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

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

Love your videos mate, keep up the great work!

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

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

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!

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!

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

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 !

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Very cool! Thanks for that overview =)

Thanks dude! Will follow your advice

Just finished To Whom The Bell Tolls. Thanks for the recommendations.

Ernest Hemingway is my favorite writer🥰

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.

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.

You’ve motivated me to pick up a copy of the old Man and the Sea. For me, it’s hard to find time to read. You should do a video on the art of finding time to read. Thanks for everything you do.

I loved The Sun Also Rises. I don't know why it is so underrated

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.

Thanks, very interesting! 😊

Excellent video my friend. Have you read The Garden of Eden by Hemingway? It was published posthumously and has some fantastic scenes and commentary in it. Whilst it does suffer from pacing issues at times due to the editors doing it without Hemingway, he still manages to create a devastating love triangle and tackles themes that were way ahead of his time. One of the best authors to ever live - rest in peace.

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

I've read TSAR twice. Love it.

What would be your best advice to a new writer? What books do you recommend?

Garden of Eden was a surprisingly good imo. Probably tied for my favorite book of his. Farewell to arms was devastatingly good. For whom the bell tolls felt entirely too long and the characters not all the way realized

I started with the old man in the sea and i really his empathetic nature towards fish is something that intrigued me altogether and kept me hooked till end.

One of Americas best writers

I read the old man and the sea, a farewell to arms, to have and have not and winner take nothing ( short story collection ) and I have to say that i absolutely like hemingway as a writer

Islands in the Stream?

Thanks for the video. I recently reread The Sun Also Rises. It had been probably 30 years since I first read it, and I was curious to see what I would think about it after so many years. I recall enjoying it at the time, but not being overly ecstatic. Interestingly, I felt pretty much the same way on the reread. Yes, I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't put it on a list of my ten favorite novels; in fact, I wouldn't put it on a list of my twenty favorite novels. I think the bottom line for me is that, ultimately, I'm just not a huge fan of Hemingway's style of writing; his "Iceberg theory" of writing basically leaves me cold (pun intended). While I certainly don't discount his significant impact and influence on American literature, I'm ultimately not a major fan. Now, with that said, I plan to read For Whom the Bell Tolls in the coming weeks. I've never read that novel. Will it give me a different opinion on Hemingway? We'll see...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a great Hemmingway short story that's worth a read.

The Sun Also Rises is one of the best books of all time!

I cannot get into Hemingway novels. The only book I like is A Movable Feast which of course isn't a novel. His writing style is not only simplistic but it reads like a diary or journal. No excitment or tension. Just facts and observations. I have The Sun Also Rises but can't get past Chapter 5. I know he is a great author but I just don't see it.

Hemingway is my favorite author but no competition for a ww1 novel? All quiet on the western front was amazing

I just abandoned A Farewell to Arms after 44ps, the writing wasn't too good, both Jünger - Storms of Steel and esp.Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front were much better. (I did enjoy The Old Man and the Sea, though).

I am sorry. I am so amazed that people really like For Whom The Bell tolls or , actually , anything by Hemingway. Please explain to me why you enjoy reading this book--the literary style is so ridiculous, I can't imagine any publisher going near it. I am just finishing it now for the second time, trying desperately to give him a second chance--but ... man what is he doing? Please explain that thee and thou and repetition and skipping to 2nd person? what? if you truly love it , explain it. thanks.

favorite hemingway: the prisoner of Azkaban least favorite Hemingway: New Moon

Just finished for whom the bell tolls🫤 Quite possibly the worst book I’ve read all year