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543 reviews for:
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Selected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
3.53 AVERAGE
543 reviews for:
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Selected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
3.53 AVERAGE
medium-paced
3.5 stars
Really LOVED The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean, Well-Lighted Space, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Amazing stories.
The other stories were okay, not my cup of tea.
Really LOVED The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Clean, Well-Lighted Space, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Amazing stories.
The other stories were okay, not my cup of tea.
My brain kept playing The Lovesick Blues reading this, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The feeling these short stories evoke is genius, now some of my favourites.
I think I've read all these stories before, but they're all still brilliant. I know its out of fashion to like Hemingway, and he has plenty of problems and horrible opinions and all these reasons for readers to turn on him, but I would be lying if I said his writing weren't among my very favorites.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The short stories I enjoyed:
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
- Fathers and Sons
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
The stories I thought were okay:
- A Day’s Wait
- In Another Country
- The Killers
- A Way You’ll Never Be
- Fifty Grand
The stories I didn’t like:
- The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio
Short and depressing, much like everything else he wrote.
There is a limit to my capacity for stories about war and Hemingway certainly visits that setting often. So while he is not one of my favorites, I do like his journalistic style and his ear for dialog. My very favorite passages are usually descriptions of a person's world-view. I just don't get sick of reading a tight, specific, evocative summation of a certain person in a certain time and place. Example from "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber":
He knew about that, about motorcycles—that was earliest—about motor cars, about duck-shooting, about fishing, trout, salmon and big-sea, about sex in books, many books, too many books, about all court games, about dogs, not much about horses, about hanging on to his money, about most of the other things his world dealt in, and about his wife not leaving him.
He knew about that, about motorcycles—that was earliest—about motor cars, about duck-shooting, about fishing, trout, salmon and big-sea, about sex in books, many books, too many books, about all court games, about dogs, not much about horses, about hanging on to his money, about most of the other things his world dealt in, and about his wife not leaving him.
Perhaps this is heresy but... I just don't find Hemingway's work to be all that interesting. It just seems like macho tough guy bullshit and maybe-just-maybe there is something humanized and vulnerable deep down in there but I'm not so sure.
Were we talking about mortality?
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UPDATE (like… 9 years later): Then I actually read [b:Old Man and the Sea|2165|The Old Man and the Sea|Ernest Hemingway|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329189714s/2165.jpg|69741], which was pretty good and has some great stuff in it. Anyway there's that.
Were we talking about mortality?
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Alternatively:
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UPDATE (like… 9 years later): Then I actually read [b:Old Man and the Sea|2165|The Old Man and the Sea|Ernest Hemingway|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1329189714s/2165.jpg|69741], which was pretty good and has some great stuff in it. Anyway there's that.