|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 14,259 Likes: 2
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 14,259 Likes: 2 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls. A great novel.
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 9,611
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 9,611 |
Ya know, I think it's easy to plunder a man after he's gone. I would like to remember him as a great writer and a "man's man". He stated unequivocally that he could never be a Commie because he loves his liberty. powdr
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,396 Likes: 4
Campfire Outfitter
|
Campfire Outfitter
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 10,396 Likes: 4 |
Is that femmy Ken Burns gay?
Winning answer:
No skilled homo filmmaker would bother to put out the boring tripe which Burns does.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 4,829
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jun 2013
Posts: 4,829 |
Last episode tonight. I'll watch it again, but it's more or less ruining my appreciation of the man. As an English major in college, my profs adored him, which ought to come as no surprise, and he did indeed change the way novels are written forever. I see EH through his books, and what I see is a master of language. Let that be. Pretty much this. The WAY he writes is so simple. Very little use of any extraneous words - every word has meaning. Truly a Master of the written word. I don't really care about his 4 wives, his mental health issues, his son being a tranny or any of that other stuff. He lived, he died, and what remains are the words he left us. And I reiterate RR's observation above...let that be.
"A Republic, if you can keep it." ~ B. Franklin
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,579
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,579 |
I was surprised to hear Hem did not report things at the time and with held news because his career would be dead because of the libs in NY. He was always a liberal, commie. Hanging with Castro, etc.
Also that he lied so much to embellish his stories about himself.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2018
Posts: 17,077 Likes: 12
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2018
Posts: 17,077 Likes: 12 |
Last episode tonight. I'll watch it again, but it's more or less ruining my appreciation of the man. As an English major in college, my profs adored him, which ought to come as no surprise, and he did indeed change the way novels are written forever. I see EH through his books, and what I see is a master of language. Let that be. Pretty much this. The WAY he writes is so simple. Very little use of any extraneous words - every word has meaning. Truly a Master of the written word. I don't really care about his 4 wives, his mental health issues, his son being a tranny or any of that other stuff. He lived, he died, and what remains are the words he left us. And I reiterate RR's observation above...let that be. Well said. Agree 100%.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 15,568 Likes: 4
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 15,568 Likes: 4 |
Last episode tonight. I'll watch it again, but it's more or less ruining my appreciation of the man. As an English major in college, my profs adored him, which ought to come as no surprise, and he did indeed change the way novels are written forever. I see EH through his books, and what I see is a master of language. Let that be. Pretty much this. The WAY he writes is so simple. Very little use of any extraneous words - every word has meaning. Truly a Master of the written word. - - - - This observation reminds me of an excellent writer/teacher I new up in NM - one of his instructive pieces is named "Make Every Word Tell".
NRA Member - Life, Benefactor, Patron
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 67,762 Likes: 5
Campfire Kahuna
|
Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 67,762 Likes: 5 |
Burns is a commie prick, and distorts fact and history
Sam......
|
|
|
|
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 26,389 Likes: 6
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 26,389 Likes: 6 |
I watched the last one tonight. I thought it was good, the alcoholism really ravaged his brain.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 5,611
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 5,611 |
I watched one segment, and was slightly surprised to rediscover why I never cared for Hem nor for most of his writing. He was a self centered narcissist and he wrote about people in his circle. Too often he wrote it in a boring, predictable style. When I read his stuff I feel like he is trying so hard to write it his way that I become conscious of the writer, which gets in the way of the story. It ain’t my thang, but I can understand why many like it. I don’t care to slog through Tolstoy either, for kind of the opposite style reason.
Last edited by Okanagan; 04/07/21. Reason: Hemingized
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 31,621 Likes: 5
Campfire 'Bwana
|
OP
Campfire 'Bwana
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 31,621 Likes: 5 |
Enjoyed reading all these comments! Thanks!!
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
WS
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 19,819 Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 19,819 Likes: 1 |
Much ignorance displayed by the helpless and hopeless. (Is that direct and pithy enough?)
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead." Fess Parker as Davy Crockett
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 19,220
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Nov 2015
Posts: 19,220 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls. A great novel. Yes, not only one my favorite books, but one of my favorite movies as well.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,436
Campfire Regular
|
Campfire Regular
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 2,436 |
Hemingway is in his books, he's all over them. Burns does sleepy very well. The Civil War was many things to many people. Burns, apparently, found it quite boring so that's how he painted it.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 3,003
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 3,003 |
Burns is liberal trash. Worse than a waste of time.
Living in a world of G17s and 700s, wishing for P7s and 202s
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 6,263
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 6,263 |
Apparently he was more effective with a shotgun. For the win...
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 4,701 Likes: 6
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 4,701 Likes: 6 |
I have found it interesting and just began reading A Farewell To Arms.
The way life should be.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,575
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,575 |
I'm looking forward to the series! Have not seen yet.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,575
Campfire Tracker
|
Campfire Tracker
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,575 |
Last episode tonight. I'll watch it again, but it's more or less ruining my appreciation of the man. As an English major in college, my profs adored him, which ought to come as no surprise, and he did indeed change the way novels are written forever. I see EH through his books, and what I see is a master of language. Let that be. Pretty much this. The WAY he writes is so simple. Very little use of any extraneous words - every word has meaning. Truly a Master of the written word. - - - - This observation reminds me of an excellent writer/teacher I new up in NM - one of his instructive pieces is named "Make Every Word Tell". EH was more than a master of language, he was a master of effect. He chose each word with intent, and aimed each sentence with utter discipline. In any of his works, using less words or lesser words is impossible. I don't think The Old Man And The Sea will ever be equalled.
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world itself is vexing enough. -- Col. Stonehill
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 23,647 Likes: 1
Campfire Ranger
|
Campfire Ranger
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 23,647 Likes: 1 |
I watched the last one tonight. I thought it was good, the alcoholism really ravaged his brain. Along with all the head injuries; great egotistical, self-centered, selfish writer with a very sad & dark life with a terrible ending at age 61. From some of the film, you'd have thought he was 85 or so. Burns is a big time fake azzhole, IMO, who badly skews things to his own ends. MM
|
|
|
|
587 members (10gaugemag, 160user, 10gaugeman, 1936M71, 10ring1, 12344mag, 65 invisible),
2,409
guests, and
1,160
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
Forums81
Topics1,192,857
Posts18,497,077
Members73,979
|
Most Online11,491 Jul 7th, 2023
|
|
|
|