Title: Not very good
Product review: These stories about a has been screenwriter are much lauded by some, but there is a reason they are so forgotten. A product of Fitzgerald's last couple of years when he had fallen to being a second tier hack screenwriter at Universal, they are proof that he was not really capable of more near the end.The stories are of a comic nature with the main character of Pat Hobby serving as their punchline. Hobby is an unappealing self-pitying schlub of a character, and much of the humor is of a nasty and cartoonishly meanspirited variety. It all reads like warmed over Nathaniel West without the warmth or vivacity, it is genuine hack work. Fitzgerald may be a great writer but there is a reason that his reputation ends with the 1920s.
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