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To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway. This was a very good read, and having also recently read Portrait of an Artist by James Joyce I found some similarities, just in that the language would be very simple dialogue and then suddenly the chapter plunges in dense stream of consciousness. Also read A Moveable Feast, esp enjoyed the Fitzgerald chapters, sounds like Nancy Spungeon was a reincarnated Zelda Fitzgerald, but everyone was too polite back then to say anything. I can't quite put my finger on it but the writing has a cubist feel to it - like Hemingway keeps showing the subject from so many different angles at once.
Currently reading A Farewell to Arms. I always avoided Hemingway but certainly he should be read alongside Conrad and London and Orwell.
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