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During January we will be reading a book by Hemingway. Please vote for the book you would like to read by January 31st.
Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sun Also Rises
Across the River and into the Trees
The Garden of Eden
True at First Light
The Torrents of Spring
To Have or Have Not
Under Kilimanjaro
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What! no happy endings :eek: !!
I've actually never read Hemingway. I've chosen The Old Man and the Sea because the description on the cover made me think of Toilers of the Sea by Hugo and Moby Dick by Melville; two novels that I loved.
Gah, Old Man and the Sea can not win. That book drives me wacko!!!! It is about a guy, in a boat, catching a fish!!!! I need more than that. Yes, there are some morals and mumble jumble, but when you get down to it... it is a guy, in a boat, catching a fish.... Maybe this is why classics end up boring me?
I've pretty much read it all except for the Garden of Eden.
"Garden" is a terrible book that Hemingway never tried to publish when he was alive. It is like a very rough first draft of a novel.Quote:
Originally Posted by B-Mental
Oh, there's good Hemingway and bad Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms is good Hemingway. The best Hemingway is his short stories. On balance, I think he's a better short story writer than novelist.
How can I choose just one???
somebody tell me which one to choose first one to pm with a choice and a reason Ill vote for
:D
Choose A Farewell to Arms; it's got a good love story.
I just hope that if we choose a love story, it won't be as graphic as the November book.
I don't know what the November pick was, but A Farewell to Arms is not graphic at all.
Nope, nothing graphic about A Farewell to Arms. It's been a few years since I read it, but if I remember properly it was an enjoyable book as long as you like Hemingway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I got a laugh out of your remark. For a writer who lived such a bohemian life, Hemingway was amazingly ungraphic about sex in his three love story novels. Unless you consider "and the earth moved" graphic. That's about as far as he ever went.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shea
You would definitely have trouble reading "Lady Chatterly's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence. It would probably set your eyebrows on fire.
:lol: :blush: I know I'm rather prudish. I've never had a desire to read Lady Chatterly's Lover either :lol: . After trying to read, Love in the Time of Cholera, I've been skeptical about picking up another 20th century book with love in it until I've had the chance to recover.
Thanks for the reasurrance. :D