Monday, May 20, 2013

A Moveable Feast

I read a Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. It was unlike any book I had read before. For starters, it is the first book of a random collection of memoirs that I have read. Upon reading this book I realize a few things.   One thing that I noticed was that Hemingway uses a unique style of writing. He uses description in such a way that he is giving you no details and yet all of the details you need at the same time. He describes iParis in the 1920s. It is similar to Paris today, (ie bakeries, snobby frenchmen) but different in the respect that there was an art boom and artist everywhere filled the streets. There were more parks and less tall buildings. Another thing I noticed in the book is it seems that every novelist from the 1920s is somehow connected. I seriously think there was a secret writers society going on because they seem to have a tight interwoven click. I liked this book and would consider trying to write more like Hemingway. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes stories about a writer in paris during the 1920s. I did!.......

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