I wanted a quick read this weekend so I went with "A Moveable Feast", my first real jump back into Hemingway after the terribly dull "The Sun Also Rises." I really liked his narrative style, feeling like I was right there with Hemingway as he took me around Paris. I'll admit watching the movie "Midnight In Paris" by Wood Allen, helped a great deal in visualizing the scenes and characters. Also, I felt really for F. Scott Fitzgerald. Damn that guy had some problems. It was odd to hear Heminway mention lightly, almost a non-issue, about having an affair with young woman in Paris, towards the end of the book. He seemed to have no problem detailing, and at times judging, others' problems but would sail right on past his own.
Now, I'm reading a few short stories by Chekhov from his collection "Forty Stories." I have never read him before but have heard a great deal about him being one of the best short story writers ever. The first one I read was "The Dead Body".... LOVED IT! The characters are minimal yet so deep. There are two guys, watching over a dead body, holding vigil in the cold wilderness as they share a fire. One is talkative, the other not so much. Then a man, dressed as priest but not a priest, shows up out of the cold, dark forest and then......you'll just have to read it. :) Great, sort of spooky ending
Now, I'm reading a few short stories by Chekhov from his collection "Forty Stories." I have never read him before but have heard a great deal about him being one of the best short story writers ever. The first one I read was "The Dead Body".... LOVED IT! The characters are minimal yet so deep. There are two guys, watching over a dead body, holding vigil in the cold wilderness as they share a fire. One is talkative, the other not so much. Then a man, dressed as priest but not a priest, shows up out of the cold, dark forest and then......you'll just have to read it. :) Great, sort of spooky ending
