Sophie’s Reviews > The NICK ADAMS STORIES. Preface by Phillip Young. > Status Update

This isn’t my favorite style of Hemingway’s writing. Some read better than others but most of them have the same sense of repetitive wording and jumbled sort of plot line.

The harsh realities of being a war veteran, so sad reading about the PTSD.

The good country has been the longest but one of my favorite reads so far!

The writing in these is a bit confusing. Not sure if it’s the repetitive dialogue or what

The first two stories about young “Nick” grappling with mortality and death and his witness of suicide PLUS the conversation with his dad that “not very men die by suicide” and his childhood revelation that he’d never die is very poetic and indicative of his adulthood and untimely death in real life.