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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
I wasn't expecting to like this book, since I had read a little of 'The Old Man and the Sea' in high school and could barely get through it. So, I was pleasantly surprised that I loved 'A Moveable Feast.' It helps that Hemingway is in "gossip queen" mode in this book (to quote a friend), and dishing all kinds of dirt on other famous authors, notably F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and that he devotes long passages in the memoir to beautiful, evocative descriptions of life in Paris. It's interesting to read both the original edition and this restored edition, which includes a really interesting chapter showing all of Hemingway's rewrites of the introduction, and several chapters omitted from the first publication.
Reading A Moveable Feast a few days before my departure to London, January 2000, marked the beginning of so much of what constitutes my aesthetics as an adult - and, of perhaps equal importance, my desperate love affair with Paris. Food and wine and art and personality and travel - I was smitten. It remains by far my favorite Hemingway.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
My seventh time through this book and it’s more beautifully written now than it ever was... ❤️
adventurous
inspiring
medium-paced
As much as I dislike Hemingway the man, this book is one of my absolute favorites that I come to time and time again. I am in Paris with him and his unsuspecting first wife, seeing it how they did one hundred years ago. magic!
Happy to finally have experienced this posthumous work by Hemingway, a writer with whom I have a love/hate relationship. Love his novels, but don't so much like the man, although I do have some sympathy toward him.
James Naughton did a fine job reading this book. I imagine another actor could have made Hemingway come across as more of a braggart. It was nice to hear the French pronunciation of place names, streets, etc.
I'm now reading the Restored Edition of A Moveable Feast (2009) that is closer to Hemingway's last work on the manuscript. His 4th wife made some editorial changes that altered the tone or intention of passages...or at least Hemingway's memory or feeling of how something happened.
James Naughton did a fine job reading this book. I imagine another actor could have made Hemingway come across as more of a braggart. It was nice to hear the French pronunciation of place names, streets, etc.
I'm now reading the Restored Edition of A Moveable Feast (2009) that is closer to Hemingway's last work on the manuscript. His 4th wife made some editorial changes that altered the tone or intention of passages...or at least Hemingway's memory or feeling of how something happened.
Great look at Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris in the 1920's. Inspired me to dig out some of those classic novels.
A crisp palette cleanser of a book, full of smart and interesting observations about writing (focus on what's true and cut everything else), Paris, and famous writers I wish I could have met. Makes me want to find a good cafe and people-watch and write. Also, like most Hemingway, makes me feel sad for his wife.