Reading Hemingway, for me, feels like panning for gold. At the beginning I am really enthusiastic. People have told me about the gold, I believe in the gold, and I want to find it. After the first couple stony pages, my excitement starts to waver. Where is this aforesaid treasure? My attention wanders off. My interest is fading. I'm almost inclined to call it off. There's nothing there for me. But I keep panning, because of this disbelief that I may not be able to discover what so many have befo...

It was never what he had done, but always what he could do. (6)Air. Fresh air. Clarity for the mind. A pause. Another view. Many things. Many things can be found in a white landscape. The snow hides many secrets. The beginning and the end of everything, there, on the top of Kilimanjaro. Harry knows it now. A little too late. Wait, it is never too late, you say? Nonsense. Sometimes it is too damn late.A couple, Harry and Helen. They are in Africa. He is dying of gangrene; she is by his side, taki...

A short story about regret from a dying man set in Africa.

'Why, I loved you. That's not fair. I love you now. I'll always love you Don't you love me?""No," said the man. "I don't think so. I never have.""Harry, what are you saying? You're out of your head.""No. I haven't any head to go out of.""Don't drink that," she said. "Darling, please don't drink that. We have to doeverything we can.""You do it," he said. "I'm tired." WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE! This is one of those *i'm dying so i can be an ass, and people would just let me be, So i'm gonna shit on e...

I first read this when I was 16, and, of course, I was far too young to be able to properly appreciate this book; I loved it only moderately. Reread it when I was almost 50: clearly this is top class, especially by the very precise way of writing things down, more introspective and honest towards himself. Hemingway here clearly de-bunks the machismo for which he always is both praised ànd loathed. Apparantly, he managed to strike a more balanced tone in later life. Or is this just an illusion of...

This collection of ten stories by Ernest Hemingway is dripping with testosterone. The stories involve hunting, the horrors of war, the wounded, boxing, and fathers. The majority of the stories were quite good, but I'll only write about my two favorites.The title story is about a man laying in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro with a terrible infection in his leg. The vultures are flying, the hyena is crying, and the gangrene has an awful odor. The man is thinking back on his life, knowing that he

Perhaps this is heresy but... I just don't find Hemingway's work to be all that interesting. It just seems like macho tough guy bullshit and maybe-just-maybe there is something humanized and vulnerable deep down in there but I'm not so sure.Were we talking about mortality?------Alternatively:(source)------UPDATE (like… 9 years later): Then I actually read Old Man and the Sea , which was pretty good and has some great stuff in it. Anyway there's that.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories was a collection of ten short stories by Ernest Hemingway, many of them written in the 1920's and 1930's for Esquire Magazine, but published as an anthology shortly before his death in 1961. The Snows of Kilimanjaro has been purported by many to be one of Hemingway's greatest works. It was a powerful piece of fiction taking place at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro where Harry is on a safari in Africa. Dying from a gangrenous infection, he and his companio...

This is a spectacular collection of short stories by a brilliant author. Hemingway demonstrates here his versatility both in the content of these ten stories and in his use of the English language. He was a genius!

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1961. The title story is considered by some to be the best story Hemingway ever wrote. All the stories were earlier published.The collection includes the following stories: The Snows of Kilimanjaro,A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,A Day's Wait,The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio,Fathers and Sons,In Another Country,The Killers,A Way

I enjoy reading short stories, either in collections or as stand alones. When I look back at what I have read in the last two years, I notice many books under two hundred pages. Because I have a tendency to go into a proverbial reading slump in between quality novels, these short stories serve the purpose of preventing a slump and keeping my reading mind fresh. As in previous years, a square on classics bingo is to read a classic short story. Having read Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea last

I picked up this collection of ten Ernest Hemingway short stories when I was looking for Literature (with a capital L) to suggest to my real-life book club for its monthly read (whoever is hosting book club that month is responsible for nominating 5 or 6 books, and then everyone in attendance votes). Poor Hemingway was a no-vote-getter; North and South won in a landslide. But since (a) I'd already brought this book home from the library, (b) I like short stories, and (c) I felt like I needed to

I’d forgotten what a good short story writer Ernest Hemingway could be. This collection came out in 1961, the same year as the author’s death. But most of the stories were published in magazines in the 1920s and 30s, when he was at the height of his powers, and all were available in earlier volumes.There’s an impressive range of work here, from the ambitious title story about a man dying of gangrene while on safari and slipping into and out of consciousness, remembering scenes from his (wasted)

His latest novel.Despite its unfinished form, probably one of its best.The sensuality and languor that emerges as the ambiguity of the characters in this triangular relationship are remarkable.And as always, the dialogues and the silences of Hemingway.A masterpiece without question.

Judging a composite work, a short fiction anthology as an example, is a bit like isolating individual letters in an alphabet soup, a thankless task. I would assign Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories a score of 3.5 if it were possible but 2 (perhaps 3) of the stories are excellent, worthy of a 4+ rating! The collection covers a long period of time & some of the tales seem experimental, unfinished, considerably less than robust. It has been said that with Hemingway, one often get...

When I read Hemingway I try to focus on the writing and the story and forget that he was an a**. But that fact seeps into his writing, into his characters. His characters, at least for me, are not very likeable, and that's the case in this short story. Harry, in the wilds of Africa, is dying of gangrene from a leg injury, and he and his wife are waiting for a plane to arrive and get him to medical help. While he is laying, waiting, he muses about his life, mostly about his life's failings. It's

The title story, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, is one of Hemingway’s most famous and no doubt garners such appeal because it deals with the essence of every man’s life...what he has accomplished before he dies. Some see it as a treatise on procrastination, but I do not. I believe it is every man’s lot to die with things undone, hopes unrealized, opportunities missed, and I think Hemingway is making that point as well. We are busy living our lives and these things slip by us, sometimes without a thou...

This short story may seem like one of man versus nature, and it is, but it also turns into a story of man versus himself, a theme Hemingway repeatedly analyzed and returned to throughout his career. Harry, a writer, and his wife, Helen, are stranded while on safari in Africa. Harry, lies on his cot, and in a series of flashbacks recalls the mountains of Bulgaria and Constantinople, as well as the suddenly hollow, sick feeling of being alone in Paris among other things. He is fully aware vultures...

I really enjoyed the title story TSOK, but some other I didn't love as much! Hemingway if definitely hit or miss, usually a hit with me. This one if in between a hit and a miss! 4th book of the Rory Gilmore Readathon!!!

Published in the same year as Hemingway’s death, this collection of ten previously released short stories comprises some of his very best short work."The Snows of Kilimanjaro" first published in 1936 is a strange and thoughtful account at the end of a life with many regrets."A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" first published in 1933, this is one of my favorite of his short stories. Describing a time and place and mood of introspection, isolation and solitude."A Day's Wait" first published in 1933, thi...