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Entertaining enough, and taught me something about the characters and the lives of the literary set of the time, but I wanted to scream at Hadley on several occasions. And poke Ernest in the eye. Seriously- if another woman slips into bed on the other side of your husband and you just lie there and go back to sleep you deserve everything you get! The way this is written gives the feeling that the Hemingways are controlled by influences outside themselves and just drift along waiting for the inev
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I started off by listening to the audio book of this, read by Carrington MacDuffie, who has a wonderful voice - but it was taking me too long, so I switched to reading the print version. I enjoyed it, but not quite as much as I'd hoped to. The opening and closing sections are strong and compelling, but I feel the book sags in the middle at times.
Earlier this year I read and loved A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. With that great memoir fresh in my mind, I was intrigued by the idea of a novel ...more
Earlier this year I read and loved A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. With that great memoir fresh in my mind, I was intrigued by the idea of a novel ...more
Is it possible to enjoy a book when you loathe each character more with every chapter? Apparently it is. An interesting story that makes you once again ask the question 'must you be a troubled narcissist to be a genius artist'? If we gave all artists antidepressants would anyone create anything? I do find it very sad that Ernest and six family members have committed suicide. There is a documentary by Mariel Hemingway called 'Running From Crazy' that explores what she calls the curse of the Hemin
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Although Hemingway is considered one of the four great misogynists of American literature, this book rendered him human, emotionally vulnerable, and damaged. That said, I actually cried for Hadley, and envied her at once, as a woman who did not fear living for love and giving it up in the same of love for the other.
It took me a really long time to get through this book. I can't decide if it was the material, the characters, the story, or the writing style. This book is an interesting look at Hemingway's "Paris Wife" (Hadley). I am not sure whether I really like it or not. In some ways, I found it to be well written and interesting, and in other ways, it dragged on and on with lots of name dropping and facts that were dull and dry. This book felt much like an enigma the way Hemingway was described in the ve
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I knew next to nothing about Hemingway's life so this was quite informative as well as laring somthing about the realationship he had with his first wife. She was an interesting person.
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I have been reading some of Hemingway's short stories, and realized that it isn't his writing that I don't like, it's the topics of his writing: Killing big-game animals in Africa, glorifying Bullfighting.
However, I did like this book. ...more
However, I did like this book. ...more
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