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1756350 No.1756350 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished this. I get why Hemingway's an important stylist, but man, does he suck as a storyteller.

>> No.1756360

what the fuck are you talking about this was amazing

>> No.1756365

>>1756350

I'd like you to know that everything about you as a human being is wrong.

>Go die

>> No.1756378

Disillusioned solider meets codependent nurse. They go to Switzerland. She dies.

>> No.1756391

I would say the complete opposite, that his style is no-style, but he has an incredible ability to create story from anything.

>> No.1756394

I haven't read A Farewell to Arms, but I tried to plow my way through For Whom the Bell Tolls. I can't stand it.

>> No.1756402

Sun Also Rises and Old Man and the Sea are the best.

>> No.1756413

>>1756391
Doesn't all writing have a style? Even dull things like technical manuals?

>> No.1756427

>>1756413

Yes. Even a cereal box has a style.

Hemingway's style is very cinematic, very minimilistic. I think it's a fantastic way of telling a story personally.

>> No.1756441

>>1756394
For Whom the Bell Tolls isn't the place to start. Try A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea or The Sun Also Rises if you want to enjoy his stuff.

>> No.1756532

>>1756365
go read lord of the rings again, fagaat

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1756570

>>1756532
Now look what you've done. In trying to insult someone you disagree with you have insulted the entire lotr fan base. Nice going.

>> No.1756824

>>1756570
are you serious, i really don't think anybody will seriously defend lord of the rings

>> No.1756854

>>1756824
I read it recently, and no I won't. Though I would the Hobbit.

Tolkiens world creation was impressive, but his storytelling less so...

>> No.1756915

>>1756854
Yea, and Tolkien still told stories better than Hemmingway.

Read A Moveable Feast in highschool... god. What a terrible fucking book. So god damn boring.

>> No.1756925

Read the old man and the sea or hills like white elephants and you'll change you're mind.

>> No.1756927

Are you serious? Hemingway is a great writer. His novels are his weakest work, they meander a bit too much, but all of his short stories, The Sun Also Rises and A Moveable Feast are all amazing.

>> No.1756936

>>1756927

>A Moveable Feast
>Amazing

Fuck no it wasn't. It was just him getting drunk in Paris. Boring. As. Fuck.

>> No.1756940

>>1756936
You will never experience the awesomeness of being drunk in paris

>> No.1756951

He did fall off after The Sun Also Rises. Tries to live up to the myth of Hemingway, tries to find some big truth. Earlier work is the best.

>> No.1756961

>>1756940

Currently drunk in China. Faaaaaar more interesting.

>> No.1756965

>>1756961
It can't be that interesting if you're on 4chan.

>> No.1756978

>>1756965

Everyone needs a break from Flip Cup now and again. The Japanese exchange kids are out of their fucking minds. They started throwing random shit in my room out the window, onto the freeway 6 stories below. Chinese need to look out for falling beer cans...

>> No.1756981

>>1756978

Already more interesting than A Moveable Feast

>> No.1757034

>>1756936
you're an idiot, and 20 years old. read hemingway 5 years from now when you stop being so fucking retarded

>> No.1757041

People who find hemingway's stories boring are missing the capacity to find meaning in a story that isn't full of action and imagination. It speaks to the shortcomings of the reader, not the story.

>> No.1757045

>>1757041
thank you for putting it so well. you are a gentleman and a scholar.

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1757046

>>1757045
i'm glad it resonated. now take some DFW

>> No.1757052

>>1757046
>>1757046
>>1757046

David Foster Wallace

>> No.1757053

>>1757052
>>1757052
>>1757052

Dallas Fort-Worth

>> No.1757061

>>1757046
>>1757046
>>1757046

Kenyon college inauguration speech

>> No.1757066

>>1757061
>>1757061
>>1757061
Barnes & Noble (original source)

>> No.1757072

oh /lit/, why so pretentious?

>> No.1757074

>>1757072
need sauce

>> No.1757082

>>1757046
>liberal arts degree
>material payoff

That guy always was hilarious.