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Evelyn Waugh - chicagoblackhawks77 - 07-15-2005
Anyone else a fan of his books? Have read a few: Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall, Handful of Dust, and just finished Brideshead. This dude can write. Seriously, he and MacClennan make Hemmingway and Fitzgerald look like pussies.
- skippy the wonder dog - 07-15-2005
Hugh Maclennan makes Hemingway look like a pussy?
Please.
The way The Sun Also Rises climaxes and then makes life into so much white noise: that's a stylistic tour de force, right there, a writer's lesson on how to write.
Where does MacLennan hit that level of mastery?
- lilbones - 07-15-2005
It's true. Hemmingway is a legend.
A more accomplished writer in terms of style and substance, I have not come across.
- chicagoblackhawks77 - 07-15-2005
Hemmingway is full of macho bullshit bravado.
- chicagoblackhawks77 - 07-15-2005
Fitzgerald was a drunk hack that wrote one good book.
- skippy the wonder dog - 07-15-2005
chicagoblackhawks77 Wrote:Hemmingway is full of macho bullshit bravado.
I'm sorry, were you talking about Hemingway's writing, or his image?
I thought we were talking about Hemingway the writer, not Hemingway the public figure.
- SoylentGreg - 07-16-2005
chicagoblackhawks77 Wrote:Fitzgerald was a drunk hack that wrote one good book.
Looks like somebody didn't enjoy high-school Literature. I kinda agree with you about Fitzgerald, but not about Hemingway. I'll never forget that my dumbass grade 11 teacher gave away the ending of The Great Gatsby before we even cracked open the book.
- The Horrible Esthete - 07-18-2005
SoylentGreg Wrote:chicagoblackhawks77 Wrote:Fitzgerald was a drunk hack that wrote one good book.
Looks like somebody didn't enjoy high-school Literature. I kinda agree with you about Fitzgerald, but not about Hemingway. I'll never forget that my dumbass grade 11 teacher gave away the ending of The Great Gatsby before we even cracked open the book.
Almost sounds funny - like two tough talkin' goalies really goin' at it upstairs......