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Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway (Classic Literature Series)

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I've seen the old film clips of Hemingway, read the novels and articles, and can call up the images of Papa Hemingway on his boat, or on safari, or just sitting on a chair... but nothing compares to actually hearing what he sounded like - how he would read the words he wrote - this is not only a MUST for any fan of Hemingway - this should be required listening in any American Literature 101 class. Wonderful.

ASANTE! { thank you in Swahili } Papa for your neat readings!

Go to Billings, Montana.

Get a room high up [ south side ] in the 24 floor Sheraton Hotel.

From there watch the train pass by. Hear it's whistle and the clatter of the wheels as the train rolls along the tracks that lie between the historic Montana Ave. and Minnisota Ave. - the infamous " sporting district " of old Billings.

Papa's whorehouse still stands.

Look over it's roof to the Big Horn Mountains in the distance - and Cody, Wyoming and Red Lodge, Montana.

Then play ERNEST HEMINGWAY READS ERNEST HEMINGWAY.

Listening to Papa tell his story, " Saturday Night At The Whorehouse In Billings Montana ", will then be something special.

I received a cassette tape thinking I was getting a CD. There was no return information or telephone number to call. When I got it, it was just a re-taping of old audio notes of Hemmingway, not a audio of a book, as I wanted. It was worthless to me. I even had to go buy a cassette player to hear the junk. I will never buy anything from International Books again.