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A review by fbarros
As Neves do Kilimanjaro e Outros Contos by Ernest Hemingway
2.75
I'm giving this one an average rating. Like any collection of short stories, it's hard to like them all, but honestly, most of them were just ok experiences for me.
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" stand out among the others as my favorites, but having two bullfighter stories just wasn't for me. Most of the stories were also very similar and didn't resonate at all.
--- Kilimanjaro:
"For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well"
The reflections and flashbacks to the First World War of a dying man make the story captivating but the way he treats his wife made me shiver with disconfort.
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" stand out among the others as my favorites, but having two bullfighter stories just wasn't for me. Most of the stories were also very similar and didn't resonate at all.
--- Kilimanjaro:
"For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obseessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself. It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.
Now he would never write the things he had saved to write, until he knew enough to write them well"
The reflections and flashbacks to the First World War of a dying man make the story captivating but the way he treats his wife made me shiver with disconfort.