F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night BOOK REVIEW

[@luv2sail66]

Thank you for the review. I enjoyed Gatsby very much, but I thought “Tender is the Night” was much better.

[@blightedpinebooks]

They're both great, but incredibly different.

[@ricardo53100]

Correction: "Baby"was the controlling older sister of Nicole and not Rosemary Hoyt.

[@blightedpinebooks]

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.

[@laurenceesposito3393]

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!

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thanks. I'll be uploading more from now on!

[@dianaparadise799]

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. "

[@blightedpinebooks]

Beautifully said.

[@MonkeyBarsEveryday]

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

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thanks for the comment! What a cool way to encounter Fitzgerald.

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

Seneca influences my life….. thank you.

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thanks for your comment! Stoicism is making a comeback for good reason!

[@jennyhirschowitz1999]

@@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

[@calicocat6571]

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.

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thanks for your comment! I'm finally settling in here in Tennessee, and will be updating regularly from now on!

[@NA.1995.]

thank you for the review .. im readint it right now :) .. translated to arabic.

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thank you! Hope you love it.

[@julialindohf7828]

Would you please do a follow-up video, on Save me the last Walz?

[@blightedpinebooks]

That's a great idea. I'll put it on my reading list.

[@user-it3rm7kg2x]

Hi, I am Japanese. Thanks you for nice review!

[@blightedpinebooks]

Hey! Thank you!

[@natalya9821]

Hello. What' s your name?

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Kevin

[@DodgiiDune]

Thank you for this review! Well done, I am convinced in reading this book now. Much appreciation

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thanks! It's certainly worth a read or two.

[@blinkbones3236]

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.

[@blightedpinebooks]

Awesome. Thanks for the comment!

[@katarinastankovic1526]

ode to the nightingale ursula k

[@blightedpinebooks]

She's on my list to read more of - I've only read "The Left Hand of Darkness."

[@ninimimi2906]

Thank you for this very interesting review!

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thank you!

[@mcpaplus]

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.

[@blightedpinebooks]

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.

[@MarcusCarnero]

Great review, man!👍🏽

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thank you!

[@anastaciamartinez595]

Loved your review, it inspired me to read the novel

[@blightedpinebooks]

That's awesome. Thank you.

[@natalya9821]

Best, wishes from Miscow. Subscribed.

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thank you!

[@mojonproductions]

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.

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thank you for the comment!

[@noud4132]

I’m here from YOU

[@blightedpinebooks]

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[@justworship0570]

谢谢你

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[@yazanasad7811]

Didn't see feminist subtext Scenes of violence, influence from ww1 - lost generation

[@blightedpinebooks]

Thank you for your comment. This was my first review, so please be somewhat forgiving.

[@yazanasad7811]

@@blightedpinebooks no problem, I'm just echoing your comments in the videl, they are like my highlights of your video :)