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This is literature at its best. Hemingway's deceptively easy and simple writing stile makes reading a pleasure. Let Hemingway tell you a story…

I've read 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', i must say it was a little difficult at first adapting to his writing style but i got used to it and funnily enough i think it made the final scene all the more moving because of the style.

Yes, Hemingway is a great storyteller and I think it's the style that makes him.

Penitent,
I finally disagree with your opinion of an author.
I have read a few of his novels and don't know why they are catagorized as "classics".

I like everything he wrote, especially the sort stories.
The one I hate is “The Sun Also Rises”, being from Spain I thought he really had no idea what he was writing about. One misunderstanding in general is that people thing that Hemingway writes about places; Spain, Africa.. but what he really does is writing about people on those places. In the case of “Sun Also Rises” about a bunch of American tourists occupied in being drunk 24hrs a day.