None of which alters my enjoyment of his writing.
Yeah, I agree. People can be real jerks, but so long as they are good writers, I’ll hear their words.
So he was not only an awful writer and a slobbering drunk, but a sadist, too.
I don’t remember if I read any of his books, I did see some movies of some of his books though
It was an education. I had it. They told me about the greats, the great authors. We read Hemingway. We read everything. I went on TV once to talk about it. What I talked about was The Sun Also Rises. I did not like that book, but I pretended that I did. It was boring. It was narcissistic. It was silly. “Silly,” I called it. Time passed. I became more comfortable with opinions. The opinions were my own. I joined Free Republic. There was a time I wrote there. What I wrote was that Hemingway simply sucks. His work is just as silly as it ever was. And the sentences are short. Very, very short. Hemingway sets off my “sh+t detector.” Yes.
But his writing stinks. He writes short sentences. He was effeminate. He overcompensated with masculine posturing. oops. That last sentence was too long. He had cats. They had too many toes. Inbreeding.
It’s fine with me if adults choose to read the writings of degenerates. But don’t teach it in schools and keep it out of public libraries. It’s bad enough that I am forced (with the threat of state violence) to pay for the education of other people’s kids and reading habits. But don’t make me subsidize un-Christian propaganda. This is a Christian nation. If we have to buy books for others to read, those should be books written by Christians. Otherwise, I am not only being robbed, but religiously oppressed as well.