“I used to feel that the novel output of Fitzgerald was like the literary version of the Myers Briggs test: whichever one a person favored was some fundamental indicator of his or her personality.  Roughly it followed that ordinary and banal people liked The Great Gatsby, snotty, effete types liked This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned was for the discerning and unconventional (I’ll let you guess in which camp I numbered myself).  Tender is the Night was sort of an unknown quantity, preferred by dramatic people, maybe, or people who take pills.” Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling
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“I used to feel that the novel output of Fitzgerald was like the literary version of the Myers Briggs test: whichever one a person favored was some fundamental indicator of his or her personality.  Roughly it followed that ordinary and banal people liked The Great Gatsby, snotty, effete types liked This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned was for the discerning and unconventional (I’ll let you guess in which camp I numbered myself).  Tender is the Night was sort of an unknown quantity, preferred by dramatic people, maybe, or people who take pills.”

Modern Library Revue: #28 Tender is the Night by Lydia Kiesling

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    looks like I’m a Tender is the Night type… maudnewton:
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    Didn’t realize I was dramatic, nor that I took pills.
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    I wanted this book to be my life when I was 18.
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    I’m not sure I agree, Ms. Kiesling. Still, I’m keeping this piece on record.
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