Posted on 09/27/2014 7:22:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Well done.
I took out a library book a few years ago of Hemingway’s short stories. They were an enjoyable read. Seems like I don’t read books as much these days. Might be reading too many news related articles on the internet plus those dang posted weblinks on FR too— (’. So much material, so little time.
Well Nanners Peloosly and Hellary Clintoons books both make great bonfire starters.
Hemingways can still stay on the bookcase shelf.
As in, “It takes a Village”....to elect an idiot.
No, it was you and Dorothy and I.
If you read Hemingway backwards it’s Yoda.
Lol!
....a savage one...and...a remiss one...
No wonder the modern Left, and their stooges in the education establishment, love him so much.
I teach American Lit. WE proceed chronologically, and when we get to Hemingway, Steinbeck and Fitzgerald... Ugh
“Old Man and the Sea”. Ok. There is no way to make that week long read make sense to reasonable people.
So baseless of any true morality. There’s just no lesson there. No theme, no epiphany.
The plot is silly.
“Hills Like White Elephants” was interesting to go through as a student, in discovering symbolism. It’s about a guy who dumps his girlfriend over an abortion.
And then Hemingway killed himself. With a shotgun inside the house. That is a mess for the family to have to come and clean up. Aggressive, if you ask me. It’s not as if that wasn’t in his writing.
And then we move on to Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty and we’re back on track
Vacuous.
Years ago I started one of his novels, forget which one, it was so tedious and boring I closed it up, never to pick up one of his works again.
However, I LOVED all the movies based on his novels, among them...."The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (Gregory Peck), "The Killers" (Burt Reynolds), "To Have and Have Not" (ah, Bogie and Bacall)....
His movies were hits, no matter how boring the novel, because the locales in Hemingway's tales were always set in exotic places like Africa, Spain, Italy, Cuba, the old Florida Keys......and the time frames were always riveting....the Spanish Civil War, World War I, the running of the bulls in Pamplona....the torero and el toro in the bull ring....so many of his story-lines were JUST MADE for dramatic action and steamy romance movies.
He stated once that when he left Oak Park he would never return...,and he didn't except for a brief visit for a funeral. Hard to understand because it was a stimulating place to grow up, a tree-lined suburb right out of an old Judy Garland-Micky Rooney "Andy Hardy" film. The quiet village itself was filled with academia types, professors, teachers, writers, artists and architects (Frank Lloyd Wright amongst them)...and emphasis on learning and succeeding in life was always in the air.
Hemingway's birth/boyhood home in Oak Park has been restored...and guided tours are available. It's a jewel to visit...especially for those interested in literature and the architecture and furnishing of old homes. Hemingway's home, inside and outside, is a beautiful window into Victorian life in Chicago-land during the early 1900's.
Leni
sure would have liked to have gone fishing with the man.
Probably would have drank rum with him too.
Many American writers as well as Hollywood stars were pro-Stalinists and worked for the Communist Party against the U.S., but even worse is when a Senator of the most powerful political clan of America,offered his services to the KGB during the cold war.
If that’s true, somewhere F. Scott Fitzgerald is smiling!
His “A Moveable Feast,” is beautiful. One of my favorite books. Spare & elegant.
Hemingway wasn’t gay. That’s a silly canard pushed around by left-wing academics. Considering he was left-wing I’m scratching my head over that put-down. He was severely mentally ill when he killed himself - a diagnosed paranoid who had been hospitalized. His father killed himself the exact same way.
One can't absolve him of all these charges, but early on, admiration for Castro was still pretty common.
Castro didn't proclaim himself a Communist right off, and it took a while for the early enthusiasm to fade.
No its not you. I agree.
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.
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