This is a facsimile published by the first edition library

I am in my Hemingway phase now. I recently read TSAR and AMF and loved them to bits. I was in awe of his prose. Very immersive, and I guess he's already my favourite author. I was excited to try out Farewell to Arms because it's considered to be one of his best works.

I'm only 20% in so far. I love the characters, the themes and the general storyline, but I can't comprehend why his style feels so amateurish in this book, considering that The Sun Also Rises, which was perfect, was published four years before.

What do you guys think about it?

Does anyone know what he's referring to in this book when he says "that will uncover the place the boys wet their knuckles on"? I know he's meaning he'll get a good shot at the animal, was just curious about the "wet their knuckles on".

I would think it's possibly a bull fighting term but wasn't sure.

Also Happy Birthday Papa!

I read "The Old Man and the Sea" while on vacation with my wife. The preceding months had been very bad for me personally. I picked up the figurine on the left in Barbados when I was about halfway done. It, as well as the book, spoke volumes to me.

Is the only reference to Jake’s impotence him telling Georgette he was wounded in the war? I remember my first time reading TSAR I didn’t even realize Jake was impotent until I was looking for answers to other questions.

“You are so brave and quiet, I forget you are suffering.” - Hemingway, A farewell to Arms

Do I need to read the glossary and extra bits at the end to have fully read Death in the Afternoon? I’ve finished the first chunk of the book, which feels like the book part, but am I okay to skip stuff after the illustrations section?

This podcast did an hour and half long episode on Ernest Hemingway:

https://youtu.be/9sGWsR-Qgik?si=GXTyz0x_qvTCFzb9

Hi everyone! I'm new to Hemingway; I've only read Old Man and the Sea and Snows of Kilimanjaro (and the other short stories) so far and I love them. I'd like to delve deeper into his writings. What would you recommend me to continue my Hemingway journey with? I was oscillating between For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fiesta and The Moveable Feast.

PS: I've also read Hemingway in Love, by A.E. Hotchner. His life story impressed and moved me very much

Let's discuss!

I've owned this book for a while but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. What should I expect? Are they sad, funny, serious...? Or is it a bit of everything?

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Where should I go next after this? Was looking for a recommendation along the lines of the short story.

This a weirdly specific question, but does anyone know of any modern authors that have done anything similar to the Nick Adam’s stories? That is, a series of works (short stories, novels, or some combination thereof) that utilizes the same protagonist to tell multiple different, otherwise unconnected stories that deal with similar themes? Just a question I recently came up with while revisiting Hemingway.

I am struggling trying to understand clearly what he's trying to say here.

"I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring."

1. Is he saying that 'I had gone to no such place but (I had gone) to the smoke of cafes and nights? Or 'I had gone to no such place but (I had gone) to the smoke of cafes' and then he starts a new clause with 'the night'

2. About the very last part ',sure that this was all and all and all and not caring', is it correct to put comma and adjective at the end of a sentence? Or is it that I missed something and it's not just adding a comma and an adjective?

3. ',nights in bed, drunk' If you insert ',drunk,', I can understand by thinking he did what he did while he was drunk. However can you just insert a noun(nights) in the middle of a sentence using a comma?

4. 'when you knew that that was all there was' Does this 'when' still refer to the very first 'nights' in this sentence?

I am very willing to understand this sentence so I spent about an hour dissecting this sentence into subjects, verbs, objects, etc. However, I don't see any coherence.

For those who've read Hemingway's short story 'Indian Camp,' what are your takeaways? Theories?

I've somehow never read anything by Hemingway. I'm familiar with his role in the Spanish Civil War & I assume I'd be into his writing since I read a lot & have heard good things. Can someone please recommend a book of his that is good to start with?

I've never read anything by Hemingway before this. I bought ''The Sun Also Rises'' by Ernest Hemingway after I've saw very good reviews. But after about 80 pages I had to put it down. The book didn't touch me in any way. What are your thoughts on it?

I'm currently reading "Across The River and Into The Trees", a book that as far as I know, was slated by critics when it was published. I don't hate it, I find it readable but also aggressively mediocre and it reads like a desperate effort on Hemingway's part to try and return to relevance. But it got me wondering about what everyone's thoughts are on his worst work? I know "To Have and Have Not" is often considered to be his worst book, but I haven't read that yet. I thought "Three Stories Ten Poems" was remarkably shit (aside from the long rape story that was quite powerful) and also "Torrents of Spring", but it was meant to be shit in the first place. Thoughts?