Hollywood sont inondés.<br/><br/> Le jeune producteur prodige Monroe Stahr assiste au sauvetage de deux promeneuses égarées. <br/><br/>L'une d'elles ressemble étrangement à son épouse disparue, la star Minna Davis. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66404743">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's unfortunate that Fitzgerald never had the chance to finish this book. He got as far as offering an aromatic sniff and minuscule taste of the meal he was preparing, but nothing more. Based on the notes provided in the edition I have, it sounds like it would have been a wonderfully tragic tale.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54822771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37401925">
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like it was appropriate that since Fitzgerald never finished writing this book, I shouldn't finish reading it. Also, it bored me. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though the writing is gorgeous, after all it was Fitzgerald, the man could write a sentence better than anyone before or possibly since, but a surprisingly cold, and bitter tale of old Hollywood, reflecting Fitzgerald's own unhappy period in Tinseltown. This edition has a sort of finished ending to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55963393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Restored my confidence that I actually liked F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing and that my love of _The Great Gatsby_ is not a fluke, after I read and hated _Tender is the Night._  Going in, you have to accept that this is an unfinished work, Fitzgerald's last before he died, but the writing and imagery...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65070004">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jun 12 14:07:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Would t'were that my rough drafts were even half as good as this last, unfinished novel of Fitzgeralds. I first fell in love with his writing as a teenager and I thought I would outgrow him at some point, as I have other writers from that time in my life.<br/><br/>Not so.<br/><br/>In fact, I've ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57486581">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's imperfect but wonderful for this very reason. And it's got the best dialogue about creating stories:<br/><br/>&quot;But let's imagine something that isn't either dialogue or<br/>jumping down a well. Has your office got a stove in it that lights with a match?&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;I think it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36465237">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27680216">
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    <body><![CDATA[As a stand alone work (this is an unfinished novel), the book does not hold up.  But as a glimpse into the writing process of a literary genius, it is a stunning work.  This is the book I wish he had finished before dying.  The most polished pieces of the book, the first few chapters, are some of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27680216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11171077">
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    <body><![CDATA[A worthy read that really gives you a feel of the behind-the-scenes struggle of writing a novel. Fitzgerald died before finishing this Western/Hollywood story and he was still playing with the narration. According to his biographer, who pulled together the edition I read, Fitzgerald wanted to weave ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11171077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never had to read any F. Scott Fitzgerald in high school, and all I knew about him was that he wrote <em>The Great Gatsby</em>. In an English class in college, though, a teacher went on and on about the textual studies of <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46164.Tender_Is_the_Night" title="Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald">Tender is the Night</a></em>. As soon as the quarter was over and I had free time, I read <em>TItN...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2614798">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was blown away by this book, mostly because I had an idea in my head (from a high school English teacher) that nothing Fitzgerald wrote besides The Great Gatsby, was any good. I unfairly pictured him as a dissipated alcoholic, creatively washed-up and writing merely to fund his lifestyle. Not only...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1907536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unfortunately I did not read this copy of this novel, I read just The Last Tycoon, which is hardcover and i making me wonder whether or not it could be worth something because it is pretty old.<br/>As far as what is inside of this edition...wasn't all that great. That is not to say that is could ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27188958">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didnt like this book. I chose this book because the author was proclaimed one of the best in the world but until I found out he wrote this book when he was dying and someone more than likely finished it for him I had realized this book must not have been a complete work. I kept reading it because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52760649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I loved The Great Gatsby, this was Fitzgerald's last novel and it is unfinished.  Thus, the story has many holes and it ends with no concrete resolution.  I enjoyed the premise of the story taking place in Hollywood in the 1930s, and the character development was rich, but in the end this is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45585007">more...</a>]]></body>
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