Were his novels even that well written?

>>8060199
No way. Minimalism is nothing compared to the jazzean streams of sweet mind flow by my favorite author and auteur James Joyce

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>>8060203
>James Joyce
>Ulysses

DANK JOKE

Americans can't into literature.

>>8060199
not really no

he's not bad and he had a fine vision, just not exceptional, and it's marred by how his work led to a huge decline in general literary aptitude, cause everyone jerks it over >muh minimalism >muh functional prose these days

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>Hemmingway.jpg

Anyone who says Old Man and the Sea wasn't well written is dead inside.

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>>8060223
You make me cry.

>>8060199
'Pens'.

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>>8060240
that Final Walking Scene, So good.

>>8060240
Seconded. Only book I have read by him that I liked though.

>>8060199
yeah. For Whom the Bell Tolls is one of the few books I've read more than once.

>>8060240
Anyone who says it was is dead upstairs.

>>8060265
i found fwtbt to have beautiful prose

Yes, they were well written.

>>8060199
Yes. The problem with Hemingway that everyone seems to have is his influence on less able writers who've convinced themselves they can pull off what he can do.

>>8060240
Read the top rated 1 star reviews on goodreads. I die a little each time.

People think that because they have to take a creative initiative while reading his minimalist style that it means he couldn't right.