Ernest Hemingway

After having such a nice time reading John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, I decided to try Ernest Hemingway next - because he's inseparably linked in my mind with Steinbeck, even though he ought to be linked to Fitzgerald, and anyway I'd never read anything by him.

This was a mistake.

( There are totally going to be spoilers. I do it to save you the pain of reading Hemingway cold. )

I think Hemingway's goals as a writer and my goals as a reader simply aren't a good fit.