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Bezig met laden... Islands in the Stream: A Novel (Scribner Classics) (origineel 1970; editie 2003)door Ernest Hemingway
Informatie over het werkEilanden in de golfstroom door Ernest Hemingway (1970)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I’ve long been a fan of Hemingway. I even got to visit the house on Key West last summer. Yet I found this to be a meandering mess. True enough, this was posthumously published, but I suspect there was a reason why Papa never got around to finishing this before he died. It reminded me of Harper Lee, and the relationship of Go Set a Watchman to To Kill a Mockingbird. Disappointing. As a woman, to read Islands in the Stream, is to enter a "man's world" as conceived by Hemingway. Tom Hudson,an American ex-pat who lived Paris and Italy during the jazz age period, has settled down, more or less, on the island of Bimini. At the outset of the book, Hudson combines a workman-like painting schedule at a studio in his home, with the social life in the bar of a nearby fishing village. In this "manly" world, Hudson, another ex-pat friend, and local men engage in a kind of society that involves trading insults, drinking and fighting, and various forms of danger at sea. Islands in the Stream contains three distinct sections, setting out three periods in Tom Hudson's life. Read it to experience Hemingway's fine descriptive writing, and his skills in sharing both Hudson's contemporaneous thoughts as well as his personal reflections on the various chapters of his life, V prvej časti autor opisuje život maliara Thomasa Hudsona na ostrove Bimini ležiacom v Golfskom prúde, kde jeho osamelosť naruší návšteva synov. Druhá časť sa odohráva o niekoľko rokov neskôr na Kube počas vojny, kde sa Hudson zúčastňuje na tajných akciách v boji proti nemeckým ponorkám. Záverečná časť je situovaná na palubu prieskumného člna pátrajúceho po stroskotancoch potopenej nemeckej ponorky.
". . . a complete, well-rounded novel, a contender with his very best. It has his characteristic blend of strong-running narrative and reflective mememto mori and it is 100-proof Old Ernest, most of it." This book does not make it. I wanted this book to make it. I have been pulling for Hemingway to hit one out of the lot for a long time now. I wanted another novel like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, or To Have and Have Not... So here, in Islands in the Stream, is his last at bat. From beyond the grave. What a chance for drama! But Mr. Hemingway took a called third strike, lying down... All in all, Hemingway knows his men and his war and his food and his drinks and the wind and the sea and the birds, and how to boat, and he knows his crabs and his wild boars and his dogs and his insects, and he knows his death is coming. He’s weak on his women but most of us are, and his conversations aren’t quite real; they are Hemingway conversations, but once you realize this you can accept them. And there’s free knowledge in the book on all sorts of little things besides making good drinks. Although I don’t care too much for his peanut butter with raw onion sandwiches... No, the book doesn’t make it. Few do. I’d say buy it just to know which way things went. They went that way. And he’s gone now. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Heeft de bewerkingOnderscheidingen
First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters -- including an aging prostitute who stands out as one of Hemingway's most vivid creations -- engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway at his mature best. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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These books are for the most part are not something kids can relate to in the 21st century.
If you really want to discourage reading give them a book by Ernest Hemingway.
I hated his writing, in high school, college, and now in my 50’s.
Yes I know this book was released after he killed himself. It doesn’t matter. It has all of the pain of any Hemingway book.
Hemingway’s writing is great when it is describing scenery or situations. Where it is painfully awful is dialogue between characters.
Conversation usually involves one or more characters well on their way to being drunk. And like a drunk in a bar nothing they have to say is worth listening to.
In this book most of the section labeled Cuba is nearly unreadable.
Also women are always portrayed as emotional train wrecks. That is the case in this book as well.
In the section called Bimini the dialogue involving the main character Thomas Hudson and his children is so awful, no children speak like this.
The ultimate problem with Hemingway books is that the main character in every one of them is actually Ernest Hemingway himself. Then Hemingway writes the character as a combination of how Hemingway wants to believe he would speak, act,and behave, and the way he actually does.
No more Hemingway for me. ( )