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Shirley (stampartiste)
Feb 17, 2019 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-classics, golden-girls-book-club, challenge-bingo-2019
My review could be summed up with one question: "How did Ernest Hemingway win the Nobel Prize for this book?" To me, it is unbelievably awful. The style is, to put it kindly, juvenile. It reads like the old Dick and Jane primers that used to be read in primary schools: "See Dick. See Dick run. Run, Dick, Run..."

Here is one of the paragraphs at random:
I woke up. There was a row going on outside. I listened and I thought I recognized a voice. I put on a dressing-gown and went to the door. The conc
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Sarah
Dec 02, 2011 rated it really liked it
Welll, now I know why people talk about Ernest Hemingway with such respect. Lovely little story, feels like nothing happens, but so much does. This group of acquantances tries to care for each other, and just can't. They surely can drink. Amazed that any of the characters can put together a coherent sentence, they drink alcohol in such volume, and at such speed.
Why can't they care for each other? Lots of reasons, physical disability, class, money, its all there, and its all not there. They care ...more
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Alexander
May 12, 2015 rated it liked it
I liked it. It was good, and the more I reflect and think the more I like it. The memers say it's just post war rich kids drinking, and whilst on the surface that can seem to be the case, there's much more depth to the novel than that.

It's very much inspired by Hemingway's own experiences in Europe and the characters are characterizations of people he really knew. This makes the novel more melancholic, the loss of somethings in everyone's lives as a result of the War.

Stylistically it's very 'H ...more
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Ksh
Sep 20, 2011 marked it as to-read
Rachel
Apr 01, 2022 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 25, 2011 rated it liked it
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Dec 27, 2012 marked it as to-read
Anna Kļaviņa
Dec 30, 2013 marked it as bibliotēkā
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Oct 29, 2014 marked it as to-read
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Dec 17, 2015 marked it as to-read
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Sep 06, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Oct 12, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Niti
Dec 04, 2016 marked it as to-read
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Apr 01, 2017 marked it as to-read
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Aug 31, 2017 rated it liked it
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May 07, 2017 marked it as to-read
Jen from Quebec :0)
Jul 05, 2017 rated it really liked it
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Jun 21, 2018 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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