/lit/ - Literature

>>12384410
While obviously not an under-recognized author, I believe Hemingway's "Island In the Stream" to be his greatest, hidden gem, work, combining many aspects that made his other works decent but this time leaving out their flaws.

>>11847634
TSAR->Old Man and the Sea->Island in the Stream-> Short Stories->For whom the bell tolls -> A Farewell to Arms

Dont worry if you dont like TSAR, it is my second least favorite Hemingway novel but you should start with it.
>Island in the stream is sublime

Unironically my favorite Hemingway novel.

Island in the Stream

>>9677341
Got bored and annoyed with it half way through but someone here said how great it really was and after finishing it I agree.
Will definetly want to give it a reread sometime soon.

>>9513838
Hemingway is perfect for learning English. Stick to reading him.

>>9450362
I dropped this book multiple times just to pick it up again weeks later because of how horrible the dialogue is.

This book hit me like a brick. At first in a bad way, then in a good way.

"Sometimes he would put the lamp out and lie on the rug on the floor and watch the edges of color that the sea salt and the sand in the wood made in the flame as they burned. On the floor his eyes were even with the line of the burning wood and he could see the line of the flame when it left the wood and it made him both sad and happy. All wood that burned affected him in this way. But burning driftwood did something to him that he could not define. He thought that is was probably wrong to burn it when he was so fond of it; but he felt no guilt about it"

>>8836390