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Hemingway books, brief thoughts. 2016-03-15 16:29:48 Post No. 7814992
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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises - okay
For Whom the Bell Tolls - good
A Farewell to Arms - okay
To Have and Have Not - very bad
Across the River and Into The Trees - decent
I most read Hemingway for content, like how he talks a lot about war, and his European settings are good. I thought FWTBT was very interesting, a military mission building to the climax, and the reflections on war were interesting. A Farewell to Arms was also a bit like this, but not as good. Only book by him I hated was For Have and Have Not, with dreadful prose, boring stuff happening, and...well, it was just bad.
I like Hemingway. Not like Americans (apparently) do, but I do enjoy him. I do, however, wish his prose was quite a lot more complex. Enjoyable things he writes about.
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Anyone else read him? I've read quite a lot of his books now.
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>>7814992
Who is this poop sloop?
I read The Old Man and the Sea for fun in middle school and haven't touched him since.
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>>7815012
She's not a poop sloop, she's a semen demon. I think she's an actress.
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His characters are faithful, logical in action and commit themselves to task instead of self-rumination. I always come back to him when I feel I need to get out of my own head, get out into life, do things, and do them well. Maybe that is the best way to navigate a world which is always hostile. I take his prose as it is, simple but true.
Full disclosure: I am American and find this fluid druid oddly attractive.
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As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘noughties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
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I like his short stories better than his novels desu
favorite short stories are
A Clean Well Lighted Place
In Another Country
Hills Like White Elephants
The Short Happy Life of Francis McCuckber
Soldier's Home
Big Two-Hearted River
The Gambler, The Nun and the Radio
Cat in the Rain
I think Farewell to Arms was my favorite novel of the ones I did read.
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>>7815100
Which book would you recommend to start reading Hemingway?
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>>7815156
whoops I forgot
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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>>7815128
>As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘noughties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.
baka desu senpai
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I thought For Whom the Bell Tolls was really amazing, even though the archaic writing irritated me at the start
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>>7815178
>archaic
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