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Title: Somebody should just slap this twit
Review: Few have had the balls to call this book the pretentious pseudo-intellectual twaddle that it is. Amory, a spoiled rich boy, goes to the best schools mommy can buy, but squanders his time there partying and worrying about the cut of his clothes, while becoming a smug, poetry spouting phony. After an undistinguished hitch in the army, he realizes he is too good to work, and toys with several women while becoming an alcoholic and subjecting the reader to lots of bad poetry. Finally, he turns into a political bore, spewing Fitzgerald's socialist propaganda, and wanders the earth insulting innocent people.An episode in one of Amory's shallow affairs, in which he and his girl-squeeze of the moment take a break from reciting poetry at each other to wallow in sociopathic self pity after she has murdered her horse in a narcissistic fit, is particularly disturbing.
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