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...
As with most memoirs nothing really happens. Of course, the purpose of most memoirs are to act as not only a first hand account of the writer, but of a particular time period, place, or culture. A Moveable Feast takes place in France, probably the most fascinating country in the world, to me at leas...
Quotable.“"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.” So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that ...
There are moments of greatness (particularly the last chapter) but often I don't find his style particularly effective for this kind of book. I can't help but notice that the rapturous reviews at the front of this copy seem to be more happy that there was some unknown Hemingway rather than happy ab...
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