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Too bad that I didn't finish this in enough time to have it count towards my Literary Birthday book reads for 2016. I should have just DNFed it since it didn't do anything besides bore and annoy me in equal measure.So this is a memoir by Ernest Hemingway, where he talks about writing and then shit t...
I decided to read the longer, restored edition instead of the shorter version, [b:A Moveable Feast|4631|A Moveable Feast|Ernest Hemingway|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1356407015s/4631.jpg|2459084]. I've wanted to read this for many years and thought it was time.I loved this book, but ...
This was my first foray back into Hemingway after a college professor ruined his short stories for me by insisting that EVERYTHING in them was symbolic of something else, despite Hemingway's own words - "There isn’t any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy...
Arrgh! My review got lost! Trying again. I had never read Hemingway before this, and wasn't sure I would like him, but when this special edition of A Farewell to Arms came out, I decided to try it.I still can't say whether I really like him or not. His style is not really my thing: the terse, spar...