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Hemingway is like the misogynistic uncle with the great stories he always tells over the dinner table. You can't help but love to hear him talk, and even though it's clear he's trapped in an emotional prison and stuck in the values of the previous generation, you can sense the genuine feeling behind his words.
I am torn by my love of Hemingway. His sentences are brutish and cold and his dialogue (especially that of his female characters) is simply incepid:
"Oh now darling do be a dear and don't b ...more
I am torn by my love of Hemingway. His sentences are brutish and cold and his dialogue (especially that of his female characters) is simply incepid:
"Oh now darling do be a dear and don't b ...more
I loathed it!
I liked "The Sun Also Rises" a lot more. I know this is a classic and all but I just did not care for it that much.
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