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Title: This Side Of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West
ISBN: 0-684-84378-1
Publisher: Scribner
Pub. Date: 14 July, 1998
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $12.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (74 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: A flawless novel that really makes you think
Comment: This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the best books I've read, period. Fitzgerald's masterful use of the language is stunning. He approaches Shakespeare in technical skill and his ability to express with precisely the right words what his characters are thinking and feeling. The self-exploration of Amory Blaine as he grows from a child to a young man is exquisite. He epitomizes the lost generation that I enjoyed identifying with in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. It is intellectually stimulating but not boring, exciting but not full of action. An excellent work.

Rating: 5
Summary: Unperfected Prose... A Perfect Story
Comment: Reading some of these reviews has proven to be depressing - in the sense that everyone is focusing on the youthful 'flaws' of this novel. Perhaps it is not comparable in brilliance to Gatsby - but kids-Fitzgerald was a rarest of species-he was a literary genius and Gatsby was his masterpiece! 'This Side'...may have been his first attempt out but never the less a marvelous portrait of being young in the 20th Century. It's shameful that people constantly compare this story to Gatsby, his Sistine Chapel of novels. No, this is simply a terrific story - and it truly is. Amory Blaine is an exceedinlgy likeable protagonist(something all the 'young hip'writers of today seem to forget to have), his images are portraits and his prose are just beginning to blossom. Indeed, this a youthfully 'flawed' novel by a young genius - which still equals an excellent work of fiction. - Oh, and if one reads this book and does not like Amory Blaine, that someone either forgot what it was to be young - or simply doesn't want to be reminded. Ciao.

Rating: 4
Summary: Beautiful book for the young, or young at heart
Comment: This was one of my favorite books when I was 15 years old. I read it several times and carried it with me around the dreary halls of the oppresive, boring land called High School. Even as a kid I sensed Fitzgerald's amazing writing gift: his effortless way of painting a visual picture in the mind of the reader. He was always extremely funny, off-beat and his charactizations are usually on the mark. Though Amory Blaine's psyche wanders a trifle after the first hundred pages, it's impossible not to gravitate towards him, the things he says and the stunts he pulls.

After 25 years I picked up the book again recently. Dusting off my old copy, I re-read the pages that had so captivated me as a teenager. Time dulls many things and people change. But I still love the book and think it's a brilliant first novel. Though it's sappy in spots and it definitely lags at the end, Fitzgerald still had a beautiful ability to harness the emotions of the reader into a world now vanished. It's not his most complete or mature work by a wide margin, but it matters not. This is still a great book, especially for young people or those still a kid at heart.

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