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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
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This is the best thing I’ve read from Hemingway. Have always been turned off by his of-the-era racism, misogyny, and homophobia, but that’s just par for the course and I try to overlook it.
The writing here is crisp and clear and he recounts one of the golden ages that any artist would love to have been a part of. Gertrude Stein seems as horrible as she must have been - a rich dilettante who saw herself as a the gatekeeper of modernism. Others come and go, and it’s a treat to get impressions from that scene. The tragic figure here is Fitzgerald, of course, who never lived to see his work get the proper respect it deserved.
The writing here is crisp and clear and he recounts one of the golden ages that any artist would love to have been a part of. Gertrude Stein seems as horrible as she must have been - a rich dilettante who saw herself as a the gatekeeper of modernism. Others come and go, and it’s a treat to get impressions from that scene. The tragic figure here is Fitzgerald, of course, who never lived to see his work get the proper respect it deserved.
I didn’t expect to read about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway talking about penis sizes but here we are
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Generally pretty good, the best parts were the chapters at the end regarding F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Those were definitely the most entertaining bits.
Brilliant. Fitzgerald could create a flawless story, Hemingway could create a flawless sentence.
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4.5 ⭐️
There were moments of reading this that the spirit of “Tatie” was palpable. You felt this energy that he couldn’t get the words on the page fast enough as he reminisces on better days. Days spent in such a unique period and place.
He balances these moments out with sad, mournful tales of people he knew and personal experiences. And some tales that just feel like a normal day in the life.
Fun. Easy. Spots of brilliant prose and commentary on life. A book to daydream by.
There were moments of reading this that the spirit of “Tatie” was palpable. You felt this energy that he couldn’t get the words on the page fast enough as he reminisces on better days. Days spent in such a unique period and place.
He balances these moments out with sad, mournful tales of people he knew and personal experiences. And some tales that just feel like a normal day in the life.
Fun. Easy. Spots of brilliant prose and commentary on life. A book to daydream by.
I don’t generally associate Hemingway and humor, but the chapters with him and F. Scott Fitzgerald in particular had me genuinely laughing out loud.
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Provides great snippets of a time and place a lot of us are thinking about constantly. What was Paris like in the 1920? I wonder what these artists were like in real life? Who IS Hemingway? This book provides an answer to all of these questions.