This is the first of Hemingway's work that I've enjoyed. It blends memoir and novel aspects so even though it's a true story, it becomes easy-to-read fiction. His sentences don't feel as rough and short as they traditionally are. He describes Paris with love and you really get to know the people that he meets. His adventures with F. Scott Fitzgerald were riveting and so funny I couldn't stop reading. You can tell that he respects the writers and artists around him. Every name drop was a little piece of history! The best chapter in the book was "Shakespeare and Company." Just when I thought that I couldn't love that bookstore more, Hemingway makes it sound even more wonderful.