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Thank you Bukk. I no longer feel alone in not appreciating Hemingway. Steinbeck is splendid.
I didn't mind Steinbeck as a kid, but I hated Hemmingway. (Found him boring, with paragraph-style run-on sentences. Still do.) I had to read The Old Man and the Sea in 7th grade and it bored me to tears - and I was the "reader" of the school. Thank you for this post. It makes me feel not so alone in not appreciating him. I'll have to look up Hammett!
Philip, I couldn't agree more, and am relieved to hear someone say this. I only read one of his novels – The Sun Also Rises - and struggled to see his much-lauded 'genius' , wondering what I was missing. I thought the fault must be mine, that I lacked in understanding or appreciation of his writing. I thought it was colourless, drab, and flat, with boring characters who I didn’t care about, and pointless story. I love Steinbeck, such rich imagery, he really brings a story to life.
Glad i'm not the only one! I read "The old man and the sea" and i think it was the hardest book to finish until today, and it is a small book. I alwayas asked mysef why he is so famous, and ... I think Phillip foud the trick.
THANK YOU for putting my anger about Hemingway into words. He gets so much credit for doing so much nothing
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Mar 13, 2015 04:48PM
Thank you Bukk. I no longer feel alone in not appreciating Hemingway. Steinbeck is splendid.
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We as humans are storytellers by nature, and we expect a certain depth and amount of information. When Hemingway deprives us of anything useful or good, we are left filling in the gaps because we know in our gut that it can't really be that bad, that simple, that cut and dry and boring. But it is. We've encountered a bad storyteller.
I AGREE COMPLETELY!
I AGREE COMPLETELY!
I didn't mind Steinbeck as a kid, but I hated Hemmingway. (Found him boring, with paragraph-style run-on sentences. Still do.) I had to read The Old Man and the Sea in 7th grade and it bored me to tears - and I was the "reader" of the school. Thank you for this post. It makes me feel not so alone in not appreciating him. I'll have to look up Hammett!
Philip, I couldn't agree more, and am relieved to hear someone say this. I only read one of his novels – The Sun Also Rises - and struggled to see his much-lauded 'genius' , wondering what I was missing. I thought the fault must be mine, that I lacked in understanding or appreciation of his writing. I thought it was colourless, drab, and flat, with boring characters who I didn’t care about, and pointless story. I love Steinbeck, such rich imagery, he really brings a story to life.
Glad i'm not the only one! I read "The old man and the sea" and i think it was the hardest book to finish until today, and it is a small book. I alwayas asked mysef why he is so famous, and ... I think Phillip foud the trick.
THANK YOU for putting my anger about Hemingway into words. He gets so much credit for doing so much nothing
