Reviews - A Moveable Feast

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A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway

3.93 AVERAGE

daviddiruzza's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

ltaranto's review against another edition

3.0

3.5

pk1's review against another edition

3.0

I was a little apprehensive to pick up anything by Hemmingway because of what I'd heard. That in his novels, or at least some of them, he doesn't give enough description, so it's hard to follow and understand what is happening. Well I was pleasantly surprised while reading A Moveable Feast. His descriptions were great. My favorite parts were when he was talking about other writers, my favorite section being about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Now, in the preface, Hemmingway states that not everything is truthful, that you can even consider it a work of fiction. But it seemed so real and honest I never really thought if what he was saying was true or not. The chapters are short, so it's easy to get through. This was also my first memoir, and I think I will look into some others. I think this is a good place to start if you want to try to get into memoir or just love the 1920s, or want to know what other writers were doing at this time, being part of the "Lost Generation", a description coined by Gertrude Stein.
A Moveable Feast follows Hemmingway's time in Paris during the '20s and ends with him and his family in Austria and German. But the majority is written about living in France. This book will make you want to drop everything and move to Paris. I wish I was in Paris in the '20s right now, being a striving artist, because Hemmingway makes so many friends with other writers. I think that if you have not read anything by Hemmingway before and want to try to get into his work, this is a good place to start. He talks about his writing process and the stories he has written or is writing, as well as other people's work. He discusses his opinion on Fitzgerald as a person and a writer, even devoting a whole chapter just to him. This book is light-hearted and simply a good read. I recommend this to anyone, as it is easy, and not "heavy".