Tender is the Night

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• motohagiography · Dec 22, 2022 · Recommends

  Gatsby, like most officially great novels, is the least good of Fitzgerald's books. Tender is the Night and The Beautiful and the Damned were way better. There was something about critics of the time who needed to suffer to appreciate anything and it was good of Mencken to hold Fitzgerald to his own standards,…

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• renkeyes · Mar 30, 2010 · Recommends

  …software development in the intervening two decades. I can't speak to the relevance of any specific work of fiction to any HN'er but the one writing this comment, but "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison and "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald are two novels that stand out to me as being particularly good.

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• hycaria · Jan 19, 2021 · Recommends

  I'm not native and also am blown away by Fitzgerald writing, reading the great gatsby and tender is the night afterwards. They are rather different books, but I loved the characters in tender is the night a lot more, so my preference would go to this one I guess.

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• thundergolfer · Mar 25, 2025 · Recommends

  That's his debut novel and I think it shows. Experimental, and has some puzzling sections. Having read that, Gatsby, and Tender is the Night, I think the latter is his strongest writing but the plot isn't as grand and dramatic.

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• cturner · Feb 15, 2011 · Recommends

  …the book, but I thought the opening was Fitzgerald's attempt to convey that the narrator was largely free of prejudice. Something put me back onto all this all about six months ago. I've just reread _Tender is the Night_ (fifteen years on after a couple of retries. I don't think I finished it at school although was somehow familiar with some of the end). I'm pleased I did, and now feel I'm doing better with that than…

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• thundergolfer · Jan 19, 2021 · Mentions

  I’ve just read Tender is the Night, and while I didn’t love it like I loved The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald knocks it out of the park with “poignant observational value”. “Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied…

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• kizz246 · Dec 22, 2016 · Mentions

  …to be Free - Corey Doctorow Currently Reading Engines of Creation: The Coming Era Of Nanotechnology - K. Eric Drexler * Planets for Sale - A.E. van Vogt For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• georgex7 · Dec 11, 2022 · Mentions

  …but not art. I could be wrong. I agree that AI will create breath-taking images, though I'm not sure how far that will go. Would we care about the David if it was made by a robot? Would we appreciate Tender is the Night if Fitzgerald wasn't giving his human perspective? Personally, I wouldn't; not for more than a moment. On the last point: I would prefer to pay artists creating beautiful works by hand instead of via…

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• cousin_it · Jan 19, 2024 · Mentions

  …itself, not many amazing new products were happening. That's what caused Google to change culture toward the corporate norm: the non-normal culture wasn't proving itself. It reminds me of Fitzgerald's "Tender Is the Night". When you're young, that book is a tragedy of broken love. But when you're a bit older, you realize it's a tragedy of ambition, of a man who dreamed of becoming a famous psychiatrist but it just wasn't…

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• TeaBrain · Oct 3, 2024 · Mentions

  …novels include The Count of Monte Cristo, Madame Bovary, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Joyce's Ulysses, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, and Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. A Farewell to Arms, for example, was completed entirely before it was serialized in Scribner's. In the heyday of the Atlantic and Scribner's magazines, many of the best American writers would first publish…

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• shadowtree · Mar 25, 2025 · Mentions

  …and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle — there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love battle.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

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• quuxplusone · Jul 21, 2026 · Mentions

  …Fitzgerald scholars typically consider The Beautiful and Damned to be among the author's weaker novels," so maybe something excellent is waiting for me if I ever get around to reading This Side of Paradise or Tender is the Night.)

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• thundergolfer · Jan 19, 2021 · Mentions

  …Fitzgerald has about the least monotonous prose of any author I've read. It's about as varied as Vonnegut, to me. I don't really know what it means to read visually, but I read about of a quarter of Tender is the Night out loud to myself, which would be 'audio reading', if anything.

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• johndhi · Dec 22, 2022 · Critical

  …to be asserting there are clear "quality" lines to be drawn between great novels. IMO we're into the realm of subjectivity here and it's really up to the reader to decide what they like. I didn't like Tender is the Night too much, and I love Hemingway's novels more than his stories (generally), chiefly The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Do I know better than you or do famous critics know better than me? I…

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