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I picked up this book because I remembered really enjoying it when I read it in high school but I couldn't remember a thing about it. I can see why I enjoyed it during high school--it's a coming of age story about a philosophical protagonist who struggles with ideas about character, beauty, love, etc. I'm sure it all seemed very gallant when I read it when I was younger. It was quite dull reading it as an adult--I kept hoping for something to *happen*, for a plot point to push Amory into action.
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This is the first book that F. Scott Fitzgerald ever published and he published it just out of college. The book follows Amory, a young man, making his way through college at Princeton (one can see that the story kind of mirrors Scott's own story). It follows his loves and the losses of those loves. While not his best work, it's definitely a good read.
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