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Is Hemingway overrated?

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I've never been a fan of Hemingway. His books are a little simplistic and his style is choppy. About the best thing I can say about him is that of the overrated authors I've been forced to read in various classes he's the easiest to understand and plow through. Being forced to read Hemingway is MUCH better than being forced to read James Joyce.


Originally posted by: BillGates
Shakespeare is the most overrated ever.
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Spoken like a person who has never understood a word of it. If you really read Shakespeare it's impossible to dislike his stuff. His work was brilliant.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I've never been a fan of Hemingway. His books are a little simplistic and his style is choppy. About the best thing I can say about him is that of the overrated authors I've been forced to read in various classes he's the easiest to understand and plow through. Being forced to read Hemingway is MUCH better than being forced to read James Joyce.
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Or Faulkner!
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I've never been a fan of Hemingway. His books are a little simplistic and his style is choppy. About the best thing I can say about him is that of the overrated authors I've been forced to read in various classes he's the easiest to understand and plow through. Being forced to read Hemingway is MUCH better than being forced to read James Joyce.
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I'm very fortunate to have never been forced to read Hemingway. I thought "To Kill a Mockingbird" was an amazing book and a great film, but reading it in class ruined it for me. It is the only book from high school that I could remember that overcame the hatred of the worksheets and tests to be a novel I respected. Maybe throw Lord of the Flies in there too.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
I've never been a fan of Hemingway. His books are a little simplistic and his style is choppy. About the best thing I can say about him is that of the overrated authors I've been forced to read in various classes he's the easiest to understand and plow through. Being forced to read Hemingway is MUCH better than being forced to read James Joyce.


Originally posted by: BillGates
Shakespeare is the most overrated ever.
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Spoken like a person who has never understood a word of it. If you really read Shakespeare it's impossible to dislike his stuff. His work was brilliant.
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I don't like anything I was forced to read.
 
I think the problem with these 'classics' is that the english professors get all caught up in the techincal aspects of the writting and the 'message' put forth in the book. I read for entertainment plain and simple.

I disliked The Old Man and the Sea, but it was better than some of the garbage(My Antonia for example) the school system feeds kids(no wonder most kids hate reading).
 
Originally posted by: 40sTheme
You didn't like Lord of the Flies? I thoroughly enjoyed that one.
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No I meant the only books I was forced to read and like were To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies.
 
Well I'm going to read Heart of Darkness this evening. Hope it is more enjoyable 🙂

I'll definitely check out Hemingway's other works--but I figured if he won the pulitzer for The Old Man and the Sea AND it was the tipping point for his Nobel, then it must have been the top of his game.
 
Originally posted by: Flyback
Well I'm going to read Heart of Darkness this evening. Hope it is more enjoyable 🙂

I'll definitely check out Hemingway's other works--but I figured if he won the pulitzer for The Old Man and the Sea AND it was the tipping point for his Nobel, then it must have been the top of his game.
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Think Scent of a Woman and Al Pacino. Your logic should work but often doesn't in the real world of awards.

Conrad is equally amazing and so you won't be disappointed either way. A much harder read but in many ways more rewarding.
 
he is probably the single most over-rated author of modern times. he was also a flaming homosexual who never came out of the closet. i don't mind a guy being gay, but to be gay and too much of a wimp to admit it to yourself doesn't win my respect.

fitzgerald FTW.
 
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