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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-05 08:14:51.
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Slower in pace than Gatsby but the painstaking chronicle of one man's decline is brilliant nonetheless.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-09-02 15:05:30.
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glittering novel with a spectacular shift in perspective from one character to another so that you are left guessing who this book is really about until the very end.. the original structure definitely works and revised copies with the sections rearranged are poor by comparision.. subtlety underpins the narrative and words are not wasted completing scenes or setting a context.. highly recommended!
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A reader posted a review at 2009-08-13 15:57:33.
(Language: English)
dont know why i ven bought it
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-19 14:30:55.
(Language: English)
Reading it again almost twenty years later, I can appreciate its subtleties more. Fitzgerald can paint a scene with delicate strokes. Still, the middle of "Tender is the Night" sags a bit, and toward the end we expect our anti-hero to meet a more dramatic end than obscurity. Still, a great read, and no doubt gives tremendous insight to Fitzgerald's own dramatic life.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-17 10:37:36.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-06-08 13:06:19.
(Language: English)
Read this last month and found I kept postponing the moment I had to review it because I didn't know what to write about it. Let me start by saying that there are two editions of Tender Is the Night: the book was originally published as a narrative with a non-linear sequence of events, but an edition issued after Fitzgerald's death was restructured - based on the writer's own notes - so that the events are recounted in the order in which they happen. The one I read was the latter. I don't know whether it is because of this re-arranging of events in a chronological order that I found the first third-or-so of the book particularly tiresome. The plot wasn't going anywhere, the characters were not particularly engaging at best - downright dull at worst - and I was particularly annoyed with Fitzgerald's writing style. I felt that he kept hinting at some life-altering truth beneath his words but he just won't get it out in the open and be done with it. He kept tantalizing the reader: overanalyzing, it seemed, the surface of the matter when he could have gotten to its rotten core in no time. Having decided I will not give up on the novel yet, I kept on reading until it started to grow on me. Not in the sense of some sort of love or emotional bond with the book being born, but in the sense of a delicate, deeper sense of appreciation. Having finished the book and looking back on it...I never did get to love the Divers. But had I given up on it halfway through I would still think, for example, that Dick Diver is a boring stereotype. Now I know him to be none other than Dick Diver: ambitious psychiatrist, drunkard, troublemaker, self-obsessed, disturbed, pitiable, enviable, talented, kind, mean, manipulative, money-loving, selfless, caring, insightful - and a hundred other things at once. I know Nicole to be Nicole and Rosemary to be Rosemary. And I do feel I'm a slightly better person for having gotten to know them; for experiencing the complex relationships, the subtle characterizations, the conflicting feelings, the underlying melancholy of the book. I still don't love any of the characters; but wouldn't dream of saying they are dull. I still don't like Fitzgerald's writing style; but wouldn't dream of saying it is bad. I'm still not sure I like this book; but wouldn't dream of saying I wish I hadn't read it.
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Janice posted a review at 2009-04-23 11:29:06.
(Language: English)
I didn't like as well as his others.
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Barbara posted a review at 2009-04-23 00:35:40.
(Language: English)
LOVED IT- REREAD IT YEARS LATER- LOVED IT MORE
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Sarah posted a review at 2009-04-13 04:38:18.
(Language: English)
Couldn't get into this - too slow ... which is a shame as I loved The Great Gatsby.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-04-09 16:03:41.
(Language: English)
Dick Diver and Nicole are likable people coming unglued, seeing their lives destroyed and watching nobody care. Beautiful prose and heartbreaking characterizations, American idealism as a fragile thing and not impervious to the destructive power of money, perception versus reality, superficiality versus excess, strength of character versus fear & weakness, and uncontrollable madness versus self-induced self-destruction. This is one of those books that etches itself into your head and heart, transcending time and place to leave you with quite unforgettable images. I'm sure I will return to this many times. If you haven't read it do, quite simply one of the best books I have ever read.
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