tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1731027273906838992.post5801276008871770166..comments2024-03-07T05:11:03.645-05:00Comments on Paul Davis On Crime: Ernest Hemingway, Kansas City Star Reporter: 'The Best Rules I Ever Learned For The Business Of Writing'Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1731027273906838992.post-80232706423980307942015-02-20T15:20:16.048-05:002015-02-20T15:20:16.048-05:00"The Sun Also Rises" was my introduction..."The Sun Also Rises" was my introduction to Hemingway when I was a teenager. I was hooked. I've been a Hemingway aficionado since then. <br /><br />I was thankful that I was able to travel through "Hemingway Country" in Europe - Italy, Spain and France - while I was stationed at the Holy Loch, Scotland submarine base when I was in the Navy in the mid-1970s.<br /><br />Paul<br /> Paul Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593938088512203541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1731027273906838992.post-54398200021939998962015-02-20T10:21:13.801-05:002015-02-20T10:21:13.801-05:00I am especially fond of _The Sun Also Rises_, &quo...I am especially fond of _The Sun Also Rises_, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," and "Hills Like White Elephants." I could name a few dozen other short stories as "favorites," but you get the idea: I very much like Hemingway's writing.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1731027273906838992.post-3509481813446085462015-02-19T17:32:56.822-05:002015-02-19T17:32:56.822-05:00R.T.,
I read your fine review of "The Breaki...R.T.,<br /><br />I read your fine review of "The Breaking Point." <br /><br />I've not read the book, but I've read nearly everything Hemingway has written, and a good bit of everything written about him. Hemingway is one of my favorite writers. <br /><br />I've read several biographies of Hemingway and they all cover the John Dos Passos /Hemingway friendship and their later feud. <br /><br />Hemingway was very competitive with other writers and Dos Passos had some success (although he is not as well known today as he ought to be). He also turned conservative after the Spanish Civil War and was critical of the Communists and leftists.<br /><br />Hemingway did not like this, although he too showed the horror of the Spanish Civil War and the atrocities of both sides in his great novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls." <br /><br />Hemingway, in my view, is one of our greatest writers and he is perhaps the most influential author of our age. <br /><br />A good number of today's writers claim him as a major influence (as do I). <br /><br />I can't defend his excessive behavior, but he drank a bit, and I believe he suffered from mental illness, like past and present members of the Hemingway "tribe."<br /><br />This illness led to his suicide. His father also committed suicide, as did he grandaughter.<br /><br />But despite his mental illness and the severe beating his body took from war injuries and two plane crashes, he was able to write great novels and even greater short stories (I love "The Killers" and "The Battler," just to name two).<br /><br />You can read my Crime Beat column, "Hemingway on Crime" via the link http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2009/08/on-crime-thrillers-hemingway-on-crime.html.<br /><br />Paul Paul Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07593938088512203541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1731027273906838992.post-6849178775861341632015-02-18T22:11:34.687-05:002015-02-18T22:11:34.687-05:00Paul, here is a link to the review:
http://america...Paul, here is a link to the review:<br />http://americamagazine.org/issue/culture/bitter-endR.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1731027273906838992.post-46720469005473331742015-02-18T22:07:08.295-05:002015-02-18T22:07:08.295-05:00Thanks for highlighting the book. I will be diggin...Thanks for highlighting the book. I will be digging into this one quite a bit more. There is no other author with whom I have a more pronounced love-hate relationship: I love most of his writing, but I rather hate most of the man's lifestyle and his behaviors. <br /><br />I reviewed a book for America magazine: The Breaking Point by Stephen Koch. If you want to read an eye-opener about his betrayal of friends when he suited his selfish purposes, that is the book you should read. I came away from the book loathing Hemingway the man but still admiring his writing. If you are interested in Hemingway, check out my review (retrievable through America magazine online) and then check out Koch's book. R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.com