Review of Every Major Ernest Hemingway Novel

Reviews of every major Hemingway novel. My favorite is The Sun Also Rises. The best place to start is The Old Man and the Sea.

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[innatebubble]

This is such a well-informed, clear-cut video. I’m already hyped to get further into his work and this augmented my excitement.

[seancdf]

My prized possession is a beautiful edition of The Sun also Rises bought and stamped in Shakespeare and Co in Paris that whole experience was surreal. A Farewell to Arms probably steals the trophy for me his style got me so invested in the characters and oh boy … that ending !

[michealjames]

I’m about half way through For Whom The Bell tolls and it’s story just captures me. I love everything about it, and In my personal opinion it a definite step up from Old Man and the Sea, the only other hemming way novel I’ve read

[uncultured_swinegoofer]

think your channel is really underappreciated - you really hit the sweet spot between short- and long-form content and the discourse your videos facilitate is always interesting. keep up the good work!

[nicstar]

Keep at it William. You are my favorite BookTube channel. Thank you 👍🏼

[firecrusades]

this is was super helpful! i had started reading a farewell to arms and was finding it somewhat lackluster in ways, so watching this video really made me want to stick through, if not just to get to the others faster!

[ObscureBookAdventures]

I recently read (and reviewed) Hemingways Four Stories from the Spanish Civil War. I enjoyed it so much that I bought some more Hemingway books.

[tdd]

All Quiet on the Western Front is also a WWI novel and competes for my favorite novel of all time.

[MichelNJoia]

Been watching plenty of your "shorts" here on YouTube. Finally saw a full video. Keep up the good work!

[mohdsyafiqsivakumaran]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place from Hemingway’s The Short Stories are my personal favourites.

[andymrrogers]

To Have and Have Not and Across the River and into The Trees are skippable. The Sun Also Rises is also my favorite novel, but favorite book is Complete Stories, Finca Vigia Edition. There's a story that Somerset Maugham once made a negative comment about Hemingway, so he burst into an editor's office in a rage and demanded to know what Maugham said. The editor responded that Maugham said that you should stick to short stories. Hemingway grinned and said to tell Maugham that they should have lunch. Point being, Hemingway was a better short story writer than novelist and knew it.

[trickyj]

For whom the bell tolls is still sitting heavy on me a few days after I’ve finished. Excellent book. A few slow parts but wow I loved it

[MalasianMamothMassag]

Great channel! I love the short but informative format. I enjoy it more than reading blogs on what books to check out next.

[AdrianasWonderland]

such a great video. the sun also rises is one of my favorites novel, and ernset is one of my favorites writers, Moveable Feast was also amazing

[Tadicuslegion]

In 2020 I finally read Hemingway again, like most American High School Students, I was forced to read The Old Man and the Sea in about oh...2008, didn't care for it. Then I grew up, went to college, matured some more and wanted to try reading more classics in 2020, started with In Our Time, thought it was good. Then when the pandemic hit and we're all trapped at home, I binged a ton of Hemingway, both in book for and a couple of his short story collections as audiobooks while driving that were read by Stacy Keach (10/10 recommend).
So, being now 32 and binged a ton of Hemingway from 2020-2022, my verdict of the novels I've read

The Sun Also Rises: 10/10, this book just clicked after living through the trauma of 2020 like oh this all makes sense why all these people who lived a great trauma like WW1 are all the way they are.

A Farewell to Arms: 10/10, such a powerful book that really captures the soul of a man who lived through a war.

To Have and To Have Not: 5/10, you can skip this one

For Whom the Bell Tolls: 10/10, this was my number 2 book of 2020, Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell was number 1, This book is just so good

Across the River and into the Trees: 8/10, I know this one gets a bum rap as not being good but what made this one work in my eyes was reading Hemingway biographies before this one and his other work and you go, oh this is Hemingway coping with the fact he is now old and lived through 2 world wars and his love of Italy and yet the world has moved on and he hasn't

The Old Man and the Sea: 8/10, now that I was 30, the book was a lot better and made more sense

Islands in the Stream: 9/10, Very underrated book and really shows Hemingway's love of the Caribbean and yet the tragedy of war and how do you cope when the light goes out of your life.

I also read: In Our Time, Men without Women, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Nick Adams Stories. A Moveable Feast, Green Hills of Africa, True at First Light (this one stank), and The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway in 3 volumes by Simon and Schuster Audio

[shaunjones]

Love your videos mate, keep up the great work!

[nolank]

I got into Hemingway last year when I was studying in Prague, and before my first train trip to Hungary had decided to pick up "A farewell to arms". It instantly caught my attention and I was hooked and read it along with "The Old Man and the Sea" and "The Sun Also Rises" within weeks. Something about the stories really stuck with me and I took a lot out of them. I recently finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls", and I agree that there were sections that could get long and tedious (especially the cave conversation scene that you mentioned). However I thought it did a great job at developing the characters and even making you feel invested in the Republican cause. I'd say that it may be my favorite, but perhaps that is just recency bias.

[travelwithme]

Ernest Hemingway is my favorite writer🥰

[CookiedoughProductions]

I haven’t read any Hemingway before and I picked up my first book of his which was the sun also rises I’m currently on chapter 3 and I’m quite enjoying it currently. I really agree with it being funny so far.

[ReadingIDEAS.-uzxk]

For some reason I like to read books in the order that the writer wrote them, if they are independent novels. A moveable feast is fantastic, read it multiple times. In novels you missed; The torrents of spring, Green hills of Africa, True at first light, Islands in the stream, Across the river and into the trees and The Garden of Eden! Best wishes to you and your channel.