Such a good book.
What are you currently reading?
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Schaaf
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Had a couple rainy days in the tent last week and read this book.
jwatts
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Just finished. It was the first book I've read by Hemingway. Definitely won't be my last. I enjoyed it more than anything I've read recently.
Irrelevant
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Thanks for the follow-up.
Man, old man and the sea, while just a novella, is spectacular. I also have found renewed enjoyment of for whom the bell tolls. But in general his short stories are his best work.
Sheltowee
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Huge, huge Hemingway fan here. I'd strongly recommend you pick up a copy of The Nick Adams Stories. Collection of short stories with many having an outdoors theme. "The Big Two-Hearted River" is spectacular. You can feel the cold river water running over the protagonist's toes and the tug of the trout on his fly line.
jwatts
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I'll add em to my list. Thanks
Wildabeest
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MTGamecock
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I just finished The Little Liar, by Mitch Albom. What a great little powerful novel. He could have easily written the story as an 800-page epic, but he managed to pack much the same punch into 330 pages. You can read it in a weekend (or less).
Islands in the Stream and The Nick Adams Stories should arrive Monday. Couldn’t help myself when I saw them posted here.
Read a few Hemingway books. Fantastic stuff. His writing style and tone really draw me in to the story, in a way others don’t.
I once read a NYT review from 1925 that describes his writing style perfectly, in my opinion.
“His language is fibrous and athletic, colloquial and fresh, hard and clean; his very prose seems to have an organic being of its own … Mr. Hemingway packs a whole character into a phrase, an entire situation into a sentence or two. He makes each word count three or four ways.”
Read a few Hemingway books. Fantastic stuff. His writing style and tone really draw me in to the story, in a way others don’t.
I once read a NYT review from 1925 that describes his writing style perfectly, in my opinion.
“His language is fibrous and athletic, colloquial and fresh, hard and clean; his very prose seems to have an organic being of its own … Mr. Hemingway packs a whole character into a phrase, an entire situation into a sentence or two. He makes each word count three or four ways.”
Sheltowee
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Hating on Hemingway for being an uber macho meathead is the cool thing to do for modern literary critics. That reputation is partially deserved because he cultivated that persona in the latter part of his life.
However, if his work is read much more closely, those critics would see his characters had much more depth and were often deeply conflicted between inner turmoil/self-doubt and the sense that they needed to put on a brave face for the benefit of those around them. Much like the man himself.
I've been reading nothing but the Ancient Greek classics for the past 5 months, and intend to spend a year on it. A neat surprise was the book "On Hunting" by the Greek general Xenophon, which I believe is the oldest surviving work on hunting (~380BC). Xenophon writes that it's a worthy pursuit for men to learn:
"The advantages that those who have been attracted by this pursuit will gain are many. For it makes the body healthy, improves the sight and hearing, and keeps men from growing old."
"The advantages that those who have been attracted by this pursuit will gain are many. For it makes the body healthy, improves the sight and hearing, and keeps men from growing old."
44hunter45
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Tree stand easy read.
jwatts
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Yall talked me into it.
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The Two Hearted was not actually the river he fished in Nick Adams........ like any fisherman he didn't want to burn his favorite spots.
I fish the river he mentions in his writing ......... but like any fisherman I'm not burning my spots either!
I fish the river he mentions in his writing ......... but like any fisherman I'm not burning my spots either!
WildWill
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Big fan of the show will have to read that one. But man that bow with the aluminum eastons is a blast from the past.
44hunter45
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It's a 1980's Hoyt Spectra 70#. Sentimental value.
44hunter45
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@WildWill - I'm too cheap to upgrade. I'm not that into it. I'm actually thinking I'd like to go more in the trad direction. I've got some Pacific Yew leaning against the wall in the basement. I've always wanted to make my own.
