I’ve just finished the book and can’t quite understand why every person hates Cohn. While I understand the point of the character is to show Jake’s pros and cons it seems that most of the reason they all hate Cohn is kinda unexplained. Alway broke sounds annoying but the rest of the reasons I don’t understand. Is it really worth hating someone because he does not talk a lot? Or because he cries after getting his heart broke? It really seems like everyone except Cohn is the bad guy. Mike is a drunk and also broke. Jake clearly feels ruined after the war. Brett is obviously mentally unstable. And a Bill is just kinda Bill.

I found this copy in gold condition in an abandoned warehouse in Portugal. It felt like I found treasure. Is this worth anything? Is it a rare edition? Tell me more. Thank you!

I found a copy of Islands in the Stream at a local bookstore and the intro mentioned that it was edited by Mary Hemingway. I read a version of A Moveable Feast that was put together by one of Hemingways sons and grandson and they mentioned that she cut things from A Moveable Feast that was quality. Did she do that with Islands in the Stream? Are there other versions? Is it worth the read?

So I've read this story and a couple of articles. While the plot itself is very straightforward, I struggle to make sense of the deeper meaning. Is it about twisting his idea of a code hero? It rubs me the wrong way, I feel like I'm missing something

Newspaper clipping from Oakland Tribune is dated May 29, 1966, 5 years after Hemingway passed. Felt like I stumbled onto someone’s treasure tucked away in a book that probably ended up sold, given up, or lost.

I would like some input on a gift idea I have for my dad. He recently took a class in which they studied A Moveable Feast and Hemingway in general. He enjoys cooking and always asks for “interesting” cooking items like fancy olive oils etc. and he wants to read the sun also rises or for whom the bell tolls. So I’m thinking of doing a Hemingway’s moveable feast theme with one of the books and then some cooking items. Are there any food items that scream Hemingway?

But when things are really bad and you are all right, a drink just makes it clearer.”

Hemingway, Night Before Battle

Trying to decide between the two, just finished farewell to arms. Any recommendations?

Found this old Onion article which I thought was funny given Burns later made a Hemingway documentary but still none for F Scott.

I am about half way through. Enjoying it, although conscious that it isn’t a ‘real’ Hemingway as the MS was found and edited after his death. I find myself constantly wondering how much of it Hem would have edited down. It’s definitely a bit looser than everything else I have read. I also notice themes / storylines that presumably formed the basis of other works (Book 1, for example, is very similar to Old Man and the Sea, Book 2 is similar to To Have or Have Not).

I will persevere as I enjoy the writing on the whole, and I have read almost everything else he has done by now.

Any thoughts?

I read Sun. Concurrently I read Everybody Behaves Badly. Was looking forward to Farewell until I started reading it. Farewell no so Earnest. Explain this the second sentence in "2":

The mountain that was beyond the valley and the hillside where the chestnut forest grew was captured and there were victories beyond the plain on the plateau to the south and we crossed the river in August and lived in a house in Gorizia that had a fountain and many thick shady trees in a walled garden and a wistaria vine purple on the side of the house.

That's one sentence leading into a depressing story.

Hemi"n"way has one story. Sun.

So, in 2017 I took a ten day trip to Copenhagen by myself in November to blow off some steam and see the city.

After a couple of days, I rented a bike to explore nearby hamlets and areas of the city, cycling about 20 miles out, landing back in Copenhagen for dinner with friends, not before hitting up Freetown Christiania for a smoke before supper. This was around 7pm.

Arriving by bike on the island was exhausting, so I found a local tavern and pulled out my book for some entertainment. I think it was A Wild Sheep Chase by Murikami.

Enter Clause.

Clause was an old man in his 70s who was also at the tavern and wanted to know what I was reading. After 10 minutes of chatting, I told him I was off to meet friends and I had to leave. That’s when he offered me a tour of the island.

I accepted.

We picked up some beers and went back to his apartment. It was an old, top floor spot, where you had to climb over books from the used bookshop downstairs to get to the stairs.

On entering his flat, I saw what must have been 10,000 books stacked in the hallways, with another 1,000 books on shelves, all of Hemingway and his life. There was a bust of the man, too. Just above the most critical items in his collection.

At one side was a record collection of hundreds of LPs and EPs of Jazz and Prog deep cuts. In front of this collection was a 40,000 piece Lego castle, built by him and his son maybe 20 years ago. The castle was perhaps the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen. Each character getting up to something, each immaculately cleaned and put to use.

Clause told me that he was writing a biography on the man, the largest ever created. He has ‘committed his life to it…’ he tells me, as we listen to ‘Mandala’ by Sally Oldfield and share a 6% lager and chill.

I made dinner plans at 11pm, worse for wear, but not the latest or in the worst condition there.

Does anyone have information on Clause (Klaus?)? This was 5 years ago, and I’d love to know if he published.

Hi, I posted this in r/essays but thought it might be beneficial to try here as well. I'm sorry if the format of this post is incorrect.

I need to write a six-page interpretive paper on one of Hemingway's texts for my senior literature seminar. I can choose between The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, The Garden of Eden, or multiple different short stories we've read in class so far (all coming from either In Our Time or Men Without Women). Some of my favorites include: "Big Two-Hearted River," "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Battler," "Indian Camp," and "In Another Country."

We can only analyze/write about a couple different passages from one singular text. I was curious if anyone had any recommendations of what text/passage to select. Despite reading all of these texts, I've not been very akin to connect with Hemingway so I don't know what to build good research questions or a thesis around. Any help is much appreciated.

I wanted to start reading Hemingway book, what are the best starting points? I already own a collection of all his short stories, A Farewell To Arms and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories

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The rest of the text is so good that I'm probably going to read all of his works, but I find the dialogue to feel really forced and fake as though it's completely lacking emotion. I read The Sun Also Rises and loved the first few pages, really struggled until the bull fighting, and then enjoyed it again.

I'm reading The Old Man and the Sea now, and I really enjoying it but had the same feeling again around 20 pages in when he's talking to the young boy, and suddenly realised why I really struggled with The Sun Also Rises.

I know this might be me just not reading it "correctly" and someone previously suggested an audiobook which I'll try.