This Side of Paradise (Abridged) Audiobook

" I had to force myself to finish this one. He gets pretty socialistic at the end. His writing is beautiful, but the story itself I found lacking. "

" While worth reading, I didn't love this book. Some passages were witty but, overall, I found the book shallow and affected. Maybe I just didn't "get it"? "

" I didn't want it ever to end. "

" I wanted to like this book so badly. I picked it up at the library and thought, I really loved and I do mean LOVED The Great Gatsby, and after reading the back cover about how this is a book about an undergraduate who has become somewhat disillusioned in his late teenage years, I thought I would easily identify with him. Unfortunately, this was not the case and throughout the book, I found myself asking what the purpose was. Even after finishing, I'm still not sure what it was...perhaps its meaning had gone over my head. "

" Obviously some kind of genius by age 23! "

" pretty good. different from other fitzgerald that i've read. there were a lot of literary and cultural references. reading on the kindle was nice because it was quick to look these up. many of them were fairly common. "

" My favorite of the Fitzgerald books. "

" Fantastic. Beautifully written, and stunningly still relevant. "

" Practically perfect. Like an American "Portrait of the Artist as a Young man" . Enjoyed it much more than Gatsby. Main character is so stuck up, full of himself and sentimental, yet i wasnt revolted. "

" The pacing of this book is what really threw me. Everything moved so quickly and characters came and went so fast that I had a hard time remembering who anybody was and thus never had a chance to care about any of the characters. "

" I was waiting for something to happen, when it did I was let down. Reminds me too much of Portrait of an Artist. Put me off Fitzgerald for a while "

" Fitzgeralds first novel and still a great read! "

" I tried, really I did. I just hated this book. "

" Not sure what to think. In parts, wickedly funny and cynical. Second half meandered. Pretty sure I didn't get it, despite quite a personal relevance in plot and structure. Amory lives inside his head, where I find increasingly little solace and he eventually, seemingly reposes. Def. no "Gatsby." "

" Really wanted to like this since I love his other books, but I was SO bored..... "

" I'm giving up on This Side of Paradise for a while. It's kind of like reading the Great Gatsby told from the perspective of Tom Buchanan instead of Nick Carraway. Amory Blaine is just not an appealing protagonist and he's not portrayed as an anti-hero either. "

" F. Scott was an original "bro", and this novel about his privileged life as a frat boy from an Ivy League school and his shenanigans didn't really do it for me. "

" Very interesting. At first I didn't understand what the point of the book was, but by the end I could see it. In some ways, kind of depressing for me. But very thoughtful. I liked it. "