In Our Time

This is just excerpts of the book, about 20 pages long. Even at 99 cent, Do not buy! Not sure why Amazon allows this!

This is a total scam. This is not a book but a twenty three page pamphlet. Most pages have one short paragraph. The entire thing could be read in ten minutes max. This is a absolute rip off that no one could enjoy.

This is my third time reading In Our Time. As per usual, it did not disappoint. Hemingway weaves together brief glimpses into the life of Nick, making a larger image of Nick’s existence in the context of WW1. I will say, I struggle with the way women are portrayed in the book, but I believe that’s the POINT.

These short stories felt very personal to me. Reading them was like peering into the mind of the author and spying the mechanics of his subconscious and conscious at work. His experience and his imagination clashing time and time again, proving to us readers indeed that in Our Time there’s nothing new under the sun.

It's been many years since reading Hemingway. I had forgotten how it felt to read him. I like really like his style. However ... I had also forgot how much drinking was involved in his writing. Today with so much living under my belt I find that aspect so very depressing. There are some real gems in the collection. My favorites are the 2 parts of The Big-hearted River.

Horrifyingly violent. Disappointing in that men are no doubt today.one would think we'd evolve as beings, and we don't eh.

Surely it’s a good thing I knew of Hemingway while I was in high school and had the opportunity to read “For whom the Bell Tolled”. Had this been the first book I picked up written by him I’m certain I never would’ve read another.

LifeLong Learning USC-A.....Fall 2019Studies In The Story CycleAs a newcomer to Aiken, SC, I enrolled, this fall, in the LifeLong Program for older adults at USC-A.In Our Time is my first Hemingway book....So,etching I am not proud of saying. Why haven’t I read before? Looking forward to discussing in class today...

This is an excellent collection of Hemingway’s early short stories, originally published in 1925. In A Moveable Feast, the author’s memoir of his days as a young writer in Paris, he describes the struggle he had to sell his stories, and when you read this collection you wonder what publishers and readers were looking for in those days. It seems to me that these stories would do credit to a much more mature writer than Hemingway was when he wrote them. You can wonder how much of the material is autobiographical, and it’s obvious that Hemingway drew heavily on his knowledge of trout fishing, skiing, horse racing, the Alps, the American Mid-West. What is more valuable though is to see how his characteristic and unique style was developing. He called it the Iceberg Theory, and it’s something you either love or hate. It means that what’s not expressed is as important as what is there on the page. It’s as if what we see in published form is a fraction of what Hemingway actually wrote, because when he was redrafting he stripped out anything he considered extraneous: adjectives, adverbs, filler clauses. Lesser writers feel a need to describe everything. Hemingway doesn’t. He gives you the bones, and that’s all you need. It means that when two characters are having a conversation you get the idea that they arrived in a café by magic and the double whiskies arrived by magic and they keep on coming every two minutes…..It’s because Hemingway doesn’t feel the need to describe how they crossed the street to the café or asked for a table for two or studied the menu…..He just gets on with the important stuff. You can dismiss Hemingway’s writing as just ultra-macho nonsense about masculine things that are totally unfashionable these days like hunting or bullfighting; or you can look under that tough, lean exterior and see the emotion that’s unexpressedbeneath. The Nick Adams stories are a fine early example of this. My only caveat with this book is that it is rather thin (and can easily be read in a day), and if you’re really into Hemingway you’d get more for your money if you bought The First Forty-Nine Stories or the Collected Short Stories, i.e. editions that have everything that’s here but with a lot more besides.

Buyer beware, the condition of this book was nothing like as advertised and it came annotated with a teenager's inept comments with a soiled cover and bent pages, typesetting that was lopsided and a generally unusable version that will now be given to a charity shop as Amazon does not allow for a refund on this purchase.Honest disclosure of what you can expect from the purchased copy would be appreciated..

The stories are a pleasure to read, but more for gauging Hemingway’s evolution as a writer than anything else. The prose is refreshingly down to earth.

I start discover this great writer 👍👏

Arrived on time and as described, very happyThank you