Jaime's Reviews > The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

How the heck did Hemingway win both a Nobel Prize and a Pulitzer Prize? His stories read like a collaboration between a child first learning sentence structure and an old man with severe dementia trying to recollect his past. Being from Michigan, I was especially interested in reading "Up in Michigan" but 4 pages of an insipid woman and her eventual rape was pretty damn awful. Plus, what's with the dialogue? Did Hemingway never hear actual people speak? Seriously, nobody has ever, in history, spoken the way that his characters speak. And the female characters...dear lord. I'm sensing that Hemingway didn't care for women too much. Well, I tried. I'm really glad that I didn't have to read him in high school or college, though.

Anyways, rant complete. Thanks for reading!