/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/. I'm currently going through the (so called) "classics" and one author I'm wrestling towards the idea of skipping would be the famed Ernest Hemingway.
When I went to buy my latest batch of books I checked out a few of his own but I didn't feel like reading "A Call to Arms" simply because I've read a lot of war books and I'm a bit battled out.
Now my first hearing about Hemingway was in like.. Senior english class in high school? We read a really short story by him about camping in the wild and all that but before we did my teacher sorta went off on a monologue about how she really didn't like Hemingway, thought he was overrated and outdated, and that his works were way too overly masculine.
So was that true? Is his work going to just be forgotten due to it's outdated and non-progressive views. Should I just skip it and move on or is his work detrimental to literature? What did you think of his work?

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>>10365350
Kill yourself.

>>9439427
Stop stealing my prose commie.

You think that that that you're holding there will stop me? Think again kid

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>>9307583
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>>9288519
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>mfw an author uses a word with more than three syllables

>>9193947
Shouldn't you be on /pol/ right now, pledging full allegiance to an arbitrary, subjectively created idea of cultural and racial identity that nobody but /pol/ agrees to, and is also just as susceptible to change?

Or are you going to stay here for a while and shit up this board, and then leave when you realize you have the brain capacity of a ground squirrel, and really should go back to your blue-collar group of Libertarian and Conservative playful Fascists pretend-playing with actual Fascists because it's taboo comedy?

what was the most masculine book by hemingway?

My name is Hemmingway, and my gun will blow you away

>using a word with more than three syllables

>>8764256
>tfw you will never machine gun U-boats off the Cuban coast with Papa
Why even live?

>>8740946
Also a KGB agent and U-boat hunter. How could one man be so based?

the fuck you say about iceberg theory, you little bitch?

Beg pardon?

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>>6954092
>>>/pleb who makes himself feel better by putting down patrician tier literature lovers/

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine by Ernest Hemingway. Cowboy Bebop.

Papa.