Garden of Eden – Ernest Hemingway

2 Responses to Garden of Eden – Ernest Hemingway

1. Mr Red says:

   March 14, 2020 at 12:18 pm

   Hemingway may be a great writer, but this isn’t a great book; much of it reads like the self-indulgent fantasy of a man who should have known better than to write a trivial story with little real narrative drive, packed with instances of sexual wish-fulfilment. The characters are unsympathetic and one doesn’t much care what happens to them. It seems this was carved by Hemingway’s publisher out of a much longer manuscript after the author’s death, and the publisher didn’t do a very good job with it. There were reasons why Hemingway didn’t finish it, and he was right not to try and publish it.

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2. Mr Black says:

   March 15, 2020 at 11:14 am

   Perhaps when it was published it was viewed as edgy, but there is little to recommend this book to the modern reader. My litmus test of a book is whether after a year I can remember much about it, and to be honest very little remains lodged in my grey cells apart from how irritating the main protagonists were.

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