The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Yes, you are reading correctly: F. Scott Fitzgerald. It's the story of a man who was born old and grew younger and younger as time passed. A little story, well told.

Rubbish! Completely devoid of any interesting insight or commentary. But for a couple of lushly evocative and touching sentences, I found nothing to connect me to this story. Benjamin Button is born an old man, who can speak and read and has a taste for cigars, and ages into a younger man, until his death as a baby (or his birth into a different life, however one might put it). The people around him not only think it exceedingly peculiar to go through life in such a way - they absolutely loathe him. It's not even worth Aesop's touch: “People mistrust those whose ways are different from their own.” Humbug.