/lit/ - Literature

Hemingway? More like HOGGINGway!

sometimes

>>18703840
More like Hemmingay aha

>>18703849

>>18703815
Hemingway is my best friend's father growing up. There were legit times I would go to sleep over, and not be sure I would wake up the next morning, because his dad was in his bedroom raging drunk and playing with his guns. Even looked like Hemingway.

>>18704049
i dont get it

>>18703815
I liked that short story about the horse racing dad that died.

>>18703815
There needs to be a specific word for that 50's barrel-chested, borderline skinny-fat male body that literally passed for "this is the strong guy" in old movies.

>>18704492
Dadbod

>>18704492
This sounds like the words of a woman

>>18703815
>reading americans

>>18705599
a phrase that passed all to quickly from sincerity to satire

>>18704492
He was athletic into his 50s
Eventually age, alcoholism and brain damage did make him a shadow of himself
But he had a better run than most.
He led an interesting life.

>>18704492
At that state he could still outbench >70% of men today, though.

>>18703815
Hemmy is DULLLLL
The only book I really liked by him was A Movable Feast

please suggest similar authors to picrel. Somebody suggested reading BM but i fell off at half because it seamed bluepilled and memed-up

>>18706060
Hemingway

>>18703815
honestly, I tried and gave up reading for whom the bell tolls in sixth grade (yes, I was really really trying to impress people) and I often think about picking it back up. old man and the sea and snows of kilimanjaro were both damn good.

I'm reading Islands in the Stream and I'm 140ish pages in and not really enjoying it. Does it get better or am I just getting filtered?

>>18703815
Honestly, love the man and some of his stories, but he couldn't write for shit.

>>18706442
definitely pick it back up it is my favorite of his.

>>18706486
bullshit. Old Man and Farewell are masterpieces

>>18705657
This is more important than 99% of what /lit/ nerds understand.

>>18703815
Nah bro busy listening to nightcore and reading the Bible

>>18706707
Shut up Jason, you’re a rapist

>>18706889
Raping your mom was the most fun, your bussy is next

>>18704049
Aaah, sitting in Paris, writing my magnum opus, listening to the call to prayer. Truly a perfect day.

>>18706463

Islands in the Stream is composed of three unfinished books, published posthumously. It's probably quite different from the final draft he would have ended up writing, and at any rate, is incomplete. So no, you are not being "filtered".

However, because he was unable to finish the book(s), it would be unfair to judge him on Islands in the Stream. I would therefore recommend you read The Sun Also Rises.

>>18706889
Raping your mom was extremely fun

Your bussy is next

>commie
no thanks

>>18708035
kys