Originally Posted by deflave
Originally Posted by jorgeI
Originally Posted by Sprint11
Jorge, you're not the lone dissenter, and I echo hatari's view of enjoying the character of Hemingway over his writing.

I've found that if a truck breaks down on the way to the hunting grounds, EH would spend 4 chapters describing the hardship, while to Ruark it would be a sidenote. Hemingway uses the situation to define the man, but Ruark uses the man to define the situation.

Excellent post, sir.

Yes, I also like Corbett. Anderson is another "Corbett-like" author that wrote about India.



Corbett's writing (which I enjoy) is almost comical in the sense that he's so dismissive of what would seem to be a major occurrence.

"So anyway, I killed that guy, and then finished the channel to our new harbor. But back to that Gemsbok...."


Corbett must not have had a nervous system. To stand out there next to a tethered goat or striking a stump with an axe to duplicate the natives work, in failing light, in thick jungle growth, to draw in an animal that covers the last twenty yards in under two seconds — I remember a case of the quivers just reading it..and remembering it again.