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Though I read this decades ago it had faded enough from my memory that I felt it was time for a serious re-read.
The story is amazingly well written. One immediately identifies with the old man and somehow loves him as much as the young boy does. His stoic way of enduring suffering and his uneducated but noble musings about the world around him endear even the reluctant into identifying with him.
I was a bit put off when I read in the preface that Hemingway had not created this story from whole ...more
The story is amazingly well written. One immediately identifies with the old man and somehow loves him as much as the young boy does. His stoic way of enduring suffering and his uneducated but noble musings about the world around him endear even the reluctant into identifying with him.
I was a bit put off when I read in the preface that Hemingway had not created this story from whole ...more
Wow, this was pretty depressing. There is a lot of symbolism here, if you care to look for it. That alone could bump the book to a higher rating for me, but three stars means I liked it, and that's pretty appropriate for this one.
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