Jefferson Publication: This Side of Paradise (Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)

from larson23

This book, compared to "The Great Gastby", wasn't nearly as good. I absolutely loved "The Great Gastby", but this book was more difficult for me to get into. I still enjoyed it, don't get me wrong, but it just didn't have the same spark that interested me. This book is a wonderful example of a ri...

from jkrejci

This, Fitzgerald's first book written at the tender age of 23, while in my opinion clearly his worst, hints at the enormous talent underlying some of his later masterpieces. This Side of Paradise is self-consciously autobiographical and has an unfortunate tendency towards pretentiousness and self...

from fuzzy_patters

A decent novel. You can see the effort to become the great novelist he would become, but it seems experimental and forced at times. Additionally, Fitzgerald's worldview at twenty-three seemed to be lacking in maturity, but it is not a bad coming of age story. I would liken it to Joyce's Portrait ...

from applemcg

Too much work. The poetry, and a play script section substituted for the narrative. I read it in a sense of obligation to Minnesota authors, including Sinclair Lewis, Bob Dylan, Garrison Keillor, Robert Bly, and by adoption Louise Erdrich. I pondered including this in my collection of Unfinished ...

from Ghost_Boy

I actually liked this novel quite a bit. It's not as good as The Great Gatsby, but it's worth the read if you enjoyed Fitzgerald's writing style. This Side of Paradise is his first novel originally published in 1920 and like his other works it's semiautobiographical. Yet this isn't much like The ...