Under Kilimanjaro

Much better editing. Going to read “How it Was” by Mary Welsh Hemingway next.

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I read Green Hills of Africa and Under Kilimanjaro back to back for pleasure. It was as if there were two different writers. When Hemingway's writing works, I get drawn into it and I don't think about the construction of the text. Green Hills of Africa was an easy read. Under Kilimanjaro was work.

I love this book...maybe others find it a bit rough or unfinished and perhaps it is- but you do find the one true sentence in this book. it is one of my favorites.

Who am I to rate Hemmingway? This was an entertaining story of a period in Hemmingway's life in Africa. Told well with a fair amount of detail. It brought back memories of Kenya accurately. As an aside, my 8th grade English teach would not have approved of many of the sentences, but they worked well in carrying the narrative. I was disappointed in his treatment of his wife, who came off as an airhead, and of his African servants who were not much better. I am not a moralist, but I was appalled that he had sex with his African "fiance" the day his wife flew to Nairobi. Finally, this is an unfinished novel, and reading an unfinished novel is like having sex without an orgasm. Nice, but what's the point.

Love Hemingway.

One of the last books that Hemingway wrote. Shows his unique artistic style.

A must for Hemingway aficionados. Just when you thought there was nothing new, up pops this manuscript! Readers should know, however, that this book is an expanded version of 'True at First Light', which was published some time ago. There is not much that is new in it, and like a lot of manuscripts that were not published during an author's lifetime, there was a reason: it is not Hemingway at his best. But scholars won't want to miss it. The writing has the inimitable minor key atmosphere of vintage Hemingway, and there are numerous echoes of his other works.