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As a Hemingway fan I enjoyed this collection. His simple style where every word is needed gives me real reading pleasure. In his short stories this characteristic is even more noticable and some are really short. At the same time I enjoy his novels.
Not for the people who dislike Hemingway, for the others I’d say: read it! You’ll enjoy it.
Not for the people who dislike Hemingway, for the others I’d say: read it! You’ll enjoy it.
I picked this book up to read with a group. Hemingway's style worked for some of these stories and not for others. There were some I simply skipped over. The stories I like the most were "The Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River" Parts I and II. Many of the stories are linked through the characters, and could read almost as a continuation of one longer narrative, but they are not quite connected enough for that. I'm still thinking about these stories and the purpose of the Chapters that sit i
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After years of avoiding Hemingway because I was tired of his misogyny and male terseness, I have come back to him again. We read For Whom the Bell Tolls in book group, which revived my interest, and now these stories. His writing loses nothing for the paucity of adjectives, partly because the nouns and verbs are so strong and clear. His description of trout swimming in "Big Two-Hearted River" is breathtakingly perfect. Words like shot and angle and surface and caught and tightened manage to desc
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I'd read the well known stories from this in the past -- but to read the entire thing, with the vignettes at the chapter openings, and in the order he wanted them in -- made for quite the amazing book. I can see why they say Hemingway changed the course of American literature.
2018 - hmm. My reviewing style has changed in 5 years. I'm not feeling amazed this time out. Still impressed and awed, but not amazed. Its well worth a read, and intersting to try and thematically link up the vignettes and ...more
2018 - hmm. My reviewing style has changed in 5 years. I'm not feeling amazed this time out. Still impressed and awed, but not amazed. Its well worth a read, and intersting to try and thematically link up the vignettes and ...more
Hemingway at his best
Great stories of travel and the outdoors, of skiing and fishing, of camping and cooking and food and of being skillful. Vintage Hemingway
Great stories of travel and the outdoors, of skiing and fishing, of camping and cooking and food and of being skillful. Vintage Hemingway
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