One way or another, the world does you to death. Twin disasters, the Italian Army retreat at Caporetto in 1917 and the hero's love for an English nurse create a final crushing pathos to this outstanding novel. Every part of this novel, dialogue, the sparsity of its detail, the sublime passion of the love affair and the terse reality of wartime conditions keeps the reader in mind that we are sharing in an unforgettable story written by a stylist at the top of his game.

Not a cheerful book. I remember the part about rowing across the lake more than anything. ( )

When I picked up this book, which was the first (and probably last)of Hemingway's work I read, I expected it to be written somehow poetically, with memorable sentences.

I was disappointed.

The Story is boring, the characters are uninteresting and the writing doesn't make it better.
The female character was so annoying, I was tempted to throw the book into someone's face.

The dialogues between the Protagonist and the woman were totally annoying, like she was telling in a kindergarten kind of way her insecurities about being too boring and him answering that she's not (though not in a romantical way).

The war in this Story is perceived as something boring, the love Story is boring, the only reason I finished this book was that I don't like leaving a book unfinished (well this was definitely not worth reading on).

I definitely prefer reading for entertainment than reading to analyse a book.



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Meh ( )

I will admit that I liked Old Man and the Sea Better. I thought this one stiff an boring. ( )