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Nov 28, 202210000mefest rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Hemingway's fictional account of a pivotal point in his life, published posthumously in 1964.
Jun 25, 2022maipenrai rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I liked this book more than any other work by Hemingway that I have read. I have never been a fan of the "macho" posturing of Hemingway's writing. Sadly shortly before he committed suicide the author was "treated" at the Mayo Clinic. I…
Jan 26, 2022raymarch rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
This was a disappointment. Disjointed difficult to follow. By the way, I've read most of Hemingway.
Oct 25, 2021kelsp rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Ah well I've only read The Sun also Rises by Hemingway. I picked this one at random. I found it kind of boring and was not motivated to continue. His style is very gruff with some little gems throughout. I will say that it really fleshed…
Apr 06, 2021ednabw rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Ernest Hemingway has always been one of my favorite authors after my ninth grade English teacher “made” the class read, The Old Man and The Sea. The book directed me to read his other novels that were readily sitting on my dad’s bookshelf…
Jan 30, 2021WC_Editrix rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
My first dip into Hemingway since "The Old Man and the Sea" in college. It was illuminating. I see why his style is praised, and he's a classic. Plus, I found out a bit about his early writing life, and personal style, and history of…
Jul 26, 2020LPL_SarahM rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The Paris setting; The window into some of America's most beloved authors' lives at a time when they were the most prolific; The shocking amount of wine being drunk; The... house cat as a babysitter? It was a wonderful read. One I'm sure…
Jan 11, 2019ArapahoeKati rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
After a decade of this sitting on my shelf, I finally read it (and listened to the audiobook because I wanted to hear some French). I enjoyed about half of the stories, especially the stories about F. Scott Fitzgerald, plus the lovely…
Nov 29, 2017dissymissylessy rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
i'm heartbroken every time i read of hadley losing all those stories, at the railway station. what was her unconscious resentment? was alice b. toklas a hypnotist? if so, how did she get her claws into hadley? was ernie so unwise as to…
Nov 14, 2017EvanSchoenfeld rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
The rewarding aspect was reading about the creative personalities, even though Hemingway’s intention was to show most of them in the worst possible light. His portrayal of Fitzgerald as a basket case is cruelly funny. There is…
Jul 29, 2016atfrancis rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A delicious book! If you have been to Paris you will yearn to return. If you haven't been, you will be booking a trip.
Nov 25, 2015msemos rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
a self absorbed young man always ready to talk about "friends". still the setting of paris after wwI was fascinating as were some of the less personal stories about the other inhabitants of the literary world in paris
Aug 27, 2014
This is an informative reading, and it comes best after reading "A Paris Wife" - so happy it just happened I've read that one first.
Jul 07, 2013nannyanne rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Read this book after The Paris Wife, more out of an interest in Hadley, Hemmingway's wife, than the author himself. I don't appreciate Hemmingway's fiction and short stories, but found this to be an interesting account of his time as a…
May 04, 2013sharon711 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Hemmingway came across as a naive man to me, focused mainly on himself. Some of the descriptions of Paris are evocative. But I found "A Paris Wife", in Hatley's voice, to be much more interesting.
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Aug 26, 2012mmorales1022 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I read this book after i read The Paris Wife. Both books are accounts for The Hemingway's years in Paris. I really enjoyed The Paris Wife which then encouraged me to read The Moveable Feast to compare and contrast. Love the…
Oct 16, 2011ser_library rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
a wonderful complement to the movie "Midnight in Paris" the picture of how Hem wrote is enlightening
superglu
Jul 22, 2011
You can get some further details under the "Review" tab. This version includes a bunch of sections that Hemingway decided to leave out of the original book as well as a number of alternative versions of sections that were included. …
Jul 20, 2011
Hem sharing the anecdote about Fitzgerald's private parts is just so over the top competitive, pathetic,infantile. The Great Gatsy is better than anything he ever wrote so I guess he had to get even. Tavernier-Courbin's book is a good…
Mar 21, 2011AJ_in_CoMo rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Enjoyed this book and the first-person accounts regarding other famous people of the time, such as Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. Favorite quote: "He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but…