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Good grief. How did I get to be almost-sixty without reading this book? It's a brilliant story of a group of lost souls drifting, drifting, drifting, and it's told with the simplest of words (I'd love to see what comes up if you ran this whole book through Wordle or another word cloud generator...I can almost imagine it...I'm pretty sure "good" would be the size of the Eiffel Tower on the page.) and thousands of tiny conversations and lots of fishing and bull fighting and, of course, drinking an
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Narrated by Jake Barnes, a group of American friends travel from Paris to Spain to see the Running of the Bulls and to fish. They are joined by the engaged English couple, Brett and Mike.
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It's the addition of these two who ruin the trip for everyone. Mike is a likeable man when sober, but as the days go on he is mainly drunk and obnoxious. Probably because he's in love with Brett, who spreads misery wherever she goes. Beautiful and cruel, she sleeps with anyone she can and also stri ...more
***SPOILERS***
It's the addition of these two who ruin the trip for everyone. Mike is a likeable man when sober, but as the days go on he is mainly drunk and obnoxious. Probably because he's in love with Brett, who spreads misery wherever she goes. Beautiful and cruel, she sleeps with anyone she can and also stri ...more
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