• Title: Islands in the stream
• Author: Ernest Hemingway
• Genre/Subject: Fiction of distinction
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1970
• Start date: 7/28/2023
• Finish date: 7/31/2023

Review:

I bailed on this. Got through about 30% and just had to move on.

I wanted to like this. I wanted it to live up to A Farewell to Arms or the short stories. But no.

Drinks, bars, descriptions of making drinks, descriptions of bars, descriptions of drinking drinks in bars. I would have love this when I was a drunk, but now I’m sober I can see right through the fog and there’s really nothing there.

200 pages until a female character finally appears so, essentially a sausage-party with a potted plant who shows up at the end.

Hemingway was a closeted faggot.