I'm not really a fan of Hemingway as a writer, at least not of anything I've read by him so far which include: The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls.  I did read those all back in high school, so I'll have to give them another whirl at some point as a lot of my taste has changed since then.

As for Hemingway as a person- a lot of what I've read about him is really cool.  The way he lived, the experiences he had are really impressive (apart from the alcoholism).  He won a bet that he couldn't write a complete story in six words.  He came up with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." and won.

Anyone a Hemingway fan?  Hater?  Know anything about him or his work?

I'll soon be taking a class about Americans in Paris during the 20s, and have been reading many books concerning Hemingway: A Moveable Feast, Geniuses Together, and The Paris Wife (which I loved). That being said, I do not like Hemingway as a person or as a writer.

                                                                                                                                                Rose

Not a fan.

To economical with his words to the point where the characters are wooden and unbelievable.

too economical with his words

No one was more economical with his words as Faulkner, when he was writing dialogue.

Today , the same can be said for Cormac McCarthy.

I appreciate economy of words.  Excess verbiage tends to put me to sleep.