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Summary: Entirely Underrated... you have to appreciate Fitzgerald
Review: This is my second reading of Fitzgerald, and I was just as captured by this story as "The Great Gatsby". Anthony and Gloria Patch portray a story of unexpected love, excess, lust, and the many facets of marriage. Fitzgerald's description is immaculate, something many authors have sought to recreate but rarely match. The supporting cast of characters in this novel possess as much livelihood as do the Patches. An honest story, and well worth your time, especially Fitzgerald fans.
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Summary: Another great
Review: This is perhaps Fitzgerlad's most touching and beautiful work. He is one of the very few novelist who has the ability to draw the reader in and make him feel the story personaly. Fitzgerald's lyrical flow will sweep up any intelectual reader and forever change him.
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Summary: Tragic Youth
Review: This was my first Fitzgerald book and I was unable to put it down. He takes us on an adventure through two peoples lives - people with hopes and dreams and what they believe is a promising future. He grafically describes the events throughout Anthony and Gloria's life together, portraying not only a rich society, but the lowest of societies. He entwined characters in ways that will make you always remember them. I picked it up and couldn't put it down.
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Summary: One of Fitzgerald's most underated novels
Review: THis work is absollutely brilliant. Althoug it often gets lost when compared to Fitzgeralds other works, it is still among the best works that arose from the 'lost generation.' Although it follows, in many ways, fitzgerald's usual style, it is very different from his other works. This is a true classic and a must read for any fan of modernism.
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Summary: Having it all Can Ultimately End in Having Nothing!
Review: To begin with, I need to say that this is no "Great Gatsby." Having said that, I will give my opinion of F. Scott Fitzgerald's, "The Beautiful and the Damned." It is a very good example of two lives lived without faith in God. Instead, Anthony Patch places his faith in millions he expects to inherit, while his wife has faith in the money and her beauty. It is clear that Fitzgerald writes from experience as he describes many of the struggles of becoming a writer as well as the struggle with alcoholism. Anthony Patch fully expected to inherit millions from his religiously devout uncle. His uncle disinherited him because of his immoral behavior and Anthony and Gloria end up in a desperate lawsuit throughout the book, hoping to change the courts initial decision. In that process, they are on a downward spiral in their relationship, relationships with friends, and their self esteem. I was reminded of the Biblical story of Job as I read the book. As Job had it all in the beginning, so did Anthony. As Job had it all taken away, so did Anthony. As Job's friends looked down upon him in his condition, so did Anthony's friends. Even Job's wife turned on him. Anthony's wife despised him as well. Then comes the difference. Job never lost faith in his God, but Anthony Patch never had faith. In the end, Job was rewarded with more blessings than he had ever had before. At the end of Anthony Patch's life, he got the blessing he had always longed for, but he was too far gone to enjoy it. I found it sad and depressing at times but it is worth the read. It's a look into the life of Fitzgerald and the age of World War I. It also reminds us that we can have all the world's goods and still have nothing, if we have ignored God in this life.
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Summary: The Beautiful and Damned -- Damned Beautiful!
Review: We're coming into an age referred to by many as the "Cocktail Nation," and our youth is experimenting with swing dancing, swing music, making bathtub absinthe, and trying to recreate the air of my most favorite decade of all times: the roaring '20s. "The Beautiful and Damned," is by far the best work by the man who almost single-handedly created the image of the flapper. F. Scott Fitzgerald was as much the voice of his generation as we claim modern alternative musicians are the voice of ours.
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