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Virginie wrote this review Monday, September 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Brilliant short stories. Mr. Hemingway is an expert on many things and again he shares his expertise with the reader. Big game hunting, bull fighting, trout fishing, horseraces, as soon as one turns the page one is drawn into it, brutal, real and everything but boring. His descriptions are detailed, never fanciful and always first hand information. Since Hemingway travelled a lot one always finds oneself in such familiar places like Padua or Milan alongside the descriptions of his native country.”
Norbert P wrote this review Friday, October 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Borrowed CD version from Dunlap Library
Catherine E wrote this review Wednesday, July 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Hemmingway comes off as a mean and bitter man in this sorry story. Perhaps that was his intent. If so, he succeeded.
The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of Hemingway's mature stories to be accepted by an ”
“I've tried to get into Hemingway many, many times. He just doesn't do it for me. It's always the same angry, wounded war veteran who treats others (esp. women) cruelly. I have to confess that I didn't even finish. I may try to plow through a few more, I don't know. ”
katrina b wrote this review Sunday, November 2 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“serenity said: This is the first I've read of Hemingway and it will not be the last. He is a marvelous writer. His point of view is a little fatalist and bleak at times, but it states it so very eloquently.”
Play Book Tag Shelf wrote this review Saturday, November 8 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No2 of 2 members found this review helpful“Hemingway was at his best in the short story form, and here are some of his greats. ”
Lord Manleigh wrote this review Wednesday, April 23 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I believe the Snows of Kilimanjaro is Hemingway's best short story, and it's one of the best short stories I've ever read. I've also listened to it on tape. My favorite version, which I cannot locate on Amazon, is the "book on cassette" published by Caedmon in 1989. I don't recall the name of the reader, but he really makes this story come alive in a way that merely reading it doesn't quite capture.”
Jim H wrote this review Friday, March 7 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Hemingway's best work. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber should be required reading for anyone before they are allowed an eighteenth birthday.”
Joshua M wrote this review Saturday, February 9 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“The titular short, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" is sick (no pun intended). I'm paraphrasing, but Hemingway said something like, "I put everything true in that one." I loved it and regard it among my favorites from In Our Time and Men Without Women. I've forgotten the Other Stories, but it's been a while. Read "Kilimanjaro" at least.”
Daniel F wrote this review Tuesday, February 5 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
