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The Woke Bell Tolls for Ernest Hemingway
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| 29 June 2023
| Robert Spencer
Posted on 06/29/2023 2:23:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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While I generally think Hemingway is over-rated and that personally he was a pompous ass, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are great novels.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:23:34 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
When Chesterton played out the consequenes of moral relativism, many thought he was merely being absurdist.
Indeed, one of my classmates at U of Chicago wrote a parody of the pervert groups at U of Chicago, and much of what he wrote as parody has either come to pass or has been exceeded.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:26:47 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Rummyfan
Being forced to read The Old Man And The Sea in high school put me completely off Hemingway. I think they make kids read that and The Last Of The Mohicans in order to ruin literature for them. What horrible books.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:30:44 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Rummyfan
Burning more books by the left. Join Mark Twain and Dr Seuss.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:31:48 PM PDT
by
bray
To: Rummyfan
Penguin Random House is also the publisher of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and other Rand books. I wonder if they're going to add trigger warnings or suppress her books altogether.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:32:05 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: Seruzawa
I always liked C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien and Michael Crichton myself.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:32:27 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: bray
And apparently JK Rowling.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:32:54 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Rummyfan
Because our current culture is the pinnacle of enlightenment and purity of heart and mind.
To: Seruzawa
Bless your heart, I found The Old Man and the Sea very entertaining. In fact, I think of that situation often, although I may be confusing memories with the movie.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:34:46 PM PDT
by
armourenthusiast
(I capitalize everything related to South)
To: Rummyfan
Most artists seem to have some dire mental condition - pomposity and depression are a particularly deadly mix.
But he is certainly one of the better American authors - certainly up there with Steinbeck and Hawthorne.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:44:40 PM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
To: Seruzawa
Schools infrequently choose books that kids WANT to read. But over time peoples tastes change. I had to read Pride and Prejudice in school. Hated it. Now I love it and have the DVD. I have no idea what books are being touted nowadays. I’m probably better off for it though.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:49:32 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(The battery on my quantum computer is dying. I'm not sure where to find a replacement.)
To: No name given
I always liked C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien and Michael Crichton myself.Those are definitely three greats, and in particular I think I read everything Crichton wrote in his lifetime.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:52:18 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:53:57 PM PDT
by
webheart
To: BipolarBob
Yeah well, they made us read Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet and MacBeth back in high school. And I must say I much more greatly appreciate them now in my old age than I did as a teenager.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:54:18 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
To: Rummyfan
“Anyone in our enlightened age who is crazy and daring enough to read Ernest Hemingway,”
I enjoyed the PBS show on Hemingway. I don’t recall there being anything in it so terrible about him that I would never read or never admit to reading any of his great works.
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posted on
06/29/2023 2:55:21 PM PDT
by
equaviator
(If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
To: Rummyfan
To: windcliff
To: Rummyfan
TCM is my usual channel for entertainment. I watch very little other than that on tv. I even have Hamlet DVRed.
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posted on
06/29/2023 3:00:31 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(The battery on my quantum computer is dying. I'm not sure where to find a replacement.)
To: Rummyfan
Crichton was a genius. Too soon taken. RIP all of them.
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posted on
06/29/2023 3:02:04 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(The battery on my quantum computer is dying. I'm not sure where to find a replacement.)
To: BipolarBob
I liked plenty of the books that were on the school reading list. But Cooper was simply too much for 9th graders. It was a horrible slog. David Copperfield and Silas Marner were no problem.
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posted on
06/29/2023 3:02:47 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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