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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jan 5, 2002
Pros: Interesting look into Hemingway's life in 1920s Paris
Cons: Mary Hemingway got her hands on it and edited it.
Summary: There's a bit of controversy over this book. Though in her introduction, Mary Hemingway states that "Ernest started writing this book in Cuba in the autumn of 1957, worked on it in Ketchum, Idaho, in the winter of 1958-59, etc." finally finishing it in ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 20, 2011
Pros: Pros: Hemingway's nearly flawless prose and a look into Paris in the 20's.
Cons: Cons: Hemingway skims over events- ie, his affair. Also his fourth wife edited the novel.
Summary: I heard of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast from a professor my freshmen year of college. I had just read Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and decided to make his autobiographical book about his time in Paris my next conquest. By the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 19, 2006
Pros: Crisp simple writing that tells of a magical creative time, 1920s Paris.
Cons: Not sure if this is the edition Hemingway would have wanted.
Summary: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of you life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” That is part of a letter Ernest Hemingway wrote to a friend in 1950. A Moveable ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 21, 2004
Pros: Now I know why Hemingway is considered a great writer.
Cons: Non-fiction.
Summary: I am primarily a Horror/Sci-fi/Fantasy reader, so it’s not often that I get around to reading the classics. My previous view on the whole thing was that the classics were for school and after I graduated, I would read whatever the heck I wanted to. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 23, 2000
Pros: Excellent and interesting chronicle
Cons: Not too exciting
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Name dropping galore: Joyce, Stein, Pound, Ford, Fitzgerald……..
Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast chronicles a veritable all-star team of literary figures. Instead of presenting the heralded group of ex-pats with the usual ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 24, 2000
Pros: Hemingway at his simplest Best (nothing else need be said)
Cons: You need to apprecite Hemingway to apprecite this novel
Summary: Whether you love or loathe Ernest Hemingway's work, (you're either one or the other) this is one piece of work that truly brings you the man who made less better. In A Movable Feast, postumously published after his suicide, Hemingway allows his reader to ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 21, 2000
Pros: emotionally charged, great descriptions of people
Cons: none really, but may seem to fragmented to some
Summary: A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway's memoirs of when he was a young novelist and reporter, just starting out in Paris, France and centers around him and his first wife. The descriptions of Paris, the characters, and the feeling that Hemingway gives to ... read more
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