 Editor in Chief Bill   | 25 Oct 2021 10:56 p.m. PST |
Which Ernest Hemingway novel would you recommend the most? |
| Martin Rapier | 26 Oct 2021 12:51 a.m. PST |
I don't know if it his best, but I loved Farewell to Arms. |
| Son of Liberty | 26 Oct 2021 4:18 a.m. PST |
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pzivh43  | 26 Oct 2021 5:33 a.m. PST |
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| Oddball | 26 Oct 2021 6:03 a.m. PST |
I've always been a fan of "For Whom The Bells Toll", now later in life I see the struggles more clearly in "Old Man and the Sea". Healthy tip of the hat to "Farewell to Arms". Not a novel, but a great story is "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber". Hemingway is my favorite American writer, even if his work shows signs of being a commie at times. Heard him once described as "The perfect American author – Fat, Drunk and Violent". I have been referred to in the same way. |
| Shagnasty | 26 Oct 2021 9:08 a.m. PST |
I would recommend "The Old Man And The Sea." It is a great distillation of Hemingway's themes. |
| cfielitz | 26 Oct 2021 9:21 a.m. PST |
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| 79thPA | 26 Oct 2021 9:30 a.m. PST |
Don't know if I would. I read some of his works in college and I would put him in the "overrated" category. If I was forced to pick one, I would say "The Old Man and the Sea." His old house in Havana is mildly interesting if you ever make it that way. |
| robert piepenbrink | 26 Oct 2021 10:33 a.m. PST |
Novels? Seriously? None. For short stories, the aforementioned "Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber" "The Undefeated" and "The Denunciation." On his good days--before all his stories had to be about Hemingway--he was a decent second-tier short story writer. |
| sixlasers | 26 Oct 2021 10:34 a.m. PST |
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| William Warner | 26 Oct 2021 12:38 p.m. PST |
For Whom the Bell Tolls, probably because it's about one of my favorite periods. |
| 4DJones | 26 Oct 2021 12:42 p.m. PST |
'A Moveable Feast' … Well, it may as well be a novel. |
 Old Contemptible | 26 Oct 2021 5:49 p.m. PST |
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| JimSelzer | 27 Oct 2021 10:51 p.m. PST |
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| CeruLucifus | 29 Oct 2021 11:29 a.m. PST |
None at this time. I guess his work might be worth a second look. I did book reports on his work in high school and never developed a taste. Maybe 40 years later I'll find more to it. I was always impressed by his stylistic tour de force, the short story "Hills like White Elephants". Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe on Hemingway: "Listen, Hemingway, don't repeat everything I say,' I said.
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"Who is this Hemingway person at all?"
"A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good."
– Farewell My Lovely |
| 79thPA | 31 Oct 2021 9:06 a.m. PST |
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| regia marina | 15 Nov 2021 6:23 p.m. PST |
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