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caio  ·  4851 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Great Books that aren't all that great.
I read "The Sun Also Rises" and was bored to death. I enjoy nothing-happens stories, but this book it's just Hemingway's stand-in drinking, fishing, getting sad because the girl doesn't want him, drinking, seeing the bulls, drinking. The end.

I might try some Hemingway later, but only the short stories. If his novel are all like that, I'm done.





mk  ·  4851 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I'd suggest The Old Man and the Sea. Short and good. It's not optimistic, but there is an existential tone to it that weaves man with nature in a way that few authors do, IMO. I enjoyed For Whom the Bell Tolls, but it's not a cheery read.
caio  ·  4851 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I actually read "The Old Man and the Sea", but I read it so fast that I don't remember anything. I might try again.