Comments on: Trivia http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/ Random thoughts for random people Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:10:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Simon http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/#comment-476 Simon Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:30:14 +0000 http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/#comment-476 Why Hemingway? Good question. Well, for a start I like his stories. I particularly like them because his stories tend to revolve around the places that he was a living at the time so even though his stories are fiction, they are based on real places and, perhaps, real people. In other words, you could really imagine them taking place. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is a good example: it tells the story of an American involved with an antifacist guerilla group in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War. His stories are kind of "exotic", if that's the right word. Far away places and all of that. Perhaps they appeal to traveller inside of myself? Basically, I just like reading them. Coincidently I have just finished one of Paul Theroux travel epics, "The Pillars of Hercules", and have started another one of his, "The Old Patagonian Express". Perhaps it's a sign that I should go and do more travelling! Why Hemingway? Good question. Well, for a start I like his stories. I particularly like them because his stories tend to revolve around the places that he was a living at the time so even though his stories are fiction, they are based on real places and, perhaps, real people. In other words, you could really imagine them taking place. “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a good example: it tells the story of an American involved with an antifacist guerilla group in the mountains during the Spanish Civil War.

His stories are kind of “exotic”, if that’s the right word. Far away places and all of that. Perhaps they appeal to traveller inside of myself? Basically, I just like reading them.

Coincidently I have just finished one of Paul Theroux travel epics, “The Pillars of Hercules”, and have started another one of his, “The Old Patagonian Express”. Perhaps it’s a sign that I should go and do more travelling!

]]> By: Dagmara http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/#comment-475 Dagmara Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:34:37 +0000 http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/#comment-475 Why so much Hemingway? Why so much Hemingway?

]]> By: Miles Barr http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/#comment-473 Miles Barr Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:11:23 +0000 http://www.simonbuckle.com/2006/08/02/trivia/#comment-473 'Comments are closed'? How dull. ;) ‘Comments are closed’? How dull. ;)

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