harley: O.K., YOU´re the moderator. But for my opinion the board will be less interesting... Bestseller lists you can find every month or even week in a lot of newspapers and magazins. I thought this board somehow special. Nevermind: my fault.

I´m sorry again for my statement regarding bestseller lists and music charts. I think there should not be room for bestseller lists on a "book"-board. I think they belong to "General Chat". Bestseller lists are just commercials, and their lobbiests are publishers, booksellers etc.

harley: I´m awfully sorry, but I can´t agree. Nevertheless, for MY opinion music charts are even worse than bestseller list (I´m a lover of classical music and studied Russian Literature and Eastern Europe Literature). Tastes of human beings are different...

I would like to state that socalled "bestsellers" are nearly never "literature". And bestseller-lists on this board do not help to share "thoughts about ... unforgotten literature and narrators". Some of the bestseller-authors should be forgotten quickly in order to safe the taste for LITERATURE.

bumble: Please don´t forget: These are ONLY "bestsellers", not guaranteed "GOOD" books.

Tuesday:
I think you should be very sober whenever you read Hemingway, because he isn´t a sort of dreamer. He writes simple sentences, he writes like a journalist, not as a poet. He shows the truth of life, not fairy tales. He is by no means a poet. But he knows very well, what he is talking about. For example: The Old man and the Sea. There isn´t not even one sentence false or fiction. It is the world of an old fisherman, whos fishing has not been lucky the last time, and now his catch is too big for him and costs his own life. By reading you can imagine every minute of his fight against the ocean, against bad luck, against weakness of his old age. And you will learn what is means, high-sea-fishing and fishing for a living.
And read some of his other big novels. Hemingway is the writer for the "lost generation", he is realistic and sees the world not through "pink glasses". He does not use euphemistic words, just shows the world and life and is it.
And if you think of writing yourself, you can learn by Hemingway to use short sentences, simple words, but full of meaning and truth. What he is able to tell in just one short sentence, others will need to write a whole book.