false 10799 90 The best American novel to emerge from World War I, <i>A Farewell to Arms</i> is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. 4652599 book 1929 A Farewell to Arms total:24300|5:5623|4:9038|3:6578|2:2258|1:803| 24300 89320 30606 1342 5 14 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 10:38:21 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 12:32:52 -0700 2008
The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hundred so-called "classics" for the first tim...more...]]> 2 13 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 10:25:14 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 11:01:30 -0800 2008 2
Hemingway hims...more...]]> 5 9 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 15:10:52 -0700 2007 Sun Nov 18 13:27:21 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 20 false false Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 18:22:42 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 13:49:41 -0700 2009
But the settings of this book were beautiful, and the dialogue ...more...]]> 1 5 false false Tue Apr 08 06:46:43 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 13 03:41:01 -0800 2009 Hemmingway absolves language of beauty. And then the world.
His intent was to expose war's mundanity. His method rendered art menial.
*sarcastic applause*



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Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?

A (Hemingway): To die. In the rain.

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It's just that sad. Front to back, this is one of the more mournful novels I've read. It's about Henry, an ambulance driver in World War I. He is wounded and falls in love with Cather...more...]]> 3 4 false false Tue Jul 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 12:48:22 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 14:46:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun May 18 07:48:07 -0700 2008 Sun May 18 07:56:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 11:31:14 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 10:44:53 -0700 2008 A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, and The Old Man and the Sea) and I plan on now trying three others, but so far with A Farewell to Arms I have the same reservations as earlier, only worse. His prose is described as "...more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 09:02:10 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 20 09:28:01 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false true Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 25 13:42:11 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 18:45:35 -0800 2008 A Farewell to Arms so great. It is aboslutely exilirating. It is a simple story of a love affair between Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley during World War I, but Hemingway's characteristic spare style and first person narration gi...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 11:42:54 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 03 11:24:46 -0800 2008
Hemingway, was not only dedicated to sparse descriptions of setting, but to an even more stunted summary of love. He describes hi...more...]]> 1 2 false false Tue Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 05:23:22 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 07 13:34:04 -0700 2008 awful dialogue (if it were possible to have excised every word he put into the mouth of Cat...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 11:14:06 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 09:19:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Tue Jul 29 23:15:12 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 23:44:07 -0700 2008
I had met Linda a couple of years before on a double date with Michael and Janny...more...]]> 2 1 false true Sat May 24 16:05:27 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 22:26:39 -0700 2008 That's the plot of a weepy, mediocre and incredibly popular novel and movie by Erich Segal, from maybe forty years ago, called "Love Story." It's also the plot of this "classic" by Hemingway.
More spoile...more...]]> 0 1 false false Fri May 23 09:51:50 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 09:51:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 11:51:49 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 13:07:14 -0800 2008 4 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is probably my least favorite book that I teach. When I reread it last year, I was surprisingly happy with it--I very much disliked it in high school--but, this year, I was over it. Perhaps, unlike The Scarlet Letter, it cannot withstand a yearly reread.
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This is a great book...more...]]>