Pretty amazing, especially coming out of the early 20th Century. Hilarious in his obsession with 'the C word' and sex and all the dirty diseases that come with it. Also, funny to watch Miller denounce the practice of putting so much importance on the literary geniuses like Goethe, Emerson, Tennyson, etc - but then watch as he quotes them left and right within his own prose. It's a wonderful experiment with language and stream of consciousness, though. Definitely worth being named a classic, even if a bit bizarre.

I can't get over how awesome this is? Alison Bechdel called it 'a scathing and meticulously documented autobiographical triumph', which is VERY TRUE.

Brilliant, literary, funny, tragic, sad.

OH MY GOD

Graphic novel. Great images that just enhance and play along with the story. It's always amazing to me how an author can write literally two or three sentences on a page in a graphic novel, and you can still feel it tug at your heart strings. Great book. Wacky family for sure, with funny and serious elements.

Very touching and well drawn memoir from the person behind Dykes to Watch Out For.

this book taught me that gin is the least detectable on the breath, if youre planning on becoming a functional alcoholic.

This book was pretty sad. I don't think it was as much about Nicole's mental illness as their ability to stay in love with each other. Neither of them were particularly good people, they just wanted adoration from everyone around them.
As with Fitzgerald's other works, I feel like I might be missing something. I feel like I can't understand how truly grand the characters are supposed to be.

This book is breathaking. I'm not a Fitzgerald fan - I did not enjoy The Great Gatsby, but Tender is the Night is quite an achievement. Fitzgerald does an incredible job of demonstrating how a life is touched, changed, and destroyed by involvement with a schizophrenic. Perhaps it is my own personal experience which connected me so well with this novel and with Fitzgerald's emotion - but, regardless, the imagery is vivid, the scenarios and plot credible, and the entire story absolutely moving and painful, as well as vindicating. I had to put the book down at many points, due to its ability to evoke sad and painful memories, but upon completion, I felt whole again.