Re: How to Detect Nuttiness
Emily Friedman (bananafish_9@yahoo.com)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
---Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Hmm, Late as usual, I am. But I cannot sit back as someone
insults "my"
> > Hemingway. I once heard that many women dislike him because of his
> > pseudo-macho exterior. Let a man be a man.
>
> O boy, sister ... watch your back, you're likely to get battered in a
> backstreet with myriad dog-eared copies of The Female Eunuch for
that one!
> (:
>
> The thing I don't like much about Hemingway is simply that to me
he's a
> man's writer. The subjects he talks about aren't of any real
interest to me
> as a woman. And I don't mean fashion or cooking or makeup or what
have you,
> because none of them interest me remotely. I far prefer authors who
can
> create a good balance between male and female readers and
characters. These
> to me are the books which approach that much discussed state,
> `universality'. I certainly don't dismiss his work - it's difficult to
> dismiss *anyone's* work I think - but simply assert that no matter the
> quality of the writing its content doesn't interest me.
>
> Camille
> verona_beach@geocities.com
> @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
> @ THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
> This summer I had a lot of time on my hands so I read a lot of
Hemmingway and I loved his work! I never really though that I would
like him because I thought that he got all the attention Fitzgerald
deserved. I did not see him as a man's writer because I am a woman and
I was very engrosed by his stories. My favorite story of his is "The
Snows of Kilimanjaro" and I like his Nick Adams stories. I found his
African Hunting stories to be very exciting. I feel that any woman can
enjoy a good Hemmingway story just as much as any man can.
-Liz
>
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