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

A writer is not manly?

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

And, that manly man loved cats.

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

Steinbeck, Faulkner… also manly

Jack London (just had to add my two cents)

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

“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

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

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

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?

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

After Hemingway, try Robert Ruark.