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The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Linda · 10 posts · 27 views

last updated Feb 12, 2015 12:36AM

Pass the tissues, please!
By Tiffany , WristStrong · 8 posts · 17 views

last updated Dec 22, 2014 04:06PM

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Feb 12, 2018 Linda rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classic, fiction, paperback, book-discussion-read, 2018

I can't say there were any characters that I was rooting for. It kept reminding me of The Great Gatsby. Sometimes the dialogue was difficult to follow - some anachronistic.

Really eager for the book discussion on Tuesday evening. ...more

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Jun 14, 2010 Deedee rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: modern-library-100-novels, rws-canon-bonus-points, banned-books, challenge-2012-winter, classics, time-magazine-100-novels, rory-gilmore-reading-challenge, classic-gr-9-thru-12, nobel-prize-fiction-writer, whitney-4-and-5-star

A line from the book sums up the book:
From Ch. XVII:
" 'I'm rather drunk,' Mike said. 'I'll stayrather drunk. This is all awfully amusing, but it's not too pleasant.' "

The good: The dialog. Approximately half the novel is told as dialog. The impression is that you are sitting at the next table in the cafe overhearing the dialog.

The bad: the characters are involved solely in drinking, fistfights, fishing (!) and watching bullfights. Yawn.

I'd recommend this one for a narrow group of readers:
(1) req ...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Natalie rated it really liked it

I read this in high school as well, but did not get the same things out of the book. I enjoyed it much more this time, I spent the entire book wishing I was back in Spain and France - but probably a little overly-nostalgic about the times when a name could get you credit at any hotel. It was very fun to read after seeing Midnight in Paris. I also felt strangely drawn to the bottle...

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Apr 08, 2018 Judy rated it really liked it

I've been rereading some classics that I "read" in high school and college. I really enjoyed this book SO much more this time. Maybe it's because I read it and didn't skim it in order to not embarrass myself in class. ...more

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Jul 03, 2007 Tiffany rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: recommendedby-a, 1001-books, literature, classics, nanoremo

A good book ... I don't quite get what all of the hubbub over this book is about, but maybe if I'd read it in its own era I'd get it better... Maybe the characters would be more noteworthy and the style would be more remarkable.

Still, a good read. ...more

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