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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: January 31, 2018

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Jan 09, 2015 Johanna rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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I didn't really have any expectations for this one. My copy is an old Swedish translations from 1954. Ernest Hemingway is one of those literary people that everyone has heard of - and perhaps that was one thing that seemed daunting to me when picking this up.

However, I didn't like this book that much. It as OK. The writing style is very "matter-of-factely", and sometimes a bit too dry. You don't really get to know the main character that much, other than he being a fan of drinking mostly every d ...more

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Oct 25, 2015 Ciera rated it liked it

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Before reading this book, all I really knew about it was that Hemingway wrote it (which is suppose to be a good thing), it was about WWI, and that Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye was not a fan. In fact, this what he thought of it,"What gets me about D.B., though, he hated the war so much, and yet he got me to read this book A Farewell to Arms last summer. He said it was so terrific. That's what I can't understand. It had this guy in it named Lieutenant Henry that was supposed to be a ni ...more

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