[scubadude]

Just got done reading the book "Old man and the sea" Loved IT!!! if you havent read this book and like to fish, then please do yourself a favor and read it!! its a short book and only cost me 9bux brand new...and others that have read more of hemingways publishings then please tell what you thought. I would like to try some more of his books.

[Reinhold]

I've read every word Ernest Hemingway ever wrote, and most of his books twice.

I particularly liked The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls. The Green Hills of Africa and The Snows of Kilimanjaro are great too.

I usually am not a short story fan, but check out his short stories.

If you are into collecting books, especially first editions, ebay has a great selection.

[thezookeeper]

I love For Whom the Bell Tolls! Great literary masterpiece!


Joanne

[wgscott]

He went to my high school. Like me, he got mediocre grades in English. The similarities end there, however. We had to read loads of his stuff as a consequnce, which cured me of ever wanting to read anything else by him. I read one about bullfighting that was exceptionally tedious even by his standards. Only Hemmingway could ruin the Spanish Civil War.

[Reinhold]

wgscott:

You must be referring to Death in the Afternoon. If that was the first Hemingway book a person read, it would also be the last.

I have to go now. The high, blue sky, the aspen leaves quaking on the trees, falling into the clear, blue water, they call me. The Red Tailed Hawk, riding the currents in lazy circles, now I will be one with them forever...or else I have to go to the store.

[Mikeman]

I've never read any of his stories but I'll start now.... which one should I start with?

I'm reading a book called Guns, Germs and Steel, the smallest print I have ever read, even smaller than my version of shogun or The 3 musketeers,

right now I'm in to Chuck Pa Pa Pa...... I can't spell his name but his books include
Fight Club
Choke
Survivor
Invisalbe(sp) Monster(the only one I haven't read)

[wgscott]

You might want to try Death in the Afternoon. I hear it is really good. Or maybe A Farewell to Arms if you like stories about amputation.

[wgscott]

The Old Man and the Sea is also a great book because it slips easily into a jacket pocket, especially those old musty wool ones with the elbow patches that enable you to pose as a professor of literature. With that in hand, or in pocket, you should be able to hang out at cafes with French-speaking people that smoke filterless cigarettes. Cultivate a look of angst, and you might even be able to get laid this way without having to read the thing. But if you do, at least it is nice and short.

[FishKid]

he was an author? I always thought he was a boxer! (sadly, im not joking )

mark

[Reinhold]

fishkid:

Ernest Hemingway did some fighting in his day, and he had some memorable battles. He fought to a draw with Gertrude Stein (one tough broad) and just slaughtered a young Truman Capote. Capote quit boxing after that one and took up writing.

My favorite fighter of that era was John Steinbeck!

[Biomanjcs72]

I don't think he ever boxed (may be wrong), but I seem to remember a story about him being able to arm wrestle with the best of them. Read a few of his works, OMATS, of course, and some short stories, can't remember their names at the moment, but they were good ones. Opposite end of the globe, I like Jack London's works too.

[MEC]

Like WG everything I ever read by him I was forced to in High school. Totally boaring..Yawn....But yes he was a bit of a boxer. There is a bar in New Orleans I believe that pays tribute to him. Once a year they have a E. H. look alike contest.....Mike