/lit/ - Literature

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>Hemingway's family hated it. His mother, Grace Hemingway, distressed that she could not face the criticism at her local book study class—where it was said that her son was "prostituting a great ability .... to the lowest uses"—expressed her displeasure in a letter to him:

>The critics seem to be full of praise for your style and ability to draw word pictures but the decent ones always regret that you should use such great gifts in perpetuating the lives and habits of so degraded a strata of humanity .... It is a doubtful honor to produce one of the filthiest books of the year .... What is the matter? Have you ceased to be interested in nobility, honor and fineness in life? .... Surely you have other words in your vocabulary than "damn" and "bitch"—Every page fills me with a sick loathing.[104]

Grim. What on Earth was the appeal here?

desk of my gym are doing a book exchange, what do I give her?

I'm leaning towards the Sun also Rises, Notes From the Underground and The Sound and the Fury.

For reference, she reads Bridgerton tier stuff.