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I read all of Hemingway when I was a teenager. I couldn't stand to read most of it again. He may well have been a great fisherman, but he was a lousy writer. Just my opinion.
Never considered him to be "tarnished". He led a helluva life and wrote some of the best, most insightful fiction in modern history.
I do not know which is more interesting the author or his writing....really interesting article thank you for the post.
Anybody who just does what they want to do will never lack critics.
He had a dark and stormy past.
I'm convinced that's why he took the Ketchum Exit. That, and the well had gone dry.
I actually "discovered" his work while wandering through my local public library looking for something interesting. I picked up 'The Green Hills of Africa' and 'To Have and Have Not' mostly because I love hunting and Bogart movies. I have gone on to read many of his other works. He is now one of my favorite authors.
He certainly lived an interesting life. I would love to read more about him.
I don't follow this one. The mercury poisoning of fish is associated with poor industrial practice of disposing of specific industrial waste which happened to have high levels of mercurial compounds,..which are later ingested by fish, and if those fish are in an area of heavy fishing, then the consumption of the mercury laden fish results in a cumulative absorption of mercury in the human or mercury poisoning.
This was highlighted about the same time some villagers in Japan consumed the equivalent of about a kilogram of dioxin/PCPs with similar effects back in the 70s when they cooked only with the equivalent of motor oil.
Just because a fish comes from the ocean doesn't mean it's poisoned with mercury or mercurial compounds. Nor does it mean if somebody eats a steady diet of fish they will have any ill effects from mercury poisoning. Some fish might have more propensity of storing mercury compounds in their bodies, but a steady diet of fish isn't unnatural.
If it were, all Cajuns would end up either like David Duke or That Blanco character,........well, then again,...nevermind.
However, he hated his home town, left it after graduating from high school, vowed never to return......and didn't.
So, we're even.
Leni
Was that really an issue back then? I thought this particular pollution problem was a relatively recent phenomenon.
I finally read a few of Hemingway's books, because...well...they're often referred to, and I thought I should. I thought The Old Man and the Sea was pretty good. On the other hand, I almost didn't make it through A Farewell to Arms.
He had his own writing style, and I like and respect that, even if his isn't a style I'd ever want to emulate. But he had NO understanding of women, to the point where the women characters he writes are so unbelievable that it's painful to read. I'm not sure he ever understood people in general, for that matter.
And, for what it's worth, I don't think his male characters come across as "macho". Many just come across as misogynist creeps.
What's a Hemingway ?
Oh about 200 lbs