Thoughts on Fitzgerald and Hemingway? I just got done with The

>>9160836
They're both hacks

Fitzgerald is based.

I've read the old man and the sea, and it was pretty good. I also read for whom the bell tolls, and it was absolutely disgraceful. Waste of time.

The Sun Also Rises and Tender is the Night are both considered masterpieces.

>>9160946
you didnt even answer the question. Do you just get your opinion from what everyone else thinks

The Sun Also Rises is the worst book I've ever read.

>>9160968
I'm just saying it's no mystery you enjoyed them.

>>9160971
I see im not trying to act like it was I was just wanted to see other peoples opinions

I just finished For Whom the Bell Tolls and a while ago I read A Farewell to Arms. New to /lit/ and I'm trying to read more so don't smite me too hard if this is retarded.

Both of these novels end in a pretty shitty fashion for the protagonist, and I really wanted everything to turn out well for them. If they had a "happy ending" would I really give a shit though, weeks and months and years later? What is it about tragedy that makes us connect more to characters?

>>9161363

to answer that you should start with the greeks since they invented tragedy

and that's hemingway for you, his biography would read the same