Scribner Books discussion

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”—Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Traveling for spring break? We'll be diving into some classics ourselves, including Hemingway, and we're wondering:

• What’s your favorite book by Hemingway?

• What are your favorite Hemingway quotes?

• Who is your favorite Hemingway character?

• If you're taking a Hemingway book along on your travels, which one is it, and why?

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1) The Sun Also Rises or A Farewell to Arms
2) Too many to post
3) Robert Jordan
4) The Old Man and the Sea - there's so much that can be taken from the book, it never gets old.

Currently reading The Sun Also Rises. I love the simplicity of the prose, it's easy like taking a walk in the fall.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls. First Hemingway book I read, recommended by my ex (still a good friend), and first book I broke down and sobbed for a good long while.

2. Too many to quote.

3. Robert Jordan.

4. The Complete Short Stories.

What’s your favorite book by Hemingway? A Moveable Feast
What are your favorite Hemingway quotes? "I wished that I had died before loving anyone else (than Hadley)"
Who is your favorite Hemingway character? Lady Brett
If you're taking a Hemingway book along on your travels, which one is it, and why? A Moveable Feast because I would probably be in Paris and that's the best guide there is to that city.

I loved The Garden of Eden so much

1. Currently rereading A Farewell to Arms (the new edition with alternate endings). Also reading Greene's To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion. Not by EH, but a great read nonetheless!

2. "Courage is grace under pressure."

3. Nick Adams.

4. The Complete Short Stories--some I still haven't read, and many I love to read over and over again.

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
2. 'Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut.'
3. Jake Barnes
4. Just re-read A Moveable Feast, which I took with me to Paris two or three years ago. I plan on reading Across The River And Into The Trees next.

Hard to choose, but there's nothing like teaching a book you love. I just finished A Farewell to Arms with my AP class, and they loved it. For that reason, it might be my new favorite. I think Hemingway is ready for a resurgence in popularity. People are cynical these days. Papa lets you know you're not the only one trying to balance tragic cynicism and true love.

1. Farewell to Arms
2. The world is a fine place and it's worth fighting for.
3. My favorite character is either Henry Barkley or Santiago.
4. I don't know which book I'd take. Probably Old Man and the Sea because it's inspiring personally to fight for your goals and because how Hemingway wrote it makes you feel the isolation and the struggle between Santiago and the fish.

Re-reading A Moveable Feast in preparation for a discussion about Hadley and Hemingways relationship in our next book club meeting...also reading for the same meeting, The Paris Wife and Paris Without End..

Favorite: A Moveable Feast. For me, it feeds my writer side. The idea of short sentences and clear simple descriptions influenced my writing of "Smokestack".
Quote: I read and reread the "on writing" quotes over and over and really am unable to decide among the quotes.
Favorite Character: Gertrude Stein as described in AMF.
Vacation book: I think the Short Stories. I am currently finishing a novel based loosely on one of the lesser known ss.

1. the Sun Also Rises
2. Courage is grace under pressure- it has been on my classroom wall for years
3. Jake Barnes
4. I re-read The Sun Also Rises while on my annual backpacking vacation in the Sierras, we've tried fly fishing and always think of Harris and Jake

1. For Whom the Bell Tolls

2. "And if thy aunt had cojones she would be thy uncle."

3. Robert Jordan

4. Death in the Afternoon. The Spanish male rite of passage exemplified in the running of the bulls in Pamplona. Hot summer afternoons in bull-fighting rings, and the unearthly screaming from gored bullfighters as they recuperate or die slowly from their wounds in city hospitals. Every Spanish boy or matador wannabe has a Cape technique, and Hemingway describes his own technique so well.

For whom the bell Tolls, a selection of his short stories and just bought Across the River and in the Trees, and True at First light. From "A Natural History of the Dead" - "It has always seemed to me that the war has been omitted as a field for the observations of the naturalist." He talks of death in such a matter of fact way, and that first line draws you in.

Now I remember why I like "The Sun Also Rises" so much. It's because Paris in the 20's is way cooler than "Swamp People", "Duck Dynasty", & "Storage Wars" all put together.

1) Sun Also Rises
2) "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That'll teach you to keep your mouth shut."
3) Nick Adams
4) The Snows of Kilimanjaro