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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Start date: February 1, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: Revisit the Shelf Reread, February 2016

Past Reads:
Book of the Month, April 2012
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Past Reads:
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Apr 26, 2025 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was ok

Shelves: literary-schmiterary, fiction, era-early-1900s, classic, dick-lit

I've never read Hemingway before (I know! can you believe it? never!!) and I needed a book to read based on the last sentence for the Popsugar 2025 reading challenge. I guess I was in a mood when I picked my book, because here we are, this is the last sentence: After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

Let's do this! I'm ready for some snappy dialogue and a lot of rain!

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Wow. So, I got the rain I was expecting, but the snappy dialogue did not exi ...more

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Dec 26, 2016 Richard Subber rated it it was amazing

It's been a while since I read Hemingway.
A Farewell to Arms is a slow starter, but I learned to pace myself. The action is restrained but steady, and I realized gradually that a key element is the relentlessly realistic dialogue.
The American protagonist, Frederick Henry, is involved in every scene. The life of the book is his life. His recurring, desultory involvement in his own life and his role in the Italian Army in World War I is the backdrop of his elaborately played out relationship with t ...more

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Nov 24, 2013 Tom Britz rated it really liked it

A love story during WW1.

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Apr 24, 2024 Tony DuShane rated it liked it

Felt like it was 100 pages too long. I’m not sad I read it, but looking forward to giving Hemingway another try. My first Hemingway I’ve read. Late bloomer over here.

The war chapters were mostly great, the love story not so much.

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