The Old Man and the Sea in Classics Without All the Class

Mar 28, 2011 Ebster Davis rated it liked it

Spoileralert. Ok, I finished this story today, and it's basically a "fish tale".

Summary: "Well, Today I cought an 18 foot long swordfish, but the sharks ate' em. Oh well."

The story telling is a bit dry and the level of detail is a bit unnessesary. "I cought a big fish, I feel sad for the fish, the fish is my brother, but I have to eat him anyway. I am so sorry fish. Can you ever forgive me?"

To top it all off it is difficult to distiguish Santiago's internal monologue with the narriator's voic ...more

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Jul 30, 2010 Katherine rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic-literature-reads

I've been interested to read this for a long time. My English professor asked me to read it when I was in 5th grade, but just could not get into it. My professor asked me what I thought and I pretended that I read it and who knows what comments I made. Ever since then I feel guilty when I see the book, especially knowing how short it is. Finally, I took it out of the library last week on a whim and then heard Oliver Stone mention the book in his latest documentary "South of the Border". I got in ...more

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Oct 25, 2012 Ben rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction

Summary: Old guy goes looking for fish after a bit of a long time of not catching any fish. Gets a little bit more and a little bit less than he bargained for.

Things I liked:

Nice narrative, you found things out as stuff happened rather than being told how things were.

Things I thought could be improved:

Maybe a bit to long (view spoiler). It seemed sometimes like I was reading the same statements more than once. Flip side this might have set my mind up just r ...more

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