Er, that said, I tried to reread This Side of Paradise recently and found it embarassing and ridiculous. So maybe it's a teenage thing?
@nickhunebrown Well, Fitzgerald was a wildly uneven writer. Some of his stuff is just florid popular fiction, other times he's better.
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@HeerJeet Yeah, and that particular book is written by a young person nostalgic for being slightly younger. Teens like that kinda thing. -
@nickhunebrown Well, the pathology of nostalgia was Fitzgerald's great subject. He was mourning end of the Jazz Age while it was going on
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