Finished another Hemingway and I gotta say that I’m hooked. I really never understood why his books were so important but I have found something in them recently that I love.
With this book in particular I made several parallels with the main character Thomas and where my life is at right now. While I was reading this book I kept picking out bits and pieces that would completely define some feeling I have had that could never really pinpoint but now here it was right in front of me and someone had written it down years before. It’s hard for me to explain it exactly but I really identify with many things in this book for some reason.
Hemingway describes everything in such a simple way it can only remind me of my past lives and the adventure buried within.
I tried to make it through Green Hills of Africa but just couldn’t get interested so this book was suggested to me by a good friend and so I gave Hemingway another shot. I was glad I did and ended up loving this book. It was slow for me at first but I don’t think I understood how he writes until much later into the book and now I really like his style.
While I read I envisioned a world in the past that can never be again. Such elegant destinations that I can only assume have long been overrun by the hordes of travelers since. It only makes sense that with so many tourists in every nook and cranny many or all of the places mentioned in the book are now spoiled. But maybe this is a pessimistic view and I should actually visit Paris or Pamplona.
I do have a relative that is from Madrid, who has told me many things about her home but I don’t think I ever understood the romantic view of the country until reading this book. I may even try reading another Hemingway.
I just finished reading this book last weekend and was really impressed. I actually bought this book over a year ago but it has just been sitting there. So I dusted it off and gave it a read. I think when I tried to read it the first time I just didn’t know enough to get through it but this time it made more sense. Although, it really makes me realize how much I don’t know, the photos in this book are really amazing.
In general I thought the book was excellent and the author Tim Fitzharris obviously knows what he is doing. The book had several sections with a great tips you would only know from doing it professionally for many years and the photos had details about how and what they where shot. One negative was the equipment he uses is way out of my league, which makes me wonder if a person can create images on that level or even close with lesser gear. We’ll see.
Another thing that was really cool about this book is the locations of many of the photos are really close to where I live so going out and trying to replicate some of these scenes will be really cool. Just for fun I marked the locations of the photos in the book using Google maps. You can check it out here.
This was January’s book and I thought it was fantastic. Again a complete contrast from the last book I read, The Great Gatsby, so it was a little hard to get started. Once I made it through the first fifty or sixty pages the book really took off for me.
The situations created through-out are incredibly complex and impossibly funny. This book had me laughing out loud several times. I think this book has definitely affected me in some way. Working for a large company as I do, I see some parallels between work and the book for sure, and if anything made some of these things a little less serious and a little more humorous.
I would recommend this book to most anyone and think it is more or less a must read.
I finished this book just as the year ended. Pretty drastic change in style from the last book I read, which was The Dharma Bums. I really don’t know that much about the 1920′s in America and so this was pretty cool to get a glimpse of what people were doing then. I think this is another one most everyone has read already at some point, probably out of necessity for some class in school, but I hadn’t and it shows up on just about everyone’s must read list.
by admin on September 13th, 2009 /
Category: books
I recently finished this book and was very impressed. At first it was very difficult to read through but eventually it caught on and I couldn’t put it down. I love the way the author just rolls everything together and sometimes a sentence is nonsense but somehow it works.
This book really did make me want to dust of the backpack and head out for some adventure. I think for my sons generation this is a must read simply because of the way it makes the reader devalue all the material shit we all stockpile in our lives and really spend some time thinking about what we all are born with, ourselves. I’m pretty sure I will be coming back around to Kerouac again.
