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Hemingway says that a good book makes you feel like the things in the story happened to you. I feel like I know Hem. I know Ezra Pound and I really know Hadley and Scott Fitgerald. The book is real, and funny, and written in true Hemingway style with the fewest adjectives you can use to describe the most incredible time. It's a gift not bestowed upon many others. Read it. You will want to drink wine and write in a cafe and it will make you want to surround yourself with interesting people so at the end you, too, will have a story to tell.
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How much of it is fabricated or exaggerated? Hard to say. I dont care - As Hemingway would probably say, the book is a true book in any case. Was a delight to devour.
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When I was a younger man, I had the privilege of living in Paris. It really does stay with you. Cities that stay with you are my favourite ones but you don’t know whether the feast is moveable until it’s over. I think that’s why this memoir is so good. It’s effectively a novelization of memories that are 40 years old. I didn’t write a book about my time in Paris because I have no talent and my friends who I lived in Paris with and spent time with while I was there were mostly law students and not artists who are to this day more interesting people to write about. We enjoyed the bars there. The ones on rue Moufftard were especially memorable and I agree with Hemingway that it’s a magical street. My best friends in Paris lived on rue Monge next to the Place du Contrescarpe near Hemingways first apartment so many of the place names were very familiar to me but also the overall vibe of the Quartier Latin was similar at least from our vantage point as 20-somethings. Paris sera toujours Paris. I also liked this book because of the way Hemingway writes which still reads as honest and also because it’s a great celebration of walking through Paris as an outsider and being especially attentive to the smells and the constant flicker of life all around. That’s one of my favourite things to do.
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