Tag: Ernest Hemingway
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Islands in the stream
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… Read more
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A Farewell to Arms
Review: Fuck am I stoned. Right off me tits. This was an excellent book. Intense prose in a jerky, staccato delivery. The action moves very quickly but then stalls and dies in Book V. There’s denouement and denou-disappointment, which this was. Illustrates the futility of war and armies especially in the Great War. If you… Read more
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Review: I have always had a pretty low opinion of Hemingway, macho douchebags like him piss me off and I love that Wallace Stevens punched his drunk ass out in Key west. Are you ready for the however pivot? (Here it is) However, this was brilliant. Top shelf. Amazing, gripping, heartfelt, totally absorbing. No wonder… Read more