papa Hemingway

[rocker1972]

Everybody on this board is first and foremost a SK fan, but everybody is well read. So have anybody read Papa, I read Fiesta: the sun also shines, had to read a explanation re romance between two main characters. Saw the film with Gary Cooper. ithink it was a farewell to arms also read A moveable feast set in paris. Fiesta is about the American expats in the roaring 20's. he was married 6 times I think?. There was a film set in WWI with an young hemingway in love with a nurse 6 years his senior. Sandra Bullock played the nurse.


In paris, he knew f.scott fitzgerald and jimmy joyce,

 

[skimom2]

Aside from the short story, A Clean Well Lighted Place, I'm not much of a fan. I like Fitzgerald quite a bit more.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Do you want me shoot thee, English? It is nothing. I've read almost everything Hemingway has written including a number of biographies including the biggy, Carlos Baker's Papa. Islands in the Stream, the Nick Adams Stories, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man & The Sea, the lesser-known stories. I think Bellow had Hemingway in mind when he said/wrote something about how when the American writer fails to write about anything that is not thoroughly familiar, he confesses the weakness of the imagination...and relegates it to a lesser place in the toolbox. Poor Papa thought one had to experience everything before one could write about it, and in a sense, that is Jacob Horner. I like Hemingway's stories...I'm a fan...and I do not think one need be a fan to appreciate the impact his writing has had on the American (and foreign) mind.

 

[Kurben]

Not read so much of Hemingway i'm sorry to say. One novel and some shortstories. One of the many black holes of reading i probably should do.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

Not a fan of Hemingway. The End.

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I should like him, I'm was a Lit major in college and I have my HS teaching degree in English but I cannot stand his stuff.

 

[Kurben]

Well, i can't really judge since i read so little but what i read didn't give an itch to read more.

 

[Moderator]

Tried reading The Sun Also Rises but couldn't finish it and have never tried anything else.

 

[Bev Vincent]

I liked The Old Man and the Sea. Islands in the Stream was playing on my first airplane flight back in 1978. It seemed to go on forever.

 

[Dana Jean]

Old Man and the Sea was too much like The Grapes of Wrath. Let the f'ing fish go.

 

[doowopgirl]

I read a few Hemingway books and just thought all the characters were a bunch of whiners. So glad I'm not the only one.

 

[Kurben]

I liked The Old Man and the Sea. Islands in the Stream was playing on my first airplane flight back in 1978. It seemed to go on forever.

I like the song! Especially the duetversion with Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson. Beats Hemingway any day.

 

[Lily Sawyer]

I like the song! Especially the duetversion with Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson. Beats Hemingway any day.

Pssst.....it was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

 

[Kurben]

Pssst.....it was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers.

Oh, sorry.... Anyway I like it!

 

[rocker1972]

I actually tried to read a moveable feat *2 and a farewell to arms. I don't know why English lit like him so much. I have read The sun also rises. it was ok

 

[staropeace]

Hate him

 

[GNTLGNT]

...to me, he is the surest cure for insomnia known to humankind...

 

[carrie's younger brother]

I should like him, I'm was a Lit major in college and I have my HS teaching degree in English but I cannot stand his stuff.

"I'm was a Lit major"
Yeah, sure I was! lol

 

[Out of Order]

"I'm was a Lit major"
Yeah, sure I was! lol

Love the Avatar CYB!!

 

[fljoe0]

Aside from the short story, A Clean Well Lighted Place, I'm not much of a fan. I like Fitzgerald quite a bit more.

I read Gatsby earlier this year and I read The Sun Also Rises a long time ago (so I may be fuzzy on details) but it seems that there were similarities with the time period and wealthy characters. The Sun Also Rises bored me and I thought Gatsby was great. So there is my simplistic comparison.

But to be fair, I like many of Hemmingway's short stories but I've always found the novels a little difficult to get into (I think Sun is the only one I actually finished but I started others ).