Current book: This Side of Paradise
Pages read: 81-152
Amory broke up with Isabelle, read and discussed a lot more books and philosophy, failed an exam that kept him out of the prestigious cadre of Princeton leaders, briefly fell in love with this third cousin, graduated, and went to World War I. His mother and father died. Then he came back to live in New York.
I swear to you that that's all that's happened, and I don't even have anything to say about it. Fitzgerald is providing a convincing and realistic portrait of a young, wealthy college boy in the late 19-teens. I...yeah. Sorry.
Oh, I almost forgot! He glimpsed his own mortality when one of his friends died in a car accident and keeps thinking that he sees his friend's ghost. There you go - occult intrigue!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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