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Ah the roaring 20s! The Great War (WWI) is over. The stock market is going gang busters; its crash is yet to come. The Great Depression is looming in the not too distant future, but of course no one knows that. What's a rich, shallow, American to do but hang out in Europe and behave badly???
Earlier this week I heard on the news that narcissism is on the rise. I looked down at Mr. Fitzgerald in my hand and thought surely the person on television telling me this is not a student of history. Tender ...more
Earlier this week I heard on the news that narcissism is on the rise. I looked down at Mr. Fitzgerald in my hand and thought surely the person on television telling me this is not a student of history. Tender ...more
Recommended by Professor Nancy Parker.
The French Riveria, Hollywood stars, expatriotes, drunkards, and a complete understanding of the human mind. I read this book three times and will probably read it again in a couple of years. Has to have the best ending ever, the summing up of a character's life/failure in two paragraphs putting the whole story in perspective.
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Well... I'm a sucker for tragic love but this moved me even less than The Great Gatsby. In theory this would have been great with the mad wife and all but somehow Fitzgerald manages to keep me at a long distance from both the story and the characters.
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Nov 17, 2007
Kim
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Jim Zubricky
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