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Islands in the Stream Review

Of the Hemingway books I've read or tried to read, Islands in the Stream is my favorite thus far. All the great and not-so-great elements of his legendary style are here, from the deadpan prose to the men who try too hard to be men, but they all fit together very well in this case. The exotic island setting is perfect for Hemingway's trademark everyday-life-is-an-adventure motif, which for once is wholly convincing.
Thomas Hudson, a hard drinking, twice divorced, expatriate American artist, is an all too obvious self-portrait. But his low-key reactions to most of life's ups and downs, the inner demons he mostly keeps a lid on, and his begrudging love of life in spite of it all can surely appeal to the romantic adventurer in all of us. The three sections of the novel, bound only loosely together, follow Thomas from an average day in paradise to a tragicomic reunion with the lost love of his life to a Nazi-hunting adventure off the coast of Cuba. Along the way, there are tragic twists delivered without any sappiness whatsoever, as only Hemingway could do, not to mention a life-or-death fishing scene that rivals "The Old Man and the Sea."
I can't imagine why this is being marketed as a love story, as that aspect of the novel is probably its weakest point, although his (very few) women characters are at least marginally more developed and convincing than usual. It's really more a story of escape and coping with the lack of love, and it's one of the best I've ever read of that subgenre. Yes, as others have pointed out, it's a bit uneven and the first section holds up better than the other two; and yes, the editing is imperfect and surely not exactly the way Hemingway would have wanted it. But the whole book is worth reading all the same. Given Hemingway's condition toward the end of his life, we're lucky to have it.

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The Corporate Cult: More of What Men Know That Women Don't Review

Who is Zubaty you might ask? Good question. Zubaty followed the American dream: house, kids, business, and he even helped his wife through school. When she graduated, she filed for divorce and got half his stuff and probably most of his dignity. So what does he do? Cut a hole in a trunk of a car and shoot people at gas stations? No. He does what all of us wish we could do under the circumstances and got the heck away from the confused culture we are marinated in every waking hour. He spends his days traveling from country to country, island to island, with not much more than he can carry on his back.
By now you're thinking he's a nut, that he can't cope. Major publishers will not touch his work. He is refused any publicity by the major media conglomerates. So Zubaty is considered not "Disney worthy" and people have attempted to elbow him from the status of, well, being known.
Rich says it best on the book:
"You can't judge a book by lookin' at the cover...
And you sure can't trust reviewers you don't even know!
So flip open to any page and read any sentence.
Yes, NOW!"
Quite a bold statement when most authors just want a flashy cover. So I took his challenge. He's right. You can start on any page, any paragraph, and just read and read. I would classify Zubaty as a social Galileo of our times- he knows the score but people refuse to listen. They refuse to listen because he tells the truth in its dirty, raw, and sobering form. It's too much reality for those who haven't been tested in life.
I spend my days making good money designing tools and parts on the computer. Zubaty calls me a "manhole", a man who spends his days in front of the computer all day, worried about money and toys. And the nut was right. And I like him for his honesty. And I keep reading.
Zubaty goes on to explain that corporations are no longer treating people as people and instead as "units". No new news here, but he keeps going and going, paddling his way further and further from political correctedness, ending up in a place where you are free to think for yourself without worrying about offending anyone. He speaks of a village girl who goes to town every day to try to get a loan approved. She gets her family involved. She lies to her friends. She forges papers. Zubaty hones in with laser-like precision to the observation she's acting like a greedy dimwit who is taken over by American idealism. She wants the money but has no use for it. And then there's Joe the fisherman.
You can decide to not like Zubaty, but I don't think he minds as he's sipping coconut milk or fishing for the families who let him in. Read the book. You'll understand.

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