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Anybody else out there who finds Hemingway's style almost completely unreadable?
Dave I have a 3-novel 'big book' (edition not listed in G.R.--it's that old!) and just finished 'The Sun Also Rises'. Now comes 'Farewell to Arms' next. Th…moreI have a 3-novel 'big book' (edition not listed in G.R.--it's that old!) and just finished 'The Sun Also Rises'. Now comes 'Farewell to Arms' next. The last, 'The Old Man and the Sea,' I had to read 40-plus years ago, and I may not read it again. I couldn't even describe 'Sun...' in the 'what did you think?' blank -- it's either 'almost unreadable' or the reader has to work so hard (and does, automatically) supplying so many thoughts and side-stories as the reading goes along, because Hemingway has stripped out nearly everything that 'we' usually respond to in a novel. I can't decide if forcing a reader to do so much is a good thing... or a bad thing... ?Wish me luck?(less)
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
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