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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Start date: May 1, 2023

Finish date: May 31, 2023

Discussion: CLASSICS READS

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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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Aug 17, 2014 Brianna rated it it was amazing

The Sun Also Rises had been on my "want to read" list for a while... I didn't really enjoy / have time to enjoy Hemingway when I first read For Whom the Bell Tolls and Old Man and the Sea in high school, but his intrigue has always remained. About a year ago I picked up a battered copy of The Sun Also Rises while waiting for a latte at Crazy Mocha... ended up sitting and reading for about 20 minutes before realizing I had errands to be done. Those opening chapters stuck with me, though - which I ...more

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Sep 19, 2012 Jen rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

I did not love this book, but I can definitely understand why it is such an enduring classic. It's certainly a book of and about a specific time and place. And as a semi-autobiographical story of Hemingway I can also see it's appeal. And I don't know enough about the history of literature to know if this is the first instance of this 'iceburg style' of writing that Hemingway does, but I suppose it's a good example of that as well. I've read so many novels where the deeper story is just eluded to ...more

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Apr 18, 2008 Kim rated it really liked it

Shelves: book-club

This story seemed to be chock full of really unlikable characters--a testament to why drinking to excess is not a good thing. I really wanted to like Jake himself, but in the end, I just couldn't. I found many of the interactions between the characters to be interesting, especially how events from Brett's past affected her current relationships. The descriptions of the settings were quite beautiful. When Jake went fishing in the hills of Spain and then pulled out a book to read in the shade of a ...more

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