Negative Positive
Title: The Great American PC Bore
Review: Wouldn't read Fitzgerald after the obligatory HS Gatsby tour. Boring progressive high school teachers of course praise a "cautionary tale" that warns about the "meaninglessness" of the "American Dream" (progressive trademark attached to that phrase) as if there were a mass disorder everyone who doesn't subscribe to their pablum suffers from.Then, I read the short stories collected in Flappers and Philosophers and a couple of novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned. Well, Fitzgerald had quite the cool imagination. I tried to re-read Gatsby to see if my opinion had changed.Leave Gatsby to those who think The Catcher In The Rye is a great book. Catcher was written by a phony using the subjective voice of a phony adolescent surrounded by straw-phonies. Fitting choice of protagonist.Nick C. is not much of an improvement on Holden C.Fitzgerald can really write, so 2 stars. Read Flappers and Philosophers, This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Damned instead.
Is the review positive or negative? 