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Do you like Fitzgerald's writing? Larry Send a noteboard - 22/06/2010 10:14:25 PM
Candidates that seem to be jumping up and down on the shelves, waiting to be picked, include:

Catch-22
Possession
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Volkogonov's biography of Trotsky
The Beautiful and the Damned
anything by Bunin
????????? (The Adolescent)



I ask because his Tender is the Night is my favorite, although This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned were enjoyable when I read them over a dozen years ago.

None of the other fictions on that list are bad. In fact, I believe I liked pretty much all of them equally.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Am I missing something about the Dresden Files? Tom - 22/06/2010 04:05:52 PM 583 Views
I haven't read them, but I understand they're not that deep, but fun, and get better as they go on. *NM* Legolas - 22/06/2010 04:23:20 PM 128 Views
I'm not really feeling the "fun" just yet. I'll finish this book, though. *NM* Tom - 22/06/2010 05:19:40 PM 177 Views
To be honest, the first two books are a bit formulaic beetnemesis - 22/06/2010 04:27:01 PM 389 Views
First three, for me Tavi - 22/06/2010 04:59:49 PM 372 Views
My time is valuable. I'm not giving an author three books of my time just to see if I like him. *NM* Tom - 22/06/2010 05:16:34 PM 163 Views
They're short books! *NM* Rebekah - 22/06/2010 05:20:43 PM 136 Views
That's true. I got through the first couple shortly. And, note, they're not BAD, they're just a bit beetnemesis - 23/06/2010 08:40:29 PM 318 Views
I stopped at the end of 3 (or 4), so maybe I'll start again *NM* Deadsy - 25/06/2010 12:00:46 PM 132 Views
The first book really isn't a good example of the series. Jacob - 22/06/2010 04:27:45 PM 371 Views
This is a good reply. *NM* Rebekah - 22/06/2010 05:10:21 PM 131 Views
I think the only way I would continue is if those "hints" are promising enough for me. Tom - 22/06/2010 05:19:06 PM 380 Views
Which is the way that it should be. Jacob - 22/06/2010 07:22:42 PM 322 Views
Not really Larry - 22/06/2010 05:52:22 PM 372 Views
I may abandon the read altogether and just read something else. Tom - 22/06/2010 06:24:36 PM 396 Views
Do you like Fitzgerald's writing? Larry - 22/06/2010 10:14:25 PM 348 Views
Yes. For reasons I can't even fathom. Tom - 23/06/2010 01:49:33 AM 327 Views
Jacob - 22/06/2010 07:23:24 PM 327 Views
Larry - 22/06/2010 08:47:20 PM 341 Views
Jacob - 23/06/2010 02:14:46 PM 329 Views
They grow up. nossy - 22/06/2010 10:05:37 PM 351 Views
Yeah...uh...I'm probably going to finish this book. Tom - 23/06/2010 01:50:19 AM 356 Views
Good idea. nossy - 23/06/2010 04:29:23 PM 323 Views
Let me clarify: the book may be finished at some point in some year. Tom - 23/06/2010 09:53:43 PM 330 Views
They are lovely. Rebekah - 23/06/2010 09:57:28 PM 308 Views
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