content: Telltale sign of an idiot: they like this bookBukowski, a literary radical, says of 'Old Man': this f*'n blows.Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and his short stories are for the most part excellent works, but contrary to popular (e.g. stupid, wrong) perception he never did regain his craft.I have never exaggerated anything in my life, and the single most embarrassing instance in the history of letters was the awarding of the pulitzer in '53 and nobel prize for lit in '54 to this novella. This work is the single greatest justification for suicide.Overall Hemingway (the drunkard) is an overrated bum. The louse stole his much copped prose from Sherwood Anderson ('Winsburg, Ohio' humiliates anything Hemingway ever hacked out) and Gertude Stein (no one cares about this broad...).Negative infinity stars.