finish one book by Hemingway

I read A Farewell to Arms last year and hated it. I thought it was excruciatingly boring. But hey, at least it’s another completed goal.

Read Farewell to Arms. SOOO frustrating. Catherine is painfully insecure and easily manipulated; Frederick just messes with her head and gets her pregnant. Not a believeable love story.

I’ve read For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and A Movable Feast. I was amazed at how much I enjoyed them, and how his writing is not as it is often stereotyped.

Without thinking about it, I know I’ve read For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea. There’s probably at least one other that’s not coming to mind.

I think a lot of people who haven’t read H. are expecting him to sound like Shakespeare and would be really pleasantly surprised if they gave The Old Man and the Sea a try.

A good intro to EH. Short stories are good too. All of it is good.

was an excellent read.

Btw, I have had For whom the Bell Tolls for a few years and still haven’t read it. How pathetic am I?

For Whom the Bell Tolls – I saw the movie first and realized that something was missing – that something was found in the novel. And I’ve read Fifth Column. Someday, I’m going to read some Hemingway that’s not about the Spanish Civil War, although that is a period/place about which I’m enthusiastic – it was the unnoticed tipping point for the 20th Century. Hemingway’s reflections about it in novel form help to make the histories come alive.

I loved the movie so much I read this little book in a single pass.

Basically worth doing so I can say that I’ve done it. I’m not a big Hemingway fan.