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I'd like to tap into the vast Campfire knowledge base with a question about Hemingway's book "Green Hills of Africa".
I've read a couple of his books when I was underway,during my enlistment in the Navy. I think that I read every book that was in the small library,when I was assigned to my first ship (I couldn't finish War and Peace though).
I don't particularly like the American Classics and really don't recall much about Hemingway's style of writing.
This book isn't fiction so I wonder if it's worth my time.
Thanks Gang...

I've read it and consider it one of his lesser ones.

I like it.




Travis

I've enjoyed the book

I believe if Poppa was alive today he would look up to flave

Then be sure to avoid it Bart.
Anytime Clark endorses anything, bang, zoom, fail.

If you hav to ask if Hemingway is worth reading, I'm sure it's not.
Hems depiction of his surroundings in GHoA set the course for an entire genre of writing.

Green Hills of Africa is a great book well worth reading.

If you like Hemingway's writing style (and I do), then you'll like it. There are better hunting books, but it's a fun read and you'll enjoy it if you enjoy hunting.

Hemmingway's Green Hills of Africa is far easier for me to read than Teddy Roosevelt's African Game Trails.

I was impressed with their writing, not so much with their hunting prowess.

I don't think that Mr. Hemingway ever approached his writing in a flippant manner.

As to his style, I really liked the answer to "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road" that was attributed to him: "To die in the rain. Alone."

Let me put it another way; Hems short, clipped depiction in GHoA created the writing style the next 100 years of Authors would emulate. JFC its the blueprint for all that came after. Is it worth reading. There's only a handful of people that could ask that with a straight face.

Hopefully Hatari will chime in. He is well-read on Hemingway.

... if he fell off his barstool first.

I'm curious about this comment.
Are you being glib or are you a prick?

I have read all of Hemingway's fiction that has been published in book form. He is not my favorite author, but he is in the top ten percent. Many people pick up one or another of his books to read about hunting, but none of his books that I can remember are really about hunting. The hunts are just the fabric on which his tales are embroidered, so to speak.

He's a Dick.




Travis

I hate being pidgin holed, but I'd say in this case a bit of a glib prick.
Do you consider yourself more of a dumbass or stupidass?

I tried to read it in the 5th grade and even though it was a hunting book and I was nuts for hunting, I couldn't get into it. I tried it again a few years later and couldn't believe how much better the book had gotten.

It's not a "how to do it" and he's no Pondoro Taylor on African rifles and hunting, but keep in mind, he was hunting with the dean of the East African professional hunters and that's the way it went.

I didn't finish it, I found it boring.

Well, at least you gave it a second chance.