My dearest Fitzgerald.Wish you could finish your book and create another masterpiece.

Oh, Fitzgerald, Fitzy, Scott, F. I kept putting this one off because I knew exactly how it would leave me, and I was exactly right. As much as I love Gatsby, as much as I love Tender is the Night and the short stories and the essays and every wastebasket scrap he’s written, this would have been It. Capital-I It. It still almost is, even terribly unfinished. Now what? The other woman was more missed in her absence. They were alone and on too slim a basis for what had passed already. They exis...

Originally, I had planned not to rate this book at all. After all, it's an unfinished novel. And yet...it's some of Fitzgerald's finest. Here on display is one of Fitzgerald's best literary tricks -- to have characters act in peculiar and implausible ways and to make them completely realistic and plausible. I loved every scene in this book. There is not a single sentence in this book, a single line, that doesn't crackle with energy. I just wished I could have read the finished product.

I really wish that Fitzgerald had the chance to finish this before he died. I think out of all his novels this had the potential to be as great as the Great Gatsby. My copy of this book had notes on how Fitzgerald planned to finish the novel, he planned meticulously by all accounts. But it’s simply not the same as reading the actual story, especially as one of my favourite parts of his books are his endings.

It's a tragedy this was left unfinished, as this felt like the most unique of his works, in that it felt like he was leaning less on his old habits to write it. Monroe is a character I'd love to see more of, and he was perfectly balanced: just special enough you'd want to read about him, but not so larger than life that you don't think you could bump into someone like him on the street somewhere.I think this could have been one of his best works, and I think he captured so well the trappings and...

It's a tragedy Fitzgerald died before finishing this because it's brimming with beautiful inspired writing and completely contradicts any notion that he was washed up as a writer. It appears it would have been more similar to Gatsby than Tender is the Night. Starr is an idealistic film director who believes in treating people with kindness and respect. He's out of synch with a Hollywood becoming ever more ruthless and cynical. Not enough of the story is written down to get a feel for how exactly...

Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s penultimate novel, “Tender is the Night,” saddened me, because it showed a once-great man struggling—and failing—to write a novel worthy of his prodigious talent and storied past.Reading “The Last Tycoon” saddens me, because he found that novel, then suddenly died before he could finish it. “The Last Tycoon” tells the story of Hollywood golden boy Monroe Stahr. He’s a good guy, pays his people well, and works hard to make good, profitable films—he’s not even afraid

I'm not precisely sure why this book effected me the way it did, but it certainly did. Fitzgerald finished writing the fifth chapter of this book before he had a heart attack and died. When you get to the end of this unfinished novel, you find the last word one of the greatest American writers ever wrote. Something about this is chilling. And despite the fact that one can not make any substantial investment in characters who we know in advance we'll never know completely or whose stories we won'...

It is strange, perhaps even morbid, to read the very last words of a favorite author on the very last page of his unfinished novel. The words wouldn’t mean as much had they been in the middle of one of the chapters, as he had originally intended them to be. But now, I feel as if this unfinished book would’ve been so much greater than his other ones, and that realization makes me so sad. You just had to go and die, Francis, didn’t ya?So I read the outline he had in mind and where he wanted to go

“They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.”There are very few writers whose careers you can trace through their work like F. Scott Fitzgerald.https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co...The kind of charming immaturity of This Side of Paradise; the polished, profound (if a little thematically evident), career-defining The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night, a decade’s attempt to live up to Gatsby; and, finally, The Last Tycoon, the book that finally would’ve done so.AN...

I have now read all of Fitzgerald's major published works. After finishing The Love of The Last Tycoon, the incomplete manuscript on his desk when he died, I ask immediately wonder how this novel differs from his other works. Did he know he had this one last chance to voice his ideas? Did he compile the breadth of his lifelong learning into his final literary hero? Unfortunately, we can only speculate on these questions. But I find comfort in the idea that we would not have these questions had n...

Unfinished works aren't the best starting point for reading a new-to-you author, but Fitzgerald's skillful way with words instantly put me on his side. General consensus among friends who've read Gatsby implied that it was "kind-of a boring book"; nobody told me that Fitzgerald is simply a delight to read, regardless of subject. His mastery is much in evidence here, a book begun roughly twenty years into his professional career. Its romance is touching, and the relational and emotional tangle of...

This was F. Scott Fitzgerald's final book. He never finished it. On December 21, 1940, the day after he wrote chapter 6, Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack. For an unfinished novel The Last Tycoon is a powerful work. I feels like a second draft rather than the first draft that it apparently is. Heavens, the man could write! I'm not sure why GR has this book listed under the title The Love of the Last Tycoon. My copy was a first edition, published in 1941 and is titled simply, The Last Tycoo...

An incomplete first draft only of the book FSF was still writing when he died, this feels like a new departure or at least a fresh start. As in Gatsby there is a first person narrator who isn't one of the romantic protagonists, and large sections of what exists are almost third-person narratives of the doomed love between Monroe Stahr and Kathleen. What marks a diversion from the previous books is that this is set in Hollywood and that Stahr is a film producer: a large part of the story revolves...

Stunning scenes shrouded in the typical softness of Fitzgerald, not exempt from clichés, but that the author reclaims thanks to a strong presence, and some subtle dialogues which punctuate the story and maintain the attention.We, therefore, regret that the author was not able to complete it, because it would undoubtedly have given a new great novel, quite in the line of its two previous ones, if the drafts had kept all their promises.In the meantime, despite the absence of unity and above all th...

EDIT: Junio, 2015I Watched the movie again last night. Sick and all, STILL LOVED IT.Reseña Original: November, 20143.5I read the book a looong time ago, but last week I saw the movie for a fourth time and.. I'm not sure why but, for some reason, I prefer the film version to the book.MMM...I wonder why that is.......I mean, I think the movie had a certain something a superior someone...I know it had something someone definitely superior......That i loved a lot more/u>< in the movie......Of course...

There is something about this man's writing that does it for me.“There’s nothing that worries me in the novel, nothing that seems uncertain.Unlike “Tender is the night” it is not a story of deterioration – it is not depressive and not morbid in spite of the tragic ending. If one could ever be more “like” another I should say it is more “like” The Great Gatsby than any other of my books.But I hope it will be entirely different – I hope it will be something new, arouse new emotions, perhaps even a...

Another Fitzgerald novel that I read in French a long time ago, and have just rediscovered with wonder by reading it in English. There's something about Fitzgerald's writing style that is really unique and that no translation, as good as it may be, can communicate. Because The Last Tycoon is unfinished, and is a work in progress that will always stay this way, it can come across as frustrating not to have the complete novel, and to read sentences and paragraphs that the author may have rewritten...

If only The Last Tycoon were complete, it would have certainly been a 5 stars read. In fact, Fitzgerald did not finish his last book due to his early death and what remains of the manuscript covers up to two thirds of the story he intended to write. We know how he wanted to continue it by the notes he left behind and DAMN. What he had in mind was extraordinary and the tragic finale would have won me over! But since I have to judge what remains of this book, I feel like giving it 3.5 stars.

It's extremely unfair to rate this as it's an unfinished manuscript, especially as it's an unfinished manuscript by F. Scott Fitzgerald who was notoriously sensitive about the reception of his books. However, it's really and truly awful. I can't finish it. 72 pages in and I'm bailing. Probably best for Fitzgerald fans not to engage with this one. I absolutely adored This Side of Paradise and think his earlier work is brilliant, but this shows how deeply Fitzgerald had, at the end of his life and...