Hemingway

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

Hemingway was always one of my idols since I was a teenager. Sucks that he took himself out the way he did.

Oh yeah. I think I knew that.

Wasn't 'Islands' published posthumously with someone else having filled in the blanks and adding an ending?

[Crowbob]

New PBS doc:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/03/30/hemingway-michigan-documentary-explores-writers-time-mitten/7016155002/

[LWJ]

He made several impressions on me.

Two of note: 1. Fly fishing in Spain. 2. The bottle of absinthe sitting unopened in my cabinet.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

The Old Man and the Sea. I've read it 20 times. My god, what a great book.

(Hemingway once entered a short story contest with:

Baby shoes for sale, never worn.)

That's also one of my favorite 2 or 3 books.