This Side of Paradise

I cannot believe this pile of...I don't know what was written by the same man that gave the world [b:The Great Gatsby 4671 The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1273944449s/4671.jpg 245494]. A series of overly-clever conversations and observational set-pieces almost making a plot, with bits of bad poetry scattered throughout does not a novel make. A pretentious waste of time.