I don't like Hemingway

[Anonymous No.22450530]

Tell me what you like about Hemingway.

I read novel "The old man and the sea," and later "Across the river and into the trees." Some years went by, and I found copies of the collections of short stories "In Our Time" and "Men and Women" in my local library, which I read soon after.

And one thought still lingers in my mind: I don't get him. I don't feel much empathy with his characters. I don't like his prose. I don't like his stories. I feel as if I need to be an american man living in the 30s to connect with his worries.

Some stories I did like, such as "Indian Camp," "The three-day blow," "The undefeated," "Fifty Grand." But these are a few among many. And both novels I found boring, longwinded, like short stories with longer word count only for the sake of being a novel.

But both normal people and critics love him. What is so compelling about Hemingway?

[Anonymous No.22450537]

read capitol of the world and get back to me

[Anonymous No.22450543]

>>22450530
Why did you read his two worst novels first?

Also, if you don't like Big Two-Hearted River then you're broken.

[Anonymous No.22450549]

>>22450543
also, if old man and the sea is too long for you, maybe just consider YA and Netflix instead of reading.

[Anonymous No.22450582]

>>22450549
Hemingway is mid and The Old Man and The Sea sucks ass, faggot.

[Anonymous No.22450591]

>>22450543
>Why did you read his two worst novels first?
I prefer to read physical books, It was what I had access to in local bookstores. I live in a spanish-speaking countries, and I bought these when I found them in English.

>>22450549
I don't think is a long book. Just too long for what it is, like an extended short story.

[Anonymousn No.22450611]

>>22450530
>I don't get him.
I think you're wrong. I think you do you get him. At least, you've identified what makes him interesting for me:
>I feel as if I need to be an american man living in the 30s to connect with his worries.
For me, the interest of Hemingway is exactly in that projecting myself into this different, starker world, and feeling those big 30s slacks round my English shanks, and seeing the old New World lakes rippling around me, and remembering a lover standing silhouetted against the harshness of the sun, casting out her line out to water.

[Anonymous No.22450621]

>>22450530
>Tell me what you like about Hemingway.
I like that he is dead.

[Anonymousn No.22450624]

>>22450530
>I don't get him.
I think you're wrong. I think you do you get him. At least, you've identified what makes him interesting for me:
>I feel as if I need to be an american man living in the 30s to connect with his worries.
For me, the interest of Hemingway is exactly in that projecting myself into this different, starker world, and feeling those big 30s slacks round my English shanks, and seeing the old New World lakes rippling around me, and remembering a lover standing silhouetted against the harshness of the sun, casting out her line out to water. But if that's not your thing, or if you don't like humouring the idea that it's your thing, then you're not going to like him.

[Anonymousn No.22450632]

>>22450530
>I don't get him.
I think you're wrong. I think you do get him. At least, you've identified what makes him interesting for me:
>I feel as if I need to be an american man living in the 30s to connect with his worries.
For me, the interest of Hemingway is exactly in that projecting myself into this different, starker world, and feeling those bigman 30s slacks round my sorry English shanks, and seeing the old New World lakes rippling around me, and remembering a lover standing silhouetted against the harshness of the sun, casting out her line out to water. But if that's not your thing, or if you don't like humouring the idea of that being your thing, then you're not going to like him.

[Anonymous No.22450633]

>>22450530
*crack* *sip* For Whom the Bell Tolls my brother. Now that's a novel.