| 
A Key West Bed and Breakfast....
Boasting an incomparable location at the midpoint of Duval Street, The Tropical Inn is a quiet and private island compound. You might walk down Key West's most famous promenade a hundred times and not notice this romantic hideaway, tucked unassumingly away just steps from all the bustle and excitement |
|
|
| This Side of Paradise (Modern Library Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Creator: Susan Orlean
Publisher: Modern Library
Category: Book
List Price: $5.95
Buy Used: $3.75
You Save: $2.20 (37%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 812147
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 0345481224
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345481221
ASIN: 0345481224
Publication Date: May 31, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Paradise Lost January 2, 1998
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is simply astounding--a cautionary tale of youth, of lost innocence, of the things we do when we don't know what to do. His hero, Amory Blaine, is a boy on a search for something--for meaning, for love, for the marrow of life itself. But like the people who characterized the era of "The Lost Generation," Amory is met with heartache and despair. Like Fitzgerald later wrote, "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." A must read for anyone still searching for themselves. It is moving, insightful, and filled with notable quoatables:"I'm in love with change, and I've killed my conscience"-Amory Blaine.
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald October 12, 1997
This first Fitzgerald novel is a brilliant telling of college life in the early twentieth century. Fitzgerald is a genius, inserting psychology and philosophy into his writing with ease. This book is extravagantly written with wonderful detail and a well developed protaginist. A book about egotism, this is a must-read for any reader. One of the best books all time. Pure Genius.
Like Salinger's Caulfield, we all can relate to Amory Baine September 29, 1997
A young middle-westerner walking in the great paths of Fitzgerald's Caraway and Blaine, not to mention Francis Scott himself, I found This Side of Paradise a brilliant illumination of human character and the subtleties of interactions between people. Who can ever forget such flippantly poignant lines as, "I'm afraid of you. I'm always afraid of a girl--until I've kissed her." Reading this book, you will find your mind alert, sensing your heart melt.
Nice September 16, 1997
It's a shame modern Princeton (or any other college) is not half as wondereful. Nice book, great in parts. It's a good thing Fitzgerald didn't graduate from Princeton, he never would have been even a halfway decent writer then.
Too Preppy!!! August 26, 1997
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This novel is concerned with the growth of Amory Blaine, a romantic egotist, into a true personage. It ends with Amory's declaration, "I know myself...but that's all." But what does that mean?The novel is okay. Amory reminds me of holden Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye. Holden believed in honesty and detested phony people and phony things, so he went all over the place trying to stay away from all the phoniness in the world. Amory is like Holden in the extent that they each had a journey which reveals to them new things and expands their horizons.What I don't like about the book is that Fitzgerald inserts numerous poems that he made up. They are put in inappropriate places and don't make a lot of sense. Also, every character in this book lives a luxurious life and looks beautiful and is pedantic and speak incredibly long and grammatically correct sentences. It is like Melrose Place (except the stuff about the long sentences). What enrages me more is the fact that at the end, even though Amory gains a greater knowlege, he still views the poor as stupid and unclean.
|
|
|
Powered by Our Keywest | |
