tredwards24 's review for:

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

3.0

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Here is a memoir where the more interesting insights are not from the author's life but from the voyeuristic insight of the génération perdue. The book itself is indicative of Hemingway's terse yet unpretentious prose - i.e. commas substituted with the word 'and' and an aversion to adjectives. Similarly, I do find it refreshing to see titan's of 20th century reduced to actual people (on talking with Gertrude Stein, "If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back") despite admitting that this is a discretionary novel for those who would like to know more of the Modernist-Occupation of Paris where "nothing was simple".