![]() I was surprised when read few negative comments here. And if you ever plan to go to Paris, you must hear this book! If you enjoy reading first hand accounts of important literary figures, you'll love this book. So if you've thought Hemingway was too heavy for your taste, you still may really enjoy this book. ![]() The frank and irreverant observations are even more fun considering our current celebrity obsessed culture. He's also not sure if having to rub shoulders with these other soon to be iconoclastic characters is worth his while either. ![]() ![]() Hemingway's view of the world is still pretty macho - but he's also struggling with money and not sure if he'll ever be a success at this point. This collection of memoirs reads more like short stories, and the short stories are even more fascinating because they're based on real people and events. But this work is nothing like the gut wrenching drama in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" or "The Son also Rises". ![]() But after "Farewell to Arms" I quickly realized how this man drop-kicked a whole new level of intensity into literature. I honestly didn't read any Hemingway until 20 year after I learned who he was (and that was mostly because of his super-model offspring). ![]()
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