Strangely, islands in the Stream is the Hemingway I've reread
most often, that and Moveabl Feast. The Islands movie with
George Scott also gets my vote as best adaptation, narrowly
beating out The Killers. JAA
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no
more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier
than a sober one ." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Miller" <
phm@midsouth.rr.com> To: <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002
6:19 PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: To Have and Have Not
> For the record, my belief is that his best novel is
"A
> Farewell to Arms." The worst offender is "Islands in
the Stream," but
that
> may
> be unfair because Hemmingway didn't get a chance to
work with the editor
> before
> it was published. Hemmingway was a master of shorter
fiction--the Nick
> Adams
> stories and "Old Man and the Sea" being prime
examples.
>
>
Ray.........................................................................
> ..............
>
>
> Farewell to Arms has some tremendous writing. The
dialogue btween Henry
and
> Catherine is godawful however. One Nick Adams story
called Big two Hearted
> River is one of his best stories IMHO.
>
>
> Paul
>
>
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