Gary’s Comments (group member since Jul 26, 2009)

Gary’s comments from the The Importance of Reading Ernest group.

say it, brad,say it!!

Meredith wrote: "i have a book called "walks in hemingway's paris" and did my own self-guided tour. it's not formal, but it's still fun!


Title, Author, isbn #???

think i'd rather be trampled by bulls, or gored. at least, i'd get hero worship out of it.

Brad wrote: "I'd be in if there was a way to afford it, but I think it should be worked out so that we could end in Pamplona. That way Gary and I could get into a fist fight ;)"

fist fight?

oh wow! would 20 bucks a month for 2 years cover it???

I think it does show in his texts.That's the point,isn't it??? Don't mean to speak ill of the dead,but I truly believe that many of the characters and situations in his stories,and novels, do dwell with his homosexuality, or bisexuality whichever it was. The man did his best with all the "macho" stuff to hide his true identity, but then it resurfaces in his works,and I really do think it reflects the man he truly was.

have you been to oakpark, meredith, to hemingway's birthhome, boyhood home,and the hemingway museum there?? i am dying to go. however, the expense of the motel bill is scaring me off right now. love to also do the frank lloyd wright homes in the area too. have you done any of that?

I'd also have my copy of A MOVEABLE FEAST with me. Has anyone heard that a new movie is being made on ISLANDS OF THE STREAM?????

i think we should do a hemingway paris tour as a book club. how fantastic would that be? i've done it myself - twice - i know, i'm a loser, but it would be great to have people to share it with who love hem as much as i do. thoughts?


ohmigod Meredith!! yes! i would fuckin love it!!! also like to go to SHAKESPEARE & CO,and buy a copy of THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME,and start to read it inside the church! Get a coffee,and also stroll the hemingway trail past his apartments and stuff. That would be super,and if you went along since you've already been, you could give us some added comments on the tour!

here's a review i saw,and it needs to be posted for all to read. i voted for it. you might want to do the same.

gary

Kim's review of The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition


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The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigía Edition
by Ernest Hemingway
Kim's review
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bookshelves: maurice, short-stories
status: Read in August, 2009

So, I didn’t read the Complete short stories of Hemingway. I wanted an introduction, I’d always thought of Hemingway as..well, I’d never really given him much thought. He was just someone I wasn’t interested in reading. Lord help me, I can be dense.


I’ve read about a dozen of the stories in this anthology. I asked my husband for his opinion on which ones I should start with and I think that I’ve read a fair sampling, I’ll probably continue to pick this up every now and then and throw another one down. Some of these stories are what I expected of Hemingway. When I think of him, I see a large man, with a gun and a cigar and hell bent on killing something. I see wilderness and war, I see the old sea captain and the disillusioned writer in the euro café. And sometimes I see my grandfather but that just might be the Gary Cooper influence.


I was expecting the hunting, fishing, wilderness angle and The Big Two Hearted River Part I & II delivered with a yawn. The morality of The Good Lion and The Faithful Bull was fine and dandy and the cleverness of Homage to Switzerland wasn't lacking. These stories didn't give me that jaw dropping, must read everything effect that I so often hope for, but they were well written and entertaining.. Mostly, they were short and bearable.


Now the ones that I can truly say blew my Havana lovin', Zelda hatin', Hemingway image apart were A Day's Wait, a quick 4 page story about a child thinking he is about to die and how he prepares for this. I was impressed with the emotion that was so quickly and brilliantly emoted. I remember when I was about six or so, I swallowed a penny and thought I was going to die. It's not a good feeling, people. I remember standing over my parent's bed trying to prep them for this. I totally relate to Schatz.


And the acerbic tone in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Seeing-Eyed Dog, Hills like White Elephants, and The Snows of Kilamanjaro were awesome. I've always been down with the cynical, the mean-spiritedness, and this somewhat frightens me that I'm so attracted to it, because I'm really trying to be a better person. Hell if I can't enjoy some of the nastiness.


My favorite of the bunch is the first story that I was told to read.. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. I'm sure many of you goodreaders are already aware of this gem, but I have to say even late to the game, I was just stunned by it. So short and so poignant. So beautiful. It makes me want to take on a sugar daddy so I can sit in European cafés mumbling nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.


I'm such a girl.

i was there in the spring and summer. so , it wasn't too bad !ha!

winnipeg, manitoba

you know where i picked up the habit of saying ,eh? at the end of my sentences?? i lived in canada for a short time. ha!

ha ha! glad the chicken was good. well, what i meant is they were trying to appear to be carefree with their party type behavior, etc. but it's obviously they really aren't covering that up so well, eh?

i read \quite a bit of your blog, gio. damn, you're hilarious! i'd love to meet you someday!

THE SUN ALSO RISES kinda reminded me of my close net of college friends. i mean not everything that happens in the book , happened to us, but we were carefree,and such just like the book,and yes, we had our issues too. lol!

. And there's more to say , but my tarragon chicken is beeping and I've got to go baste.

go on, brad, what were you going to say??

say more. chicken ok? or is it squawking in the oven????

There's a lot of hidden dynamite here, too, especially in the contrast between the highlands and the lowlands . .

explain this further, kevin? please? thanks!~

check out this website. it talks about the fight!