BCPL Staff Review 6-18-25
- Jun 18
- 1 min read
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Release Date: May 1922
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3 Stars - While I adore The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald's claim to fame, the author's other works just cannot impress me the same way. And Button here was no exception. The story is easy enough to follow, and the meaning hits you over the head on every page. But I expected strange and I got even stranger. This is too short for anyone, even Button himself, to be likable or enjoyable. Instead it's a mercifully short but painfully blunt piece on the concept that age is relative. Certain things don't make sense and depends upon the stubbornness of characters. Born an old man, Button is intelligent and can automatically read and understand things? But his father insists on treating him like a child. Why not just let him act like an old man? I could go on. Obviously, you can live to be 100 and still be an idiot. And some people are wise beyond their years in elementary school. This does a mediocre job of saying that.
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