In Our Time
by Ernest Hemingway
published
June 2002
(first published 1925)
by Scribner Book Company
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isbn
0743237250
(isbn13: 9780743237253)
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I really enjoyed my first exposure to Hemmingway when I read his short story, Hills Like White Elephants. Reading this book has actually lessened my enthusiasm for his writing, despite the fact that there are a few moving short stories in this collection.
Most of the stories are tragic or sad; however some of them I find myself having trouble relating to, because much of the suffering seems to be caused by a general phobia or mistrust of women. I hear that this is typical of Hemmingway -- that...more
Most of the stories are tragic or sad; however some of them I find myself having trouble relating to, because much of the suffering seems to be caused by a general phobia or mistrust of women. I hear that this is typical of Hemmingway -- that...more
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Read in June, 2007
Any review I write here is going to make me sound stupid. Somehow I left it not really having enjoyed it, but having renewed my appreciation for Hemingway's writing (though not necessarily his skills of positioning stories in a collection - even though I'm still not convinced that's the best word to describe this).
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i have to admit, i am not the largest hemingway fan, but this collection of short stories is one of my absolute favorites. he manages to weave a story of a complete generation with his stories, and reading them as they've been organized in "in our time" is the only way to do it. i'm still bitter that my 10th grade english teacher gave me such a bad first impression by making us read "big two hearted river" on it's own instead of at the end of the journey of "in our time&...more
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Fishing. Talking baseball. Riding the horses. Betting on the horses. Getting gored by bulls. Drinking to get drunk. All forms of masculinity expressed through the narrative eye and distinctive voice of Ernest Hemingway, as evidenced by the many short tales of his story collection, IN OUR TIME. Whether alone with their own thoughts, among other men, or fumbling through encounters with the opposite sex, Hemingway’s men struggle to understand themselves and their individual roles in the wo...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in January, 1980
I'm rereading this over the weekend preparing to teach it Thursday night. It's hard to organize my responses, partly because I'm reading these stories for the umpteenth zillion time and partly because I'm reading trying to anticipate student resistance. It will be an interesting class bc 1) I'll be the only dude in the room 2)a significant portion of the class if African-American, which makes me anxious about "The Battler", 3) most of these students are fairly conservative and aren't r...more
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This is actually a short story cycle, not a novel. I read it for a course which concentrated on the genre of the short story cycle and I really enjoyed this book as a representative of that genre. It tells the story of several isolated stories (not vignettes) which all share a common theme. I connected to more characters and stories over others but I really enjoyed the format of the book and I do admittedly love Ernest Hemingway so I am biased.
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اولین مجموعه داستان همینگوی است که بصورت یک سلسله داستان پی در پی با قهرمان مشهورش نیک ادامز است.
این مجموعه بصورت کامل به فارسی برگردانده نشده اما برخی از داستان هایش نظیر "کلبه ی سرخپوستان" (ترجمه ی ابراهیم گلستان) توسط مترجمین مختلف و در سال های متمادی اینجا و آنجا چاپ...more
این مجموعه بصورت کامل به فارسی برگردانده نشده اما برخی از داستان هایش نظیر "کلبه ی سرخپوستان" (ترجمه ی ابراهیم گلستان) توسط مترجمین مختلف و در سال های متمادی اینجا و آنجا چاپ...more
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A nice collection of short stories -- you can see the vast differences between Hemingway's and Joyce's prose styles; the former is lean, spare, clear and limpid while the latter complex, dense, somewhat difficult but beautiful all the same. My favorites are the Dr. and Dr's Wife, Big Two-Hearted River, and Indian camp. It seems to me that "Big Two-Hearted River" is about the young Hemingway going fishing--he basked in the sun, soaked up all there is in nature surrounding him, was poi...more
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I keep trying to get into Hemingway, but I think he's more of a man's author, sexist as that sounds....I think his writing might resonate with me more if I had a penis.
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Read in November, 2007
Although this book has been praised because of its non-lineral style, I found that to hard to get into. I agree that the non-linear style does help the theme of war turning a person's world into chaos, but the stories were too short. Hemingway's brilliance comes from what he withholds from the readers, but in a book of complete chaos, the constant descriptions about what the characters are doing did not sit well with me. I prefer Catch-22 and novels that delve into the psychology of characters. ...more
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Read in January, 1995
This one was the basis of my high school junior year english paper, the big one. Wish that I still had a copy of that. It would be interesting to see how I was writing, and thinking, back then.
This collection is like all Hemingway - no wasted words, everything is pared down to it's essential, honest form. It's a collection of vignettes followed by related short stories. I think I focused on the Big Two Hearted River in my paper. As I recall, the protagonist (back from war, I think) goes...more
This collection is like all Hemingway - no wasted words, everything is pared down to it's essential, honest form. It's a collection of vignettes followed by related short stories. I think I focused on the Big Two Hearted River in my paper. As I recall, the protagonist (back from war, I think) goes...more
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Was in fact to be named "The Times of Our Lives" after the Greenday song before Gertrude Stein was all, "What are you, gay?"
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Heminway just really has a way with words... this one was a little harder for me to follow, but definately a great read.
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I am currently writing an essay about Nick's development throughout the book and how that helps us better understand Hemingway's dramatic themes such as war. I preferred Snows of Kilimanjaro.
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