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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

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Aug 21, 2013 Chrissie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: france, favorites, audible-us, hf, love, spain

On completion, all I will add to that written below is that I adored the ending. This IS my favorite book by Hemingway. Hemingway has illuminated friendship and love in a beautiful and also honest manner. Note, this is a love story, a wonderful love story that rings true. Nothing false here. If other authors could write love stories like this, romance would be my favorite genre.

Although fiction, the book is in fact written about real people and real events, and it has an autobiographical basis. ...more

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Feb 13, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: e-books, fiction-20th-century, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, hf-world-war-i, nobel-prize, spain, banned-books, lost-generation

On the surface, the novel is a love story between the protagonist American Jake Barnes—a man whose war wound has made him impotent—and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. Brett's affair with Robert Cohn causes Jake to be upset and break off his friendship with Cohn; her seduction of the 19-year-old matador Romero causes Jake to lose his good reputation among the Spaniards in Pamplona.

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Jul 05, 2015 Susannah rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: dws-literary-birthdays, reading-the-classics

The Sun Also Rises is one of those books that I got away with not reading in high school and college (and graduate school). I have no idea how. But I felt like maybe I would appreciate it more when I set out to read it for the Dead Writers' Society Literary Birthdays challenge in July. I was wrong.

I've enjoyed what I've read about American expatriate writers in Paris in the 1920s. While I haven't read much Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea in high school; some of the Nick Adams stories in colle ...more

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Nov 22, 2008 Herschel Stratego rated it liked it

this over-rated novel is Hemingway's first full length work. the problem is its contrived twists and turns. granted, one should put lots of thought into a novel, but its so contrived, i could predict everything...as i was thinking too hard about what was happening next...and i was right...i'm NEVER right about that stuff. so..."boo."

its saving grace is its brevity and its charm and its emotional involvement. it's not a bad book...okay? it's a good first start...and i admire Hemingway for that... ...more

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