A Moveable Feast

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Summary: Why this book is Hemingway's most entertaining.
Review: Hemingway utilizes an interesting short-story-type format to give an excellent feel for Paris in the 1920s, the artists who lived there, and his own character as a young man. "With Pascin at the Dome" is my favorite section of the book; it never fails to instill in me the sense of contentment that Hemingway experienced in his simple living and extreme productivity. The style is typical of the existentialists; the prose is lean and content is exceptionally easy to glean. This book is a must-read for all Hemingway fans.

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Summary: Good book about Hemingway's youth in Paris.
Review: Hemingway writes eloquently about his youth in Paris when he was struggling to become a writer of note. He tells about the lack of money, how they lived in a cold, walk-up flat & famous people he knew. He tells about struggling to write "one true sentence" then another. Every writer, young or old, would benefit from reading this book. Wonderful description of Scott Fitzgerald's talent. Fine Scribner's paperback with quality paper.

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Summary: my favorite book-- beautifully written
Review: Since I read this book at age fourteen, I have loved it. Describing a time in Hemingway's life when he was poor but happy, it is a pleasure to read beecause of the smoothness and simplicity.Although he had no money to speak of, it seemed to me that when he wrote this he looked back upon this period with wistfulness-- for his youth, his innocence, before his life was spoiled.

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Summary: Simply Superb!
Review: Hemingway provides a rich and comfortable insight to the pre-WW I days of those who would become "the lost generation". The book is beautifully written; unpretentious and easy to read. Always a favorite of mine!

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Summary: A wonderful book!
Review: Hemingway`s memories of his life as an unknown writer in Paris in the 1920s is something of the best he has written. The prose is so simple and beautiful and gives a powerful reflection of his genius. The atmosphere of Paris is intense, the descriptions of scenes and characters so vivid. Read it and let Hemingway take your breath away - to Paris and the 1920s.

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Summary: Two orders of Cafe Creme in Paris with Hemingway
Review: SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL. After this novel, I would do anything to be able to have a coffee with Hemingway and his expatriates at the Closerie de Lillas cafe. The most astounding part is that this novel is TRUTH, maybe colored with nostalgia but are amazingly touching portraits of some of the greatest literary giants of the century. When I put the novel down, I felt like I KNEW Hemingway. There were so many times he would make me laugh out loud or sigh with regret! I've read a great deal of his more reknown novels, but this novel is tied for my favorite novel of his along with Farewell to Arms. It's inconcievable that such extraordinarily talented people collected in a few Parisian cafes in a few years, and they were all acquaintences. What an idea! His stories of F.Scott Fitzgerald were especially illuminating and hilarious, but my favorites were: Ford Madox Ford & the Devil's Disciple, Birth of a New School ( especially funny ), With Pascin at the Dome, & Ezra Pound and the Bel Esprit. Hemingway's wit and sarcasm are so real, they leap off the pages and he seems to be engaging you in conversation. This novel really opened up my eyes to my perspective of Hemingway, most of his novels are stories that are semi-autobiographical so we have to decipher truth from plot. There is no need to figure out what is Hemingway--because it is ALL Hemingway!

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Summary: This is Hemingway's true masterpiece!
Review: A Moveable Feast is Hemingway's most underrated novel. It is a lyrical and evocative collection of sketches based on the author's expatriate years in Paris, and posing poignant questions about the nature of art and life. A totally consuming read with a particularly acute section on the Fitzgeralds.

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Summary: Read this book. Seriously. I mean it.
Review: This is some of the most pristine prose in the history of the language. It is filled with Hemingway's most memorable observations on both the sublime and the mundane. I go back to it every year or so.

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Summary: moveable feast........
Review: This book is an O.K. book I say. Hemingway is talking about how the atmospher in the small city Paris works for artist such as writer and painter. He is basically talking about his personal life and he uses a very straight and strong phrase. He shows all of his sides in this book: the good and the bad. Who can ever says, after reading this, there ain't no moveable feast in nowhere? I guess nobody.

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Summary: Sublime Stroll Through Hemingway's Paris
Review: With apologies to Mark Twain and Somerset Maugham, this would be the one book I would have if I could only have one book, to read and reread it and savor it like a rum St. James.