Escaping Pleb tier and just finished reading Hemingway's "greatest" novel
What did you think?
I don't know what I think about it
It made me feel like i could be a writer because the prose is so fucking straight forward and dry.
>>7578929
It's bretty gud
>>7578929
reminds me of all the times i chased some harpy around like a pathetic puppy
i would have escorted them to their brown lovers
>"Escaping Pleb tier"
>reads Hemmingway
you're going about this all wrong
>>7578953
Depressing reality of the entire novel
I quit like 4/5 through, it was too fucking repetitive and boring. Fuck Hemingway.
>>7578972
the end is where some conflict happens. the thralls turn on eachother. i would suggest finishing it out dawg.
>>7578982
There's plenty of movies i could watch if i want to see conflict between bleak characters that i give zero fucks about.
>>7578972
He described getting his morning coffee about 17 times in the novel
>>7578929
For Whom the Bell Tolls might be just as good but i'm not sure about that. The Sun Also Rises is pretty good but if you miss the indirect reference that explains the protagonists' penis was rendered useless by a war-injury the book can be confusing.
>>7578987
but getting coffee in a cafe is so very european :)
did hemingway mention he lived in paris for a time? lovely city. very european. quite different from america.
>>7578992
You keep stating the most obvious things that just about anyone with 2 brain cells knows. Why are you doing this?
The book left little impact. Old man and the sea devastated me tho. Defined me pretty well at the time. The little moments in the book, the old man waking up in the afternoon, it's stuck with me.
>>7578929
Listen to what Steiner said about it. Very interesting and might show that you might not have understood everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPK3Mv6_Aps
It was meh. I don't drink or give a shit about bullfighting.
I did like the minimalist prose. Composition was good. Just the actual content lacked purpose.
I also just read this. I'm not the biggest fan of the style, but I did enjoy how most (or at least much) of what's really going on in The Sun Also Rises is merely implied and not stayed outright. I also think this is intersting when juxtaposed with the rather straightforward, cut and dry nature of the prose itself.
>>7579136
On my mobile and can't watch videos. Can you give a brief synopsis of what he says?
>>7579170
>you have to engage in the same activities as the characters to appreciate the conflicts that arise, the character development related to those activities and conflicts, the themes that are addresses in large part as an extension of those activities, etc.
>the bullfighting scenes were actually just about bullfights
>>7578929
>escaping pleb tier
>I don't know what I think about it
Please. What makes you a pleb isn't what book you read, it's what you get out of it. If you look at all of the words in Finnegans Wake, but get absolutely bugger-all out of it, that doesn't make a "patrician", it makes you a pleb who wasted a bunch of time. And if you've really just read a whole book of Hemingway's, and it left you so totally blank that you had to toddle off to /lit/ so they can tell you what opinions you should have, you're pleb forever. Come back when you have some opinions to share.
>>7579207
>On my mobile and can't watch videos. Can you give a brief synopsis of what he says?
Did you understand the Roncevaux allusion, when Jake and Bill were heading to Spain?
It's deeper than it appears at first.
>>7581383
Deeper than the Battle of Roncevaux Pass and the Song of Roland?
>>7582162
No, deeper than someone thinking he's just mentioning a random church.
>>7582162
It's cold out here. It's awful cold. The two friends are going to clash and betray each others friendship like Roland was betrayed by one of his own.
A Farewell to Arms is so much better
