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Kevin Xu
May 12, 2009 rated it it was ok  ·  review of another edition
This book was long and boring that did not go anywhere,. The reason for me was that it was too slow, epsically the fact that the whole book is centered around one event that in most books would have taken at most 1/4 of the book to get done. The interaction of the characters was always the same, the past lifes of the character did not matter to me for the main hcaracter to make his decision.

But on the other hand, it had a great impact on one person, James Oliver Rigney Jr. He was so impacted on
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Anne  (Booklady) Molinarolo
This novel was difficult for me. As an avid Hemingway fan, I was surprised that it was so unlike other novels I've read by my beloved favorite author. Gone are the short sentences that makes Hemingway whom he is, at least for me.

He also uses the omniscient third person POV while shifting to Robert's and Pilar's POV. His use of archaic language also surprised me, and I believe that is what threw me. It was as if l was reading a direct translation from Spanish into English. But the 4 days and 3
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Michelle
Dec 29, 2009 rated it it was ok
Amy
Mar 12, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classic
BookishWasabi
Jan 23, 2011 marked it as to-read
Tonya
Apr 17, 2011 rated it liked it
Isa
Apr 24, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Kelsey
Jun 21, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: new-classic
Sarah
Jul 16, 2011 marked it as to-read
Halina
Aug 14, 2011 rated it really liked it
Casey
Feb 23, 2012 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: grungy-shelf
Brenda
Feb 24, 2012 rated it really liked it
Hayley Stewart
Mar 06, 2012 marked it as to-read
Thalia
May 21, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics
Diana
Sep 03, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics-to-read
Chris Lim
Oct 09, 2012 marked it as to-read
Pandora
Mar 07, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Misha Gericke
Apr 30, 2013 marked it as to-read
Casey
Jun 10, 2013 marked it as to-read-owned
Rose
Jul 18, 2013 marked it as to-read
Rabiah
Sep 18, 2013 marked it as to-read
Karigan
Jan 24, 2014 rated it it was ok
Shelves: xxignore
Summer
Jan 18, 2015 marked it as to-read
Jeanne Bufkin
Feb 18, 2015 marked it as to-read
Melissa
May 03, 2015 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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