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    <body><![CDATA[Curiously when F. Scott Fitzgerald died, ‘The Pat Hobby Stories’ was the only volume of his work then in print. How things change. As far as I can tell the last version was published a long fourteen years ago and the stories have been pretty much left to languish in obscurity.<br/><br/>This is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69651852">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Rarely has a prologue had such an impact on a collection of stories. Echoing throughout my entire reading session like a baby on an international flight, the prologue saves The Pat Hobby Stories from merely being amusing. The most interesting aspect of the collection is to consider the order of publ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51163500">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my cup of tea, they're about a former sought-after writer in Hollywood who is down on his luck at the age of 49 and would do anything on the lots to make car payments, pay the rent, and buy some food.  Written in the style of movies of the 30's, the stories are actually part of Fitzgerald's life...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19258804">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These are funny.  Fitzgerald, I think shortly before his death, while living in Los Angeles, was working on movies during the week and short stories on the weekends.  The Atlantic published the stories.  Pat Hobby is a writer who is not a very good writer.  I think the joke Fitzgerald uses is that w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/220465">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to read short stories after something on the long side, I dunno, to give my brain a little rest I guess.  And I love this collection of shorts because I love Pat Hobby, a failed alcoholic writer who every day proves that he is his own worst enemy, that he makes his own bad luck.  I dunno, may...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16350384">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this sadly was my least favorite thing i have read my fitzgerald. I just couldn't get into it - and it seemed so defeatest. I missed the hope and excitement of his earlier short stories. Still the character of Pat Hobby is a funny one and fully developed and both fun and tragicto watch in several si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6497433">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far the intro of how these stories were written and why is quite interesting.  The stories themselves are good, but not amazing work.  I do like that Pat Hobby is such a creep though.  Amusing.<br/><br/>A great read for the current writer situation in Hollywood and beyond.  This guy really has ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7302696">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Poor Pat Hobby. He's not only a down-on-his luck writer, but he's just plain unlucky.<br/><br/>These are great short stories. You often can't help but feel sad for Pat and all of his bad luck in Hollywood and in his life. <br/><br/>4.5 stars]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> A fascinating study in self-satire that brings to life the Hollywood years of F. Scott Fitzgerald <p> The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in <em>Esquire</em> magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. &quot;This was not art&quot; Pat Hobby often said, &quot;this was an industry&quot; where whom &quot;you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office.&quot; <p> The Pat Hobby sequence, as Arnold Gingrich writes in his introduction, is Fitzgerald's &quot;last word from his last home, for much of what he felt about Hollywood and about himself permeated these stories.&quot;</p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fitzgerald's stories about a desperate out-of-work screenwriter are more like sitcom episodes than fully-formed stories. But it's a pretty good sitcom.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a feeliing Fitzy based the character of Pat Hobby a bit on himself towards the end of his career and life. Great, as usual :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Minor but highly enjoyable Fitzgerald. Pat Hobby is a terrible screenwriter who has no idea how terrible he is.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always loved these stories and enjoy coming back to them every decade or so. They're sly, funny, astute.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hard times descend; deterioration exposed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How Hollywood really works...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sad and funny, I liked it.]]></body>
    
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