Saturday, May 11, 2013

Diamond

I just read "A Diamond As Big As The Ritz" by F. Scott Fitzgerald as research for a story I'm writing. I'm sure I've read it before, but not for many years. It's a combination of a tall tale and King Solomon's Mines and chock full of class hatred. If this is any indication Fitzgerald did not like the American rich much at all.

4 Comments:

Blogger Eleanor said...

If you haven't read it, it's a horrible story about horrible people.

4:17 PM  
Blogger Leslie Bates said...

Darn, I'll have to scratch that off my reading list.

2:07 AM  
Blogger Eleanor said...

Leslie -- It's funny, horrible story. I should have made that clear.

7:12 AM  
Blogger Leslie Bates said...

Okay.

I'm still trying to get the hang of this writing thing. On my last attempt to write a novel I fell into the "tell-not show trap," and managed to write an 800 word outline for a completely different work.

11:14 AM  

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