While I've never read a Hemingway book, I've always heard that he drank a lot and could be a hard man to get along with. I have seen his house in Key West and saw some of the bars he supposedly hung out in. I was rather taken back in the size of his house there. However, after reading this book, it ...
I really should have DNF'd this book. Putting aside my personal feelings and value judgments I have for Ernest Hemingway, the tone didn't come across as I would have expected. I really knew nothing of his (first) wife, but I would have expected EH to come across more broody and a mean drunk. Instead...
This book took me longer to read than I wanted it to. While I enjoyed it while reading it, the story dragged on with day to day minutiae that it often became hard to tell time lines. In fact, so much was told of the day to day that I was surprised to find out in the end that they'd only been mar...
Maybe I should have read more reviews or at least the Wikipedia entry for Ernest Hemingway before reading this. I admit that I knew little about him going into this, but I suppose that made it suspenseful at least, whereas I would have known that I'd find this story disturbing if I'd known what was ...
I've always thought to live a life like Ernest Hemingway would be a dream. Living a life full of adventure with a carefree attitude, writing a book about it and having it published would be quite like heaven. In A Paris Wife, a fictional account of Hemingway's first wife Hadley Richardson we learn ...
This is one of those books that I felt I should know something about since it's all popular and stuff, though, in all honesty, I knew it wouldn't appeal on a personal level seeing as how I've never been a fan of Hemingway, either his works or the stories of him as a person.For the first half, I was ...
This is a very confounding novel to write about. Maybe it was intentionally dull for the first three quarters. It eventually achieved a level of conviction as the marriage between Hadley and Ernest Hemingway began to tank. It's as if Hadley couldn't reflect on her married life until it was lost to h...
I was very disappointed by The Paris Wife as I found it incredibly dull. I expected a great deal more from Hadley's perspective but I quickly grew tired of listening to her yammer on about how bored she was as Ernest went off and wrote and she stayed home. I don't understand how this novel has becom...
After reading this book, I was surprised by how much I really enjoyed the experience. Like I said, I'm not a Hemingway fan by any means, but the research, writing, and flow of this story captured my attention and kept me captivated to the end, even though I knew going into it, that everything was go...
I am not a fan of Ernest Hemingway, his books or his character. This book, although readable, did not change my opinion of him. I did learn a lot about his first wife, Hadley.This is a fictional version of the marriage of Ernest and Hadley. I've been told the historical facts are accurate, althou...
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