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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
The perfect book to read when you're broke and feeling the need to pack your bags and run away to Paris.
This book allowed me to appreciate Hemingway.
The main thing that I took away from it was why he makes the choices he does in writing. I was very impressed by his efforts to write what is true, and his belief in mot juste. I loved that with so few words, and so little description, he made the story of a waiter and a friend gardening together an incredibly tender account.
I was also pleased by how current, how modern some of his stories are. The description of the goatherd guiding his goats through the streets of Paris, and the whole chapter elevating the urban fishermen - those speak to the modern foodie.
Now I feel ready to tackle some more of his works.
The main thing that I took away from it was why he makes the choices he does in writing. I was very impressed by his efforts to write what is true, and his belief in mot juste. I loved that with so few words, and so little description, he made the story of a waiter and a friend gardening together an incredibly tender account.
I was also pleased by how current, how modern some of his stories are. The description of the goatherd guiding his goats through the streets of Paris, and the whole chapter elevating the urban fishermen - those speak to the modern foodie.
Now I feel ready to tackle some more of his works.
Absolutely hilarious and a charming book. Memoirs of Scott Fitzgerald 5/5
This book made me hungry for travel, good food, and wine.
There are chapters of this book that sound like an older man who has perfectly captured his exciting times living in Paris as a young man.
And there are chapters in this book that sound like a young man who has perfectly captured the exciting times living in Paris as he is living them.
I'm not sure which is better. I read some Hemingway in high school. I can't say that he, or F. Scott Fitzgerald really took hold of me, certainly not as much as Kurt Vonnegut did at that time. I remember the act of reading A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby, but I don't really remember anything about them besides being a bit confused. This book has certainly left me excited and nervous to read The Sun Also Rises, which has been sitting next to my bed for the last week.
I can tell I love a book when it leaves me wanting to write a not so subtle longer version.
And there are chapters in this book that sound like a young man who has perfectly captured the exciting times living in Paris as he is living them.
I'm not sure which is better. I read some Hemingway in high school. I can't say that he, or F. Scott Fitzgerald really took hold of me, certainly not as much as Kurt Vonnegut did at that time. I remember the act of reading A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby, but I don't really remember anything about them besides being a bit confused. This book has certainly left me excited and nervous to read The Sun Also Rises, which has been sitting next to my bed for the last week.
I can tell I love a book when it leaves me wanting to write a not so subtle longer version.
convincing. moveably moving. amazing! but then again, I'm working on that very time period - others might not find it as captivating perhaps
Read it while I was in Paris and could not be more glad that I did. Not a huge fan of Hemingway's fiction but loved these essays/memoirs/whatever you want to call them. HBO's Bored to Death referenced one of the vignettes recently. A+
It's been years since I've acted Hemingway. Longer yet since I've read it. Maybe it was the time or maybe it was that this fictional-memoir is so unlike everything I associate with Hemingway that allowed it to catch me off guard. The prose is simple and direct, but not in the way that springs to mind when I think the word 'Hemingway'. There are twists and turns that make it verge on stream-of-consciousness at times, but gives you with a work that moves you without your permission, digging deep and leaving something that's more profound than the words that started out on the page.
I'm lucky that I got to experience this book in Paris. I got to see the city come to life as it had been almost 90 years ago; visualize the beauty that made Hemingway fall in love then and compare it to what's in front of my eyes today. I was able to read about Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and company, and compare his experience to the one I had this morning, when I went in to buy a souvenir copy of this book for myself. I have no problem admitting that I've always been thrilled by Hemingway and Fitzgerald's friendship, and a small part of me hopes that something similar exists for the authors who will someday be hailed as our generations best. Hemingway seems to have left me feeling both maudlin and nostalgic, yeesh.
But back to the book. The tone and style took me a bit to sink into (Paris doesn't lack in distractions), but I stuck with it, and I beg the rest of you to do the same. Take the time to experience Paris is all its 1920s glory. Hopefully it'll leave you as enamored as it did me.
PS - I have a lot of thoughts about Hemingway's thoughts on love and Hadley, but I'll save those for until I'm done with The Paris Wife.
I'm lucky that I got to experience this book in Paris. I got to see the city come to life as it had been almost 90 years ago; visualize the beauty that made Hemingway fall in love then and compare it to what's in front of my eyes today. I was able to read about Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and company, and compare his experience to the one I had this morning, when I went in to buy a souvenir copy of this book for myself. I have no problem admitting that I've always been thrilled by Hemingway and Fitzgerald's friendship, and a small part of me hopes that something similar exists for the authors who will someday be hailed as our generations best. Hemingway seems to have left me feeling both maudlin and nostalgic, yeesh.
But back to the book. The tone and style took me a bit to sink into (Paris doesn't lack in distractions), but I stuck with it, and I beg the rest of you to do the same. Take the time to experience Paris is all its 1920s glory. Hopefully it'll leave you as enamored as it did me.
PS - I have a lot of thoughts about Hemingway's thoughts on love and Hadley, but I'll save those for until I'm done with The Paris Wife.
I swear I rated this one back in 2012 but I can't find it.