Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for August 25, 2021

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    jaxxxon58  about 3 years ago

    A writer is not manly?

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    LastRoseOfSummer 1 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    A week later, unshaven, dirty, and starving he finished the book. He blinked and said " it was okay".

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    catmom1360  about 3 years ago

    And, that manly man loved cats.

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    unfair.de  about 3 years ago

    Hopefully he didn’t watch any bad movie adaption of it yet.

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    Pedmar Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Steinbeck, Faulkner… also manly

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    AlanM  about 3 years ago

    Jack London (just had to add my two cents)

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Start slow, Bub, with the six word novel… ;-)

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    Sir Ruddy Blighter, Jr.  about 3 years ago

    “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” ― Ernest Hemingway, about William Faulkner

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    david_42  about 3 years ago

    An okay writer, but not smart enough to check for shells in his shotgun before cleaning it. Or maybe it was intentional.

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    well-i-never  about 3 years ago

    Come on! Really? If he’s never heard the name, starting him on Dick and Jane might be a stretch.

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    buer  about 3 years ago

    Bub really is an uneducated imbecile. Does he think that Alexandre Dumas or Victor Hugo or Richard Francis Burton would whine because their wife used their grill to cook ribs?

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    Michael G.  about 3 years ago

    My favorite manly quote from “Papa” was a response to a well-known Communist author who wasn’t pleased with parts of “For Whom The Bell Tolls”:

    “Go tell Mike Gold, Ernest Hemingway says he should go (screw) himself.” A classic!

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    timinwsac Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Giving it a shot? Isn’t that what ended Hemingways career?

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    theincrediblebulk  about 3 years ago

    I didn’t care for Hemingway when I first read “The Old Man and the Sea” “A Farewell to Arms” "and “And For Whom the Bell Tolls” when I was around 10 years old. I was a bigger fan of Tolkien, especially “The Silmarillion” at that age. But as I’ve grown older I find more in those books when rereading them. Truly great literature reveals new meanings each time you reread them because you have changed and your perception of the world has changed each time you read them.

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    Indianapolis Smith  about 3 years ago

    As opposed to cartoonists, whom EVERYONE acknowledges are the manliest of men!

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    CeceliaWD Premium Member about 3 years ago

    How in the world did he get through high school without reading Hemingway?

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    sbwertz  about 3 years ago

    Old man and the Sea was the only Hemingway I could plow through.

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    Ukko wilko  about 3 years ago

    After Hemingway, try Robert Ruark.

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