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Since then, I try to read something by Hemmingway every year, even if it is a short story.





I was the same with Orwell. Had 1984 assigned in high school, but I couldn't appreciate it until after after school. Kind of like Disneyland when I was 12. I appreciated it much more when I was 30.

Barry



I think I meant to say "I try to read something by Hemmingway every few years..." not every year, heh.


Anyway, no book worth reading can really be appreciated by a teenager, but I think it is important to make introductions to the act and the main contributors to the field anyway.

If you like Orwell, I'd suggest "Down and Out in Paris & London", "The Road to Wigan Pier" and, obviously "Animal Farm" even if you read it as a kid. I read, or re-read, most of Orwell that is readily available after I started reading Christopher Hitchens (a fan and biographer of Orwell). It was after reading Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" that I decided to go back and read Hemmingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" just a few months ago.
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