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"Great News From The Mainland" - Seriously, I don't know who deserves more of my sympathy. Tragic.

"I Guess Everything Reminds You Of Something" - Sad. The saddest yet...the story itself reeks of lost innocence; but not of a child.

"Landscape With Figures" - Unless a person has fought in a battle, no television drama or nightly newsreel can affect us to its effects.

"Black Ass At The Crossroads" - This is NOT about what you would guess.

"The Porter" - A sudden but subtle use of symbolism...I wonder if rain is meant to symbolize death in all of Hemingway's works.

"A Train Trip" - A nice little thriller bogged down by distracting run-ons and sprinkled with a dash of ethical hypocrisy.

I knew Maya Angelou could write, but the plain and fluid quality of her prose transparently exposes her perspective in an almost pleasurable way.

White privilege is never having to learn to quiet the raging in your soul.

"An African Story" - Stewardship differs from usary and dominance and does not isolate us above nature.

America the beautiful...

More like The Winter of our Disillusionment...

Gotta ask: Is Hermann Hesse one of J.K. Rowlings influences? In Steppenwolf, HARRY Haller befriends HERMIONE, his female counterpart. In this book, the school sounds like the spitting image of Hogwarts...is it me?

An insightful coming-of-age story more representative of man's general ascent/descent through life - but not quite as sophisticated or abstract as Demian.

"The Last Good Country" - A great story, my favorite of the Nick Adams pieces thus far. Kinda pissed Hemingway didn't finish it.

Dostoyevsky's brilliant ideas notwithstanding, people too often fail to praise him for his command of literary devices.

After reading, re-reading sections, taking notes and writing passages for two and a half hours, I'm on page 9. Yea, Big D!

Some of you out there will appreciate this...http://t.co/YZCl8CQ

If a government ever wanted to burn books, they should start with Bradbury's. This dude can WRITE!

So Bradbury must have published this...when...yesterday?

"Summer People" - Rhythmic. The bliss of youthful summer with an odd hint of tension and uncertainty.

"A Man of The World" - Sympathy both withheld and unwelcome. The world produces both flaws and blessings and because of this men can always find common ground.

"Get A Seeing-Eyed Dog" - On several occasions, Hemingway presented men in awkwardly vulnerable situations but he paints the woman as the victim.

"The Faithful Bull" - The irony of instinct...

"The Good Lion" - An interesting fable with a distinct Hemingway touch.

"Nobody Ever Dies" - Just when I began to find this book tedious, Hemingway exhibits a flash of brilliance. This story challenges our threshold for ideology and presents a higher truth which allows us to cope with its costs.

Of course, gotta stop for now...don't want to. Good book.

Exciting!

I'd be proud to have my children read this.

Very, very impressive...a definitive and powerful application of metaphor

"This is Morgan's book from her Daddy. I love you, Mo!" It's the little things that make used books precious...