The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and other stories
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Length: 3 hours and 45 minutes
Genre: Short Stories
Book description: Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here - including- "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Tarquin of Cheapside," and "O Russet Witch!"
Thoughts:
The story is the most interesting one of them all. They all have a bit of exaggeration in all of them but different levels of it in each.
For example:
I had huge issues with the characters of most of them. Benjamin's family, the wife, the son; their behavior was totally inconsiderate. They blamed the deaging in him and treat him badly because of it.
The stories are all too exaggerated, but I believe that it is a signature trait of the author's. I got used to it, except that I disliked the pompous way the characters come off as because of it.
In the Diamond as big as Ritz, the teenagers are too shallow. But then again they are hugely rich and sheltered so it kind of made sense.
In the o russet Witch, the woman is the most sought after a woman to such a high degree that there was a huge mass of people in the street. It felt like too unbelievable, then again none of the stories I picked for their realism so, yeah. Of course, I did not like all of them.
MY least favorite is the middle story Tarquin of Cheapside. It was completely not my thing. But overall I like this author because I enjoy most of his stories.
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Length: 3 hours and 45 minutes
Genre: Short Stories
Book description: Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living in reverse. In this imaginative fable of ageing and the other stories collected here - including- "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Tarquin of Cheapside," and "O Russet Witch!"
Thoughts:
The story is the most interesting one of them all. They all have a bit of exaggeration in all of them but different levels of it in each.
For example:
I had huge issues with the characters of most of them. Benjamin's family, the wife, the son; their behavior was totally inconsiderate. They blamed the deaging in him and treat him badly because of it.
The stories are all too exaggerated, but I believe that it is a signature trait of the author's. I got used to it, except that I disliked the pompous way the characters come off as because of it.
In the Diamond as big as Ritz, the teenagers are too shallow. But then again they are hugely rich and sheltered so it kind of made sense.
In the o russet Witch, the woman is the most sought after a woman to such a high degree that there was a huge mass of people in the street. It felt like too unbelievable, then again none of the stories I picked for their realism so, yeah. Of course, I did not like all of them.
MY least favorite is the middle story Tarquin of Cheapside. It was completely not my thing. But overall I like this author because I enjoy most of his stories.
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