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Title: Dull, dated Hemingway
Review: Poor Ernest! Rather than retaining his modernist importance, his "unadorned with a vengeance" style and macho persona have fallen the way of parody and this, his "best" novel, clearly shows why. As with so many stylistic extremists, one finds oneself focusing on the writing and not on the written (the former bizarre, the latter dull and unconvincing). And his adoring women, "hot" for the hero, remind me of an old Mae West movie where the men, for no better reason than they were written that way, are constantly praising the invisible charms of our heroine. Time has moved on; so should we.
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