For my 11/12 Grade English class we have begun reading This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I may have mentioned this before, but I really enjoy Fitzgerald. This book in particular is great, because it is written in such an over-the-top manner, as if each line is poetry. He looked back on this early novel late in his career with a slight sense of embarassment on account of this poetic-form, but I think that is what makes it great.
Where Catcher in the Rye shows the growing of a young, disturbed adolescent in one manner, this shows the budding of an aesthete and writer. It is a peek behind the curtain at the young psyche of Fitzgerald himself, accenting his eccintricities beautifully, and it explains quite well how he came to be who he was as an author.
After just coming out of Hemingway for the first half of the semester, this is such a refreshing dose of intellectual stimulation. Well worth you time, if I might say so.
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