meegannie
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I know very little about Hawaiian history and had no idea there was a leper colony* on one of the islands.
I only know details about it because of this guy:
I know very little about Hawaiian history and had no idea there was a leper colony* on one of the islands.
Have any of you read Chabon's The Pittsburgh Mysteries? I'm curious to know if anyone has thoughts/knowledge of its link to Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises.
Have any of you read Chabon's The Pittsburgh Mysteries? I'm curious to know if anyone has thoughts/knowledge of its link to Hemingway's the Sun Also Rises.
Funny, I was more reminded of Catcher in the Rye than anything else when reading it. I read books very quickly, so it would not surprised me if I missed some sort of like to the Sun Also Rises.
You may have missed a link as well. Dick.
Ouche.
I enjoyed Chabon's book a lot, but I'm embarrassed to say I haven't read the Hemingway. A friend told me The Sun Also Rises was The Great American Novel, but as I'm a staunch Fitzgerald supporter I scoffed at him and never got around to reading it. I enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea and a good amount of Hemingway's short stories, but I'm just not a big fan of his style, as well as all the macho bullshit. Besides, how can the GAN take place in Europe? Whatever. It's Gatsby or Moby Dick. Deal with it.
And you're a Dickens fan? There are definitely some questionable portraits of Jews in more than one of his novels.
Ouche.
I enjoyed Chabon's book a lot, but I'm embarrassed to say I haven't read the Hemingway. A friend told me The Sun Also Rises was The Great American Novel, but as I'm a staunch Fitzgerald supporter I scoffed at him and never got around to reading it. I enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea and a good amount of Hemingway's short stories, but I'm just not a big fan of his style, as well as all the macho bullshit. Besides, how can the GAN take place in Europe? Whatever. It's Gatsby or Moby Dick. Deal with it.
Also found Hemingway to be a bit anti-semitic, which did not exactly endear him to me.
I can tell you what it WASN'T called: Ignoreland.
I will argue to the death that Duncan's "The Brothers K" is the greatest American novel.
I would also argue that Twain is the father of modern American literature.
Oh, I love that book.
I read Mysteries of Pittsburgh but didn't like it nearly as much as Wonder Boys and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. I haven't read The Yiddish Policeman's Union yet, but I have it on my shelf.
I'd have to go with Washington Irving for that one, Dalton.
I'd have to go with Washington Irving for that one, Dalton.
I actually agree with this entire post.
Incorrect, Tom Clancy is the father of American Literature. Twain was just a witty elitist prick.
I actually don't have a lot of love for Hemingway the novelist. I love his short stories, but I don't feel that his style translates well to the longer narrative.
Does this mean a reconciliation is in our future? Or just that we're on speaking terms again?
Either way, this is wonderful.
Clancy writes hardcore shit. Shit blows up, people die, then are reborn, then they die again, by their own hand sometimes.
Clancy writes hardcore shit. Shit blows up, people die, then are reborn, then they die again, by their own hand sometimes.