This is my first book review. F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
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@laurenceesposito33933 жыл бұрын
Very good review. Would love to hear more of your reviews. Also, I agree that the characters are directly taken from Fitzgerald’s life. Female lead especially as well as the protagonist. Would love to hear your thoughts on “Pride and Prejudice,” my all-time favorite!!! Have a great day!
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thanks. I'll be uploading more from now on!
@luv2sail662 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the review. I enjoyed Gatsby very much, but I thought “Tender is the Night” was much better.
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
They're both great, but incredibly different.
@DodgiiDune2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this review! Well done, I am convinced in reading this book now. Much appreciation
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thanks! It's certainly worth a read or two.
@dianaparadise7992 жыл бұрын
great book on the effects of incest (sexual abuse) trauma and its recovery, and on Diver's codependency and his need to be the most important saviour of the world, of wounded women. If only Dick and Nicole could have gone to 12-step meetings on these issues, learn more about their issues and accept taking life one day at a time, without being grandiose about themselves. And it was written 100 years ago, before we have learned a lot about these problems and recovery overcoming the problems. Yes, FSF's writing style is beautiful. In the movie BELOVED INFIDEL while he is working as a Hollywood script-writer, his director tells him, "Your writing is wonderful, but we can't film adjectives." Yet the movie TENDER IS THE NIGHT has great dialogue which conveys the complete meaning of the lyrical novel. Thanks for your review. "
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Beautifully said.
@ricardo531003 жыл бұрын
Correction: "Baby"was the controlling older sister of Nicole and not Rosemary Hoyt.
@blightedpinebooks3 жыл бұрын
Sorry, Rick. I misspoke. I'm new to book reviews, but I'll do my best to make sure to not miss a single detail in the next one.
@calicocat65712 жыл бұрын
This review was excellent! I watched the movie from 1961 and now I want to read the book. I suggest you continue with this channel.
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment! I'm finally settling in here in Tennessee, and will be updating regularly from now on!
@MonkeyBarsEveryday2 жыл бұрын
i was out for a walk and i found this book in a little library project box in the neighborhood. the first third was magical, the second was unraveling, and the final was bittersweet and heartbreaking 1:48 i enjoyed fitzgeralds exploration of being a young woman. it was kind of funny to me
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment! What a cool way to encounter Fitzgerald.
@blinkbones3236 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this review. It was the first book I read of FS Fitzgerald, not my choice (read it for school) but I really enjoyed it.
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Awesome. Thanks for the comment!
@julialindohf78283 жыл бұрын
Would you please do a follow-up video, on Save me the last Walz?
@blightedpinebooks3 жыл бұрын
That's a great idea. I'll put it on my reading list.
@anastaciamartinez5953 жыл бұрын
Loved your review, it inspired me to read the novel
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
That's awesome. Thank you.
@NA.1995.2 ай бұрын
thank you for the review .. im readint it right now :) .. translated to arabic.
@blightedpinebooks2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Hope you love it.
@MarcusCarnero4 жыл бұрын
Great review, man!👍🏽
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@mcpaplus3 жыл бұрын
Which version did you read ? There were two printings where the books were arranged differently. The story is great, but as a wannabe writer there are lines that are among some of the best ever written. I'm glad you expressed that too. When he describes the American women at a restaurant in Paris he says something along the lines of "their heads swayed above the collars of their manicured dresses, somewhat like daisies, somewhat like cobra's hoods." Genius. Also, the closing view of Dr Diver, at one point a top socialite in the whole world, is described as "practicing medicine in Syracuse, or Clear Lake. It is not clear, but from his last letters, he is certainly in some part of that state or another. " A totally devastating destruction of the protagonist. Also, good review! F Scott, Hemingway and Rand are among my most favorite authors.
@blightedpinebooks3 жыл бұрын
I read the original print of the book - before it was modified to make it more "palatable." Fitzgerald was famously frustrated with the novel's reception, but I think the original is closest to his artistic intention. I agree with you - and this book elevated my appreciation of Fitzgerald's writing. I wonder if Virgina Woolf wasn't an influence, as some passages contain the surreal, heady prose that makes her such a challenging and satisfying read. Dick Diver is definitely something of a self-portrait of Fitzgerald, and indeed, it's a heavy ending to the novel, and tells us a lot about where Fitzgerald was at nearing the end of his career. Rand is great as well - I read her Fountainhead last summer. Her writing I found a bit stilted, but she can weave a narrative like no one's business. I'm currently reading Franzen's "The Corrections" and will post a review soon. If you're an aspiring writer, his work is a fantastic muse. He's less plot-driven than Rand, and less romantic than Fitzgerald, but he captures modernity better than anyone I've read.
@user-it3rm7kg2x2 жыл бұрын
Hi, I am Japanese. Thanks you for nice review!
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Hey! Thank you!
@ninimimi29062 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this very interesting review!
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@jennyhirschowitz1999Ай бұрын
Seneca influences my life….. thank you.
@blightedpinebooks26 күн бұрын
Thanks for your comment! Stoicism is making a comeback for good reason!
@jennyhirschowitz199926 күн бұрын
@@blightedpinebooks Indeed, especially to give dignity and fortitude to your young generation so courageously protesting Free Palestine all over the world to negate the depravity of corporate extraction and corrupt US capitalism, creating warfare and chaos in every sphere. Currently re-reading Marx’s Grundrisse, Penguin paperback. I do have a few lovely Fitzgerald 1st editions in my library though. Take care of yourself and your mind. Miss Jenny
@natalya9821 Жыл бұрын
Best, wishes from Miscow. Subscribed.
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@justworship0570 Жыл бұрын
谢谢你
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
不客气
@katarinastankovic15263 жыл бұрын
ode to the nightingale ursula k
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
She's on my list to read more of - I've only read "The Left Hand of Darkness."
@natalya9821 Жыл бұрын
Hello. What' s your name?
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Kevin
@mojonproductions Жыл бұрын
I enjoyed your review. Fitzgerald pokes fun at Dick Diver for being an intellectual dandy. Similarly he satirizes Jay Gatsby when he describes Gatsby showing Daisy all his new shirts. Both instances seem like Fitzgerald is making fun of himself for values he might still hold. To me the fight scene you refer to with first the taxi drivers and then with the police is an unraveling brought on by Rosemary's admission that she has an Italian boyfriend and Diver's realization that he does not control the relationship anymore, if he ever did...sort of like his marriage to Nicole.
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thank you for the comment!
@noud41322 жыл бұрын
I’m here from YOU
@blightedpinebooks7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment!
@yazanasad781119 күн бұрын
Didn't see feminist subtext Scenes of violence, influence from ww1 - lost generation
@blightedpinebooks18 күн бұрын
Thank you for your comment. This was my first review, so please be somewhat forgiving.
@yazanasad781118 күн бұрын
@@blightedpinebooks no problem, I'm just echoing your comments in the videl, they are like my highlights of your video :)