"come prepared"

damn, i was just going to say that i always like that old man and the sea was the shortest novel i read in high school but also the most dense, imagery-wise. also 'hills like white elephants' actually suffers from the usual complaint that is lobbied at him, that 'nothing happens.' still a great writer in my estimation, if just for being friends with fitzgerald and then getting pissed at him after some charity boxing match debacle.

I don't think he was the greatest but actively disliking him I think is glaringly pretentious since his writing is so quickly recognizable as at least very good solid reading. As opposed to say like Faulkner where your'e always like wait a second is this shit anygood ,uh... YES! err. wha? But yeah, a solid consistent NOT CRAP.

Oh Yeah, and makes Bukowski look like Bukowski.

brad

i think he's overrated, but he is not the crap, is he??????

The Old Man and the Sea, in my opinion is one of the finest concise works of modern literature. It ranks right up there with Kafka's Metamorphasis. Hemmingway's style in this one is much more allegoric than A Farewell to Arms (which is the only other novel of his that I've read). I wrote a paper in modern-lit shortly before I left college comparing these two short novels.

Inanutshell: Acheivement is meaningless in the face of nature.

Brad, I'm prepared to elaborate, should you choose a contrary opinion about this work/author; I am curious as to what you think of Hemmingway anyway.



Hemmingwayanyway, Hemmingwayanyway, Hemmingwayanyway.
Read that aloud quickly, if you dare.....