Hemingway's Notebook

Rating:
Summary: Goes Downhill After the Title
Review: I like a clever mix of fact and fiction, but after plodding a couple of dozen pages into this, I did not want to turn the page any more. I tried a bit further on and was "rewarded" by reading 4-5 pages about whether one guy was going to kill the chicken of this other guy. He finally does, and what is the result? Nothing much.
My first mistake was not noticing the usual sign of overhype-comparing a contemporary work to real classics: Ian Fleming and John LeCarre. The other tip-off is the author is a reporter for the Sun-Times and UPI and his reviewers are fellow newspaper proletariat. Their profuse gushing over his skill raises an eyebrow since I've never heard of this guy. In all, 22 cents might not be too high a price for this, but remember, you'll have to pay postage also.