28 stories from the earlier to the late writing phases

A bit of a disappointment. Mostly stories about love among college-age upper-class people in the 1920s and 1930s. Page after page of dialogue became wearying; skipped a few of the stories. ( )

Last Kiss and Love in the Night are just special. His touch is gossamer light and absolutley charming. ( )

Reads very well, the prose is excellent, and takes the reader through the life of the twenties and thirties. The stories that take place in Minneapolis and Chicago have several themes that a reader from cold Canadian cities can relate to. ( )

This collections of the short stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald really blew me away specifically with respect to the quality and poetry of the language employed. His use of prose rhythem, alliteration, assonance, circumlocution and economy is almost mathmatic in its complexities. Combine that with his range of style, mood and subject matter and you've got yourself some heavy yet accessible short stories.

I especially enjoyed "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and the descriptions of lost love and his ecstasies over feminine beauty that seem to recur throughout. Of course there will also be several occurances throughout which may offend modern sensibilities.