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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
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
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Loveable characters:
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Diverse cast of characters:
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I’ve enjoyed all the stories but I found The Short Life of Francis Macomber not to be as interesting as the rest because I read it before.
In Five Grand, I really enjoyed the boxing match but didn’t understand what was that special about the wife. Parts of it were repetitive.
In Five Grand, I really enjoyed the boxing match but didn’t understand what was that special about the wife. Parts of it were repetitive.
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s short, but it’s so emotionally intense that I found myself in tears twice. The way Hemingway captures the protagonist’s reflections on his life felt so real and raw. The hallucination of his rescue tricked me at first. It broke my heart when I realised it was all in his head while he was dying. I wish he had been given a second chance to fulfill his dream of being a writer. But sometimes in life, second chances don't come. That's a lesson I’ll carry with me.
The wording was a little rough and it was hard to hold my interest
Read this for a class yesterday, and I really loved it a lot.
Harry is the protagonist of the story, dying stranded in the mountain with his wife, Helen. Throughout the story we see his regrets he have as he haven’t wrote stuff that could have been good. We see the flashbacks of the stories he had in his head that he have never wrote, and on he becomes despicable, insulting his wife constantly. Despite this, Helen loves him and remain hopeful that the airplane will come for the rescue. As more as the story goes on, the more things unfolds till the end which is the best part of the story. The ending did me fooled really good.
Definitely check this out.
Harry is the protagonist of the story, dying stranded in the mountain with his wife, Helen. Throughout the story we see his regrets he have as he haven’t wrote stuff that could have been good. We see the flashbacks of the stories he had in his head that he have never wrote, and on he becomes despicable, insulting his wife constantly. Despite this, Helen loves him and remain hopeful that the airplane will come for the rescue. As more as the story goes on, the more things unfolds till the end which is the best part of the story. The ending did me fooled really good.
Definitely check this out.
It is no surprise that Hemingway took his life. It was a miserable mind to be in. Men are not men until they prove their invulnerability and lack of real interest in living. In Hemingwayland any sign of connection to others is read as weakness. Women filled with scorn are just waiting to (figuratively) castrate the men in their lives. But that man was the shit when it comes to crafting perfect elegant prose, telling the reader everything she needs to know with heart-stopping beauty and relentless economy. In the short stories the reader can engage in the situation with excitement and fascination and be done before the characters' vapidity and compulsiveness gets boring and vulgar. Reading Hemingway's novels is kind of like watching the Kardashians. For 10 minutes its amazing and you can't look away. Then, like a switch has been flipped, all the watcher feels is boredom and contempt and occasionally a sprinkling of sadness. "Kim Kardashian IS Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises!" But I digress. My point is that the short stories are filled with interest, and substance and beauty, and stunning craft where the books often feel to me like writing exercises. I had read most of these stories before in other collections, but this is well curated and a great way to return and remind myself why I used to really like Ernie.
4.5 stars
The story doesn't make a lot of sense when you first read it but as you look back you realize it has endowed you with a profound sense of nostalgia and a general feeling of sadness about how fast life goes away and how prone we are to waste it thinking there will always be time for what we want to do.
The story doesn't make a lot of sense when you first read it but as you look back you realize it has endowed you with a profound sense of nostalgia and a general feeling of sadness about how fast life goes away and how prone we are to waste it thinking there will always be time for what we want to do.