They made this claim after studying more than 100 volumes of George III’s medical records - which are based on very different concepts of illness and disease than our present day. Ida Macalpine and Richard Hunter, a mother-and-son team of psychiatrists. The notion that the king had acute porphyria, which interferes with the body’s ability to make hemoglobin, was put forth most famously in the mid-1960s by Drs.
and bad water at that).A poor diagnosis is especially difficult to disprove, especially when it becomes part of popular “historical” accounts. That back book blurb has about as much to do with the actual novel as a Bud Light can has to do with beer. The back blurb mentions an "amazing love" (I'm assuming Harry and his wife's, which is piss poor blurb-writing if I ever saw it), and it says he's caught up in a love affair (he barely sees two of the characters, one time at a bar, who THEY have the affair - not him).
The back blurb also doesn't do this book much justice (which luckily I only read after being 2/3rds of the way through the novel). We're told how amazing he is by his wife, we're told how handsome he is by an ugly woman at a bar, etc. Ultimately just none of the characters felt great in this either, Harry comes off as flat. Especially how it transcends just this book and its in multiple works of his (books / short stories).
Hemingway talks rather than thats how Character X talks. So things like racial language (the n-word and the Asian c-word) in the book more comes off as thats how E. I also mostly feel like the characters are him so their actions and dialogue is his actions and dialogue, like surrogate characters, rather than their own entities. Sometimes I find him deep and insightful and love his prose, and then others it just comes off as poor and amateur hour. Its funny, I have a hate/love relationship with Hemingway. The various chapters that are POV and then are omniscient, the going back and forth, the things like Harry losing his arm basically happening off-screen, the bad way that he tried to show the intersecting lives of the rich and the poor. Its not that its Hemingway's style that is bad its just the execution of it in this book. It screams amateurish and first-time writing. I technically finished this yesterday (9.23) (because I only had about 4 pages to go when I got to to work) ironically at work where when I didn't get the promotion I was told I read too much on my breaks and I should be spending that time socializing with my co-workers.īut anyway.
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