The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Selected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

3.53 AVERAGE

jamichalski's review against another edition

4.0
Mixed bag…the best stuff is really some of the best ever written. A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Our nada, etc. Perfect story. But others can be a slog, especially the war ones, I hate to say. Even within a good story, it can be a slog to reach the good stuff—e.g.: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Brief Happy Life of Francis Macomber. The “almost stupid genius” (Lockwood) of Hemingway so often does not have space to breathe in the endless explanations of wars and games. Still, the quality of his prose is undeniable on a sentence level, particularly his world-class dialogue.

kkkruckow's review against another edition

3.0
Conflicted with this rating because on one hand his storytelling does a good job of putting me in whatever situations in a really cool way but on the other hand I now understand the hate for Hemingway. There were stories in here that truly were

laurenjoy's review against another edition

3.0
I did not expect this to be a series of short stories- but as it was, I really enjoyed it.

It was quite clear that the tales in the book were quite autobiographical- with details altered, which gave an interesting insight into Hemingway's passion for life in India and on the safari. Good quick read- not a summer favorite.

beachparrot's review against another edition

5.0
My favorite Hemingway short story.
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ejreadswords's review against another edition

5.0
adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

juniperwhiskey's review against another edition

1.0
I remembered liking Hemmingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and so I thought I would give this a chance. But I hated it. I don’t think I recognized the overdone angst of how difficult it is to be a man in the highest of class of privilege nor any incredibly sexist attitudes towards women in The Sun Also Rises, but this collection of stories was utterly dripping with the #firstworldproblems #whitemanproblems and #idon’tunderstandprivelage hashtags that it was difficult to finish. Thankfully, it was short.

burakkobas's review against another edition

5.0
Afrika'da enfeksiyondan ölmek to-do-list'e eklenmiştir

mrbootle's review against another edition

1.0
Half baked stories didn't really engage with me.

thekarmaticman's review against another edition

4.0
fast-paced

fjunur's review against another edition

5.0
My God, Hemingwway!