I Wanna Read Some Hemingway
Just ordered Nine Stories by Salinger and Eddie Huang's memoir. Wanna pick up some Hemingway too; never read him.
What are his best works?
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His most popular are The Old Man and the Sea & For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The Sun Also Rises is probably my favorite.
Agreed, the Sun also rises is a great book. I read it in high school and it's the first novel I think of when people mention Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms is very well-written as well, but quite depressing.
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+1 on TSAR
Also, a great short story you can find online for free is "Hills Like White Elephants". Do yourself a favor and don't read anything about it beforehand. It's one of the most perfect pieces I've ever read imho
Read the Old Man and the Sea first---its short and provides a great glimpse into Hemingway's writing style.
After that I'd read The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms
If you really like Hemingway then I'd read For Whom the Bell Tolls and To Have and Have Not
Hemingway is my favorite author but understand why some people don't get/don't like his style. Only proceed if you actually enjoy Old Man and the Sea.
@"Frieds" probably has some good recommendations
@"AndyLouis" Thanks for the nod.
@"GoldenCinderblock", I'd actually say to avoid his longer works and stick to his short fiction. While I love A Farewell to Arms and did enjoy The Sun Also Rises, some of his other novels are worth reading too. I enjoyed Islands in the Stream and To Have and Have Not. I've also enjoyed his non-fiction works too. I really loved The Green Hills of Africa, A Moveable Feast and his collection of published letters. The collection of letters, in particular, was a wonderful read. I honestly prefer his short stories to his longer works. They are fairly quick and rather enjoyable. I have a well worn copy of "The Complete Short Stories" and a kindle version just because I do enjoy picking up his short stories every so often.
Then again, whenever I think of Hemingway, it generally is accompanied by a Death in the Afternoon, a Daiquiri in the true style, a Bailey, a dry to the bone Martini or a Negroni, so go figure.
Oh yeah, Moveable Feast is his Paris memoirs. Terrific stuff.
For Whom The Bell Tolls, and also The Complete Short stories. Covers everything from hunting, drinking, outdoors, sex, and, uh....yeah. but great stuff, all of it.
I liked reading one of those stories on my commute. They're great.
Old man is massively overrated by legions of lazy English teachers eager for a short book to teach. It is absurdly overwritten and no serious critic considers it to be classic literature. Stick with the other works mentioned.
All of his shit is super depressing that's why they called them the lost generation.
I'd read them in the order in which they were written.
I personally think A Farewell to Arms is his best book. Followed by the Sun Also Rises, and then the Old Man and the Sea.
I think his kids also post-humorously published his memoirs which I've heard are quite exceptional.
The Sun Also Rises is fucking great. Only around 190 pages. For Whom the Bell Tolls is incredible, much longer, more plot and character development, very poetic.
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Thanks for the recommendations. Picked up:
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition (whatever that means) A Farewell to Arms The Old Man & The Sea
It has to do with the fact that the stories were collected from the original manuscripts from Finca Vigia, Hemingway's home in Cuba.
Should I start with the short stories?
Also excited about the Salinger short stories. James Franco's latest piece about refusing Lindsay Lohan sex made me wanna read a chick a bedtime story. This might be my new thing. I gotta get a wooden pipe and a smoking jacking.
omg I'm totally buying a smoking jacket.
GUYS where do I buy a smoking jacket?
His short stories are pretty awesome... I am also a massive fan of A Farewell to Arms.
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Do you guys read multiple books at once? I usually go through one at a time, but I really wanna read some of this leisurely shit I just got in the mail instead of the investment books my boss gives me.
I'm usually read a few at a time. Never been a problem.
At any given time, I'm reading between 4-6 books. Right now I'm reading Truman by David McCullough (won the Pulitzer, absolutely fascinating), The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, How To Win Friends and Influence People, a book that Mister Rogers wrote (can't think of the name), Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and I just bought Barbarians at the Gates.
In the next month or so when I finish all of them, I'll probably post a pretty lengthy review on here about each of the books I've read, as I've finished about 6 or 7 additional books since school ended last month.
FWIW, I was an English major in school and I hated Hemingway. Big fan of Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov and some other random authors like John Irving, Milan Kundera, Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, etc.
I've got a ton of book recommendations (I read way too much for my own good) if anyone is looking for anything
Recommend me something down lines of Dystopia, Like 1984, Clockwork Orange etc, Animal Farm. Fahrenheit 451.
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