"This Side of Paradise" is beautiful, ugly, brave, cowardly, immaculate, flawed. It's
paradise lost and paradise regained and paradise in purgatory. It's everything life and man
should or shouldn't be, all at once. I can perfectly understand why someone wouldn't like
this novel, wouldn't understand, wouldn't appreciate. But I also understand that if all the
world were Amory-ish or Amory-leaning, Amory-sympathetic, Amory-lovers, or even
Amory-haters - somehow the world would just collapse and be ruined. …
