I had writer's block for a couple of months. Narrator is just as great as the novel: it's like the author reads it himself.

I am so sorry for the people who can not see the great feelings and aroma of the real life behind his simple (not to be confused with primitive) straight-forward writing. He is a phenomena that had never happened in the US or world's literature before and that will probably never happen again.

He had an extraordinary talent to bring the artistic fragrance of Paris' of 20-th to everybody's life by few simple words that everyone could understand. In my view he's a teacher who helps us to appreciate life and be happy with its simple artifacts like eating, drinking and loving. I value Papa Hem for his enormous ability to enjoy and capture the life 'as is' without unnecessary exaggerations and extremes that some expect from literature (probably due their own boring life experience where nothing real happens). It looks like some readers were expecting detailed sex scenes while others were irritated by mentioning drinks often. I was surprised when read few negative comments here. And if you ever plan to go to Paris, you must hear this book! If you enjoy reading first hand accounts of important literary figures, you'll love this book. So if you've thought Hemingway was too heavy for your taste, you still may really enjoy this book. The frank and irreverant observations are even more fun considering our current celebrity obsessed culture. He's also not sure if having to rub shoulders with these other soon to be iconoclastic characters is worth his while either.

Hemingway's view of the world is still pretty macho - but he's also struggling with money and not sure if he'll ever be a success at this point. This collection of memoirs reads more like short stories, and the short stories are even more fascinating because they're based on real people and events. But this work is nothing like the gut wrenching drama in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' or 'The Son also Rises'. But after 'Farewell to Arms' I quickly realized how this man drop-kicked a whole new level of intensity into literature. I honestly didn't read any Hemingway until 20 year after I learned who he was (and that was mostly because of his super-model offspring).

A moveable feast to hemingway