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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

(Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces)

By Francis Scott Fitzgerald

(153)

| Hardcover | 9780061144189

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The tale and the screenplay

If you saw the movie and liked it, and even more if you didn't like it a lot... read the tale. It's very much different from the screenplay, somehow harder, a lot less romantic, and personally, after reading it, I thought much better of the screen adaptation. They're both very clever stories

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Angie said on Mar 1, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Great short story

I read this book, enjoyed it, and then the film came out and now all I think of when this book is mentioned is Brad Pitt and an ugly little old baby. The book kept me intrigued, the film just turned it into an American love story like every other Hollywood movie.

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Danielle said on Jun 14, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Not what I expected

Silly me, I had watched the movie and though it was a long love story ala Somewhere in Time. But I was in for a surprise. This is a short story, told succinctly (60 pages, with illustrations). It examines a life lived in reverse, and how it seems to be both a blessing and curse.
The lovely color i ... (continue)

Silly me, I had watched the movie and though it was a long love story ala Somewhere in Time. But I was in for a surprise. This is a short story, told succinctly (60 pages, with illustrations). It examines a life lived in reverse, and how it seems to be both a blessing and curse.
The lovely color illustrations (they look like the belong in an art gallery) in this volume by Calef Brown are fantastic!

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guiltlessreader aka screamingbanshee said on Dec 20, 2009 | Add your feedback

很棒，很有創意的一篇小小說

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Patrick Yang said on Dec 23, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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It is a very interesting read that I quite like. The first chapter is pretty humorous, Mr. Button's terrifying (but comical) first encounter with his newborn "baby" brought me some chuckles. As the story progresses, however, the pace is picked up and the readers can start feeling the tension and dis ... (continue)

It is a very interesting read that I quite like. The first chapter is pretty humorous, Mr. Button's terrifying (but comical) first encounter with his newborn "baby" brought me some chuckles. As the story progresses, however, the pace is picked up and the readers can start feeling the tension and disconnect that Benjamin is constantly having with the real world. When he marries a charming woman his age, he faces criticism as the public deems it shameful for a woman to marry such an "old" man. However after some years later the public soon forgets about this and feels sorry for Benjamin instead, for he is stuck with a woman that looks at least twenty years older than him. These kind of struggles are never-ending - Benjamin is usually incapable of doing what his mind craves to do, as his physical condition is always too old or too young to accomplish it.
The story ends with a bittersweet note; on one hand the readers feel relieved that Benjamin is finally over with his misery, but at the same time they feel sad that all those memories and experiences that Benjamin once has lived are no longer remembered, as if they never existed.
It is a very thought-provoking story and despite its shortness (it can be easily finished in an hour) the impact it leaves on its readers' minds is prodigious.

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xeriaz said on Jun 12, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback