Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

Postby Penitent » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:30 am

This is literature at its best. Hemingway's deceptively easy and simple writing stile makes reading a pleasure. Let Hemingway tell you a story…
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Postby Monsoon » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:54 pm

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.
While a tiger eyed its prey and an eagle raged in a thunderous sky a river of darkness fell upon a burning sun and the wolf cried tis a time to die, thus did the angels weep as power and triumph in those golden eyes did creep.


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Postby Penitent » Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:31 pm

Yes, Hemingway is a great storyteller and I think it's the style that makes him.
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Postby Son of the Silver Fox » Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:24 am

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".
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Postby Penitent » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:02 am

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.
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