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colbyhewitt rated it:

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06/12/07

Read in January, 2000

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I think there is something cheesey about reviewing an old book, but I felt I had to write something, as I constructed my senior thesis in college with this book as the cornerstone, I have read it at least six times, and I consider The Sun Also Rises to be the Great American Novel. Why?
1) Hemingway was, if nothing else, a great American. A renaissance man, a soldier, a fisherman, and a sportswriter, a romantic and an argumentatively direct chauvinist, a conflicted religious agnostic who never...more I think there is something cheesey about reviewing an old book, but I felt I had to write something, as I constructed my senior thesis in college with this book as the cornerstone, I have read it at least six times, and I consider The Sun Also Rises to be the Great American Novel. Why?
1) Hemingway was, if nothing else, a great American. A renaissance man, a soldier, a fisherman, and a sportswriter, a romantic and an argumentatively direct chauvinist, a conflicted religious agnostic who never abandoned religion (and, it could be argued, never wrote about anything but his conflicts with religion), Hemingway was a stereotype red-blooded American like no other great writer. An argument could be made for Fitzgerald, but the crux of that argument lies in his relationship to Hemingway (and his psychotic wife. By the way, I love Fitzgerald. He is just a touch wordy).
2) The Sun Also Rises describes (among other things) disillusionment with the "American Way" and what that had come to mean (especially emphasized through the walking wounded, contrasted always with previous generations' "Dulce et decorum est pro patria more" mentality). Unlike other similarly-themed novels, however, the book does not take place in America. I postulate the Great American Novel must take place somewhere other than America, to reveal the way in which Americans can be defined as such anywhere, and to ephasize said disillusionment. I have other reasons to think thus, but suffice to say for the moment.
3) The Sun Also Rises does not end so drastically as other great works of Hemingway's, such as A Farewell to Arms (not afraid to say I shed tears at the end of that one) or For Whom the Bell Tolls. His best ending was in Old Man and the Sea, but that work (at the risk of sounding blasphemous here) was slightly too poppy to be his best.
4) The book does not begin with the narrator (the opening describing Robert Cohen). Americans exist in relationship to one another. The country has been built through a competitive spirit- fostered by democracy and that ideal we call "The American Dream". The backlash of all that is a natural inclination to "Keep up with the Jones'," as it were. Jake Barnes is an observer, separated from the Americans and from the Europeans yet constantly comparing himself, directly or by insinuation, to others.
In short, read the damn book. If you don't get it, read it again. It is arguable (perhaps, though I doubt it) that this book may not be the best ever written, but I do believe no greater has ever been penned.
You want a great trifecta? Read The Sun Also Rises, then The Great Gatsby, then Eliot's The Wasteland. Follow those up by reading Ecclesiastes 1 and the Revelations of John. Now go to a cocktail party and start a conversation. You're welcome....less

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08/25/07

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Read in January, 2005

If This Book Weren't Famous, Most People Wouldn't Like It

And with good reason. If I were Hemingway's English teacher (or anyone's any kind of teacher) I'd say, "This reads more like a screenplay than a novel. Where are your descriptions, where is the emotion??"
And he would say something like, "The lack of complex descriptions helps focus on the complexities and emptiness of the characters' lives, and the emotion is there, it's only just beneath the surface, struggling to be ...more

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08/30/07

I gave this one star because I wasn't old enough to drink or really enjoy much of anything when I first read it, and I haven't read it again since.

I'm almost certain I'd still hate it though.

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08/22/08

Read in August, 2008

I love Hemingway. Let's make that clear off the bat. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is my favorite book. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a fever dream. "A Farewell Arms" is one of the most exquisitively depressing things I've ever read.

"The Sun Also Rises" does not "rise" (get it?) to the level of those books. Or maybe I'm an idiot. It's possible. This book is supposedly one of his masterpieces - if not his magnum opus. I thought it was boring, poin...more I love Hemingway. Let's make that clear off the bat. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is my favorite book. "The Old Man and the Sea" is a fever dream. "A Farewell Arms" is one of the most exquisitively depressing things I've ever read.

"The Sun Also Rises" does not "rise" (get it?) to the level of those books. Or maybe I'm an idiot. It's possible. This book is supposedly one of his masterpieces - if not his magnum opus. I thought it was boring, pointless, and other synonyms for boring and pointless.

The book is about Jake Barnes, an ex-patriate living in Paris. He was wounded in World War I and is now impotent. He is in love with Ashley, who is a... What did they call sluts in the early 20th Century? Because that's sort of what she is, though she has a tender place in her heart for Jake, to whom she keeps returning. Jake is a journalist, apparently haunted by the war, and he spends his time drinking in Paris. There's also a guy named Robert Cohn, a former boxer, who's also in love with Ashley. Bill and Mike also hang around; Mike was originally in a relationship with Ashley, before he lost her to Cohn, her in turn lost her to a Spanish bullfighter.

The plot, as it is, involves a bunch of drinking in Paris. Jake drinks a lot, stumbles home, then drinks some more before falling asleep. (The drinking and stumbling home reminds me of my own life, which is worth at least one star). Jake eventually takes the train to Spain to do some fishing. Hemingway describes the scene in excruciating detail. The walk to the creek. The heat of the sun. The taste of the wine. It is all very vivid, and beautifully written, but really, it didn't go anywhere. It seemed like filler. The lack of a plot normally wouldn't bother me much, but the book as a whole just wasn't working for me. I didn't care for the characters, who are mostly drunken, indolent, well-off whiners; also, I hold Hemingway to a higher standard.

Eventually, they go to Pamplona to watch the bullfights. There is drinking. Fighting. Drinking. Bullfighting. Drinking. Drinking. Passing out. Drinking. I actually got a contact drunk from reading this book.

There are some good things, here. As I mentioned earlier, Hemingway is a master of description. His prose is deceptively simple; his declarations actually do a great deal to put you there, into the scene, with immediacy. The book also features one of Hemingway's most famous quotes: "Nobody lives life all the way up, except bullfighters." Apparently, this is a profound statement out of context. In context, I almost missed it.

The best part of the book is the last lines, uttered by Jake Barnes: "Isn't it pretty to think so." I'll leave it to you to determine its meaning. As for me, I am anxiously awaiting the moment when, after a night of hard drinking, I can use this line on someone who has just uttered an inane comment.

I wait and I wait and I wait. ...less

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Brian rated it:

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05/14/08

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My dad was a big Hemingway fan and tried to turn me on to it when I was a kid, but I didn't get it. I liked the Old Man and the Sea, and I vaguely remember reading A Farewell to Arms, or maybe it was For Whom the Bell Tolls; I really don't recall, and I know I wasn't all that impressed when I read it then. Then of course in college I was assigned many of his short stories, and I liked them alright, but they seemed so dry, detached, postured. This time around, however, I have a whole new apprecia...more

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12/07/07

For a long time I was convinced that there were two sorts of people in the world: those who adore Hemingway, gush about his genius and lavish praise upon him at every opportunity, and those who despise him utterly. As it turns out, there is a third category: those who have read him and still remain wholly indifferent. I am that third category.

I found my copy of The Sun Also Rises in a thrift-store for a buck, and I figured, 'meh, what the hell?' It is supposed to be one of the fabled great American novels,...more

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10/21/07

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Has a copy to sell/swap — Read in July, 2003

recommends it for: anyone who loves Spain, France, or drinking heavily.

A magnificent and deceptively simple book. If you judged it solely on its plot, you probably wouldn't come away very impressed: a collection of American ex-patriots travel from Paris to Pamplona for the running of the bulls; drink too much and make fools of themselves; then return to Paris a few weeks older and not much wiser. Where Hemingway really succeeds, though, is in capturing brief flashes of life that any reader will recognize.

Again, I'm hardly qualified to propose and defend a the...more A magnificent and deceptively simple book. If you judged it solely on its plot, you probably wouldn't come away very impressed: a collection of American ex-patriots travel from Paris to Pamplona for the running of the bulls; drink too much and make fools of themselves; then return to Paris a few weeks older and not much wiser. Where Hemingway really succeeds, though, is in capturing brief flashes of life that any reader will recognize.

Again, I'm hardly qualified to propose and defend a thesis on the book, so I'll write about what impressed me. To start, of course, there are all the scenes that describe the art and beauty of bullfighting. Hemingway makes it sound like a fierce and graceful competition between humanity and nature. I have to say, however, that when I actually saw a bullfight I didn't come away with that impression at all. The odds are (understandably) so stacked in favor of the bullfighter that the whole process seems more savage and brutal than anything else. Still, it was Hemingway's description that drew me to see the match in the first place, so it carries a great deal of romantic power. Beautiful to read, horrible to see.

There is also a scene where two of the characters go off to a small village to fish before the Running of the Bulls feast. The description of the guys hanging out, lazily fishing, and waiting for their bottles of wine to cool in the river really captures those moments in life where you stand back from yourself for a moment, look around, and say to yourself: "Goddamn! It's good to be alive!" Makes you want to go out there and fish yourself.

Finally, Hemingway really conveys the wild revelry of the feast itself. The writing comes in flashes, like memories of a great night out. Dancing with locals in a tavern. Sharing a wineskin while traveling between bars. Fumbling with your keys as you try to get back in your room. Trying to recover fast enough the next morning to start all over again that night. The book focuses on the consequences of this kind of lifestyle, as well, but being a half-full glass kind of guy draws me to the more enjoyable aspects of the book. An enormously fun read....less

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07/11/08

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I always feel a little odd writing about books that are considered “great literature.” Mostly because I read either for fun, or to investigate particular subjects or authors that I find personally interesting. I’m not particularly interested in literary theory (by not particularly, I mean, not at all), and find wading through academic analysis of writing to be more of a chore than it’s usually worth. So in reviewing a classic work like the Sun Also Rises, I’m always conscious of the fa...more I always feel a little odd writing about books that are considered “great literature.” Mostly because I read either for fun, or to investigate particular subjects or authors that I find personally interesting. I’m not particularly interested in literary theory (by not particularly, I mean, not at all), and find wading through academic analysis of writing to be more of a chore than it’s usually worth. So in reviewing a classic work like the Sun Also Rises, I’m always conscious of the fact that I’m reviewing something that is generally recognized to be a great work of literature, and has been analyzed to death by academics throughout the world.

But I am not, as I’ve said, interested in doing a literary analysis of this book. Those who want that sort of thing should look elsewhere.

The Sun Also Rises follows a group of British and American expatriates as they wander around post-WWI France and Spain. The main character, Jake Barnes, is pretty clearly a stand-in for Hemingway, though I can’t really comment on who the other characters are supposed to be, if anyone. Barnes is also the principle narrator, and the story is filtered primarily through his perceptions.

The first half of the book, honestly, bored me to tears. It essentially consists of Jake and his friends club-hopping through Paris, having drinks, going to cafes, and generally bullshitting with each other. Despite the amount of time spent doing things, not a lot really happens. I suppose that someone more interested in 1920s Paris might find it more enjoyable, but it just bored me to death. Yet, somehow, I plunged on.

The second half of the book picks up considerably. Jake and co. travel to Spain, where they continue to drink, go fishing, watch bullfights, and enjoy the local festivities. There’s considerably more happening here, and while there’s still a lot of random conversation and bs-ing, at least it doesn’t always occur in bars and cafes. Hemingway’s descriptions of the bullfights are excellent (and yes, I know, it’s a horrible, cruel, evil, activity, etc. Hemingway still writes it well), and he paints an excellent picture of the Spanish countryside in general. His descriptions of people are a little flatter. It didn’t really occur to me until the end of the book that I had virtually no idea what most of the main characters looked like.

Why did I read it? For a long time now I’ve had a strange fascination with Hemingway. He’s tremendously unpopular at the moment in academic circles, but my father likes him, which counts a great deal for me. He’s got a very interesting writing style. He’s a boxing fan, and has an appreciaton for athletic skill that comes out well in his writing. And he’s the quintiseential depressed alchoholic writer, which is an archetype I’m strangely drawn to, despite not being a huge drinker myself. Though Starla got me started on the occasional beer while paper writing, which has really got to stop before I get too obese.

Bottom line—good, but not great. I’ll probably read some more at some point, but this one was just a little too slow for my tastes. Less Paris, and more Spain, and I probably would have liked it more....less

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01/25/08

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Read in January, 2008

I read this book because I wanted to give Hemingway another chance. I was trying to be fair, because I had previously only read The Old Man and the Sea (v. short) and some short stories. Unfortunately I still have mixed feelings about Hemingway's style. I did enjoy this book because it had some unique characters and the story itself did peak my interest. What troubles me is Hemingway's (over)simple style of prose. There were truly some beautiful lines and scenic descriptions (one of Hemingw...more

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09/10/07

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I read more than most kids did, at least more than the kids I knew—freaking retarded, sports obsessed hoodlums. However, The Sun Also Rises, which I read when I was 16, was the first time that I thought I had read a book for adults. Growing up, I remember seeing the collections of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and others on my parents’ bookshelves and thinking that those were for grown ups. I was taking high school French at the time but I was too landlocked in the Midwest to ev...more

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Jonathan rated it:

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06/21/07

Read in May, 2005

While remaining free of any epic-scale event to fuel its plot (in stark contrast with many novels written throughout the course of history), The Sun Also Rises not only addresses the human condition externally but conveys what it truly feels like to live and to be alive. It is written in the way thoughts are conceived, sharing with the reader a perspective on existence that comes from within, not from without. Whereas in most novels the protagonist is a person seen, watched, and analyzed ...more While remaining free of any epic-scale event to fuel its plot (in stark contrast with many novels written throughout the course of history), The Sun Also Rises not only addresses the human condition externally but conveys what it truly feels like to live and to be alive. It is written in the way thoughts are conceived, sharing with the reader a perspective on existence that comes from within, not from without. Whereas in most novels the protagonist is a person seen, watched, and analyzed by writer and reader alike, in The Sun Also Rises you become Jake Barnes, sharing his thoughts, views, and emotions on all that surrounds him (i.e., you). It is this aspect that gives the book its greatest beauty.

One common thread binding the novel is the impossibility of uncorrupted optimism and pessimism, hope and despair. Given the complexity of the world in which we exist, there is an absurdity present in all feelings of polarity. Any purely positive emotion or its opposite is ridiculous in nature, once all has been taken into account.

The tone of The Sun Also Rises is well-summarized in the biblical passage that begins it: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever." Our lives are fleeting, as most will agree, yet that which is greater than us persists. Though by default, we all fail to live on in the scientific sense, we are part of something more prodigious and preternatural than the immediately visible. This brings about two simultaneous and conflicting emotions: a feeling of smallness and helplessness, and a sense of pride and honor for being a component in the great scheme of human and beyond-human existence. We are holons -- complete in and of ourselves, while at once essential fragments of a system of proportions that surpass our understanding.

As a novel revered by many as a great American classic, The Sun Also Rises has also received an abundance of criticism from every class of reader. Whether deserved or not, the book accomplishes a literary feat - as mentioned above - that is far too rare. If one merely reads the book, analyzing its contents as an outsider or a critic, its spirit is lost. Upon reading, one must feel what the novel struggles to represent and become that which is its essence. It is a fine feeling and a relief to all who see that our lives and our worlds are far more manifold than any standard positive or negative analysis can provide....less

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k.wing rated it:

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05/01/07

recommends it for: misogynist, rich people

Hemingway,
How I loathe thee, yet write like thee. We have a strange relationship, you and I. Let me tell you why I didn't like your book. Listen, man, when they were all sitting in the bar at the beginning, I dug it. You wanna know why? Cause the chick mentioned about going somewhere, some far off land, but it was just babble. Yes, that makes it like real life, but also just so disappointing. Not only that, but all the characters are just bored out their minds because they are ri...more

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Daniel rated it:

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03/20/08

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Read in January, 2003

I have a very strange place in my heart for this novel. I spent many painstaking hours writing about this book and analyzing particular lines from it very, very closely in order to extract the real meaning of it. I venture to say that most who read it will find the primary theme as something dealing with the way war affects the human psyche. My professor, however, helped us see that Hemingway was really playing with the way in which the narrator can, or in this case CANNOT, be trusted. The m...more

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Cindy rated it:

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11/23/08

Read in January, 2005

Hemingway can paint such a beautiful picture with his words!

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11/27/08

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Plot Summary

Robert Cohn, from a rich Jewish family, was a middle-weight boxing champion at Princeton.

He started boxing because of his shy character and anti-Semitism at Princeton.

After graduation, he got married an had three children.

However, he got divorced shortly after and left for Calinfornia where his magazine failed and eventually ended up in Paris with his new girlfriend, Frances.

Frances is very possessive of Cohn and when Jake, the novel...more <html>
Plot Summary

Robert Cohn, from a rich Jewish family, was a middle-weight boxing champion at Princeton.

He started boxing because of his shy character and anti-Semitism at Princeton.

After graduation, he got married an had three children.

However, he got divorced shortly after and left for Calinfornia where his magazine failed and eventually ended up in Paris with his new girlfriend, Frances.

Frances is very possessive of Cohn and when Jake, the novel's narrator and Cohn's good friend suggests Cohn to go to Strasbourg where he knows a girl, Frances gets very displeased.

Cohn then travels to New York, alone, and reads a book called "The Purple Land" which is about English gentlemen's adventure in an intensely romantic land.

He believes every single word of the book and asks Jake to go to South America with him. Cohn says he thinks that he is wasting his time by not enjoying the life. Jake tells Cohn that he has no intention of going to South America.

That evening, Jake meets a girl named Georgette and they go to a club. At the club, Jake finds Brett, who is called Lady Ashley with a bunch of guys wearing jerseys.

Jake and Brett leave the club and take a taxi. Jake and Brett love each other, but Brett does not want to engage herself because Jake cannot have sex because of the wound he got during the World War I.

Next day, Jake meets his friend Harvey, who says he had nothing to eat for five days. Cohn joins them and Harvey starts to insult him.Cohn seems very fond of Brett and becomes angry as Jake talks badly of her. Jake gives Harvey money for a meal and Harvey leaves. Frances later joins Cohn and Jake. She claims that Cohn does not intend to marry her.

Jake returns home and find Brett with Count Mippipopolous. She finds him very nice. The Count says he enjoys life because he has lived so much.

Jake, Cohn, Brett, Mike, a bankrupt Scottish man and Bill, another friend of Jake decide to go to Spain together. Mike and Brett plan to arrive a short time after other guys but they eventually do not arrive on time because Brett falls sick. Bill and Jake go fishing together while Cohn stays behind.

The group eventually joins together and go to fiesta.During the seven days, drinking, singing, and dancing are rampant. At a bullfight, a young bullfighter named Romero amazes the group, especially Brett.

Jake invites Romero to meet him and Brett. Jake leaves the couple behind. At a cafe,Jake meets Cohn, Mike and Bill. Cohn asks Jake whereabouts of Brett. Jake refuses to tell him. Then Cohn knocks down both Mike and Jake. Back at the hotel, Jake finds Cohn lying face down on the bed, crying, asking for forgiveness. Jake first refuses, but finally accepts Cohn's apology.

On the last day, Jake hears about a man getting killed during the bullfight, but no one seems to care.He also hears that Cohn found Brett and Romero together and exchanged punches with Romero. Despite being in a fight, Romero intends to be involved in the bullfight. He kills the bull that previously killed a man and cuts off the ear and gives it to Brett. Then, he and Brett leave together.

Other guys decide to leave and they all get seperated. However, Jake receives a telegram from Brett requesting him to come to Madrid and meet her. When he meets her, she says she sent away Romero and wants to meet Mike again.They go to a bar and Jake drinks five bottles of wine. Then, Brett says she wants to see Madrid.

Brett tells Jake, "we could have had such a damned good time together" and Jake replies, "Yes, isn't it pretty to think so?"

My Personal Response

I have always enjoyed Hemingway's writing style. No adundant words or fancy words that made me look through dictionary. His writing always seems succinct and natural. However, I still cannot distinguish who is the main character. Is it Robert Cohn or Jake? Also, it may be difficult for us in the 21st century to truly understand the lifestyle of expatriates after the World War I. Nowadays, the lifestyle the novel depicts seems pretty common among young people. Still, the novel's key themes are meaninglessness, lost generation, sex, and dissolute lifestyle. Most of the characters in the novel a life without any purpose. Thier lives are filled with drinking, dancing, and fighitng for love.This is partially a result from the war. In the epigraph of the novel, Hemingway uses a verse from the Ecclesiastes.

"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever...The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose...The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to the his circuits...All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again." -Ecclesiastes

In the Ecclesiastes, King Solomon uses the word 'Vanity' at least 20 times. So, is Hemingway eventually telling us that everything is vanity? In the novel, even though the characters fail and do not find meaning in their lives, the sun will still rise and things will go on. Or is he saying that we should be aware of this meaninglessness inside ourselves and step closer to God? This novel reminded me of current state of our society. Is our society anything like the one that the novel depicts? I think it may be worse now.

Quotes

“You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

Jake responding to Cohn's proposal to go to South America believing he will find meaning in life there. However, Jake recognizes it is not a problem of geography, but rather lifestyle and thinking of Cohn.

"Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.”

Jake responding to Cohn's remarks about him not fulfilling his life.

"Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.
“Yes,” I said. “Isn't it pretty to think so?”

Conclusion of the book. This is an IF sentence. However, the reality is the opposite.

“I don't think so. I'd just tromper you with everybody.”

Brett talking to Jake about why she cannot love Jake. They cannot have sex.

“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth,”

Jake concludes that people have to pay for everything that is good in life.

“All for sport. All for pleasure.”

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Lauren rated it:

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08/19/08

This is my favorite book of all time. Despite his simplistic style, Hemingway manages to portray perfectly the feelings of unfulfilled love.

Featuring the "lost generation" of Americans living in post WWI Europe, The Sun Also Rises is the book that made expatriatism cool and put Pamplona's San Fermin festival on the map. Secret affairs, bullfighting, confused gender roles, and bottles and bottles of wine are just a few of the many themes and adventures you'll find in this classic mo...more

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09/24/08

This book is a great snap-shot of one particular life in a specific period. They all drink entirely too much, but I felt like I was actually there-good or bad. You can really tell that Ernest Hemmingway was a reporter. He tells the story plain and simple. This was an interesting escape novel. I am sad that the author killed himself. You can feel his depression all through his books; too bad nobody noticed!

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05/26/08

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i feel like anything one could say about hemingway will immediately be interpreted as lofty and pretentious, but: i could read his dialogue for days and am in awe of even the title of this book ["One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose." -Ecclesiastes 1: 4-5]

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07/08/08

In typical Hemingway fashion, Ernest draws out an unreasonably lengthy story with wan diction, dull sentence structure, and a tedious plot line. The authors distaste for women slips through the text, serving as one of the few interesting ideas Hemingway communicates. Some may laude the uncluttered language, but it ultimately draws from a story with great potential.

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Erica rated it:

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05/19/08

This book is a definate classic. I have actually read this before (a few years ago) and decided to read it again while on vacation. Hemmingway is one of my favorite authors and this is definately one of his best books. It is actually a quick read so it should be on everyone's to-read list. I highly reccomend this book

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