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This book is beautiful and agonizing, like Ode on a Grecian Urn. A love affair that cannot happen.
My favorite paragraph was “The wind blew the band music away.” It was in Pamplona during the running of the bulls, and it had been very noisy and dusty all day, and that’s how he described everything quieting down.
No spoilers here. It was very worth it to read it for a second time.
My favorite paragraph was “The wind blew the band music away.” It was in Pamplona during the running of the bulls, and it had been very noisy and dusty all day, and that’s how he described everything quieting down.
No spoilers here. It was very worth it to read it for a second time.
"Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton."
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, having recently finished On the Road, it was almost torturous to endure another book about a narcissistic, self-centered group of 'friends' getting drunk all the time. On the other, I did find myself caught up in the romance between Lady Ashley and Jake, and almost feel a warmness for them. And I really liked the ending.
The story takes place in Europe not long after the first ...more
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, having recently finished On the Road, it was almost torturous to endure another book about a narcissistic, self-centered group of 'friends' getting drunk all the time. On the other, I did find myself caught up in the romance between Lady Ashley and Jake, and almost feel a warmness for them. And I really liked the ending.
The story takes place in Europe not long after the first ...more
I was afraid to reread this one. I loved this book the first time around but I was younger and I was afraid coming back to it I wouldn't feel the same way. My disappointment in A Farewell to Arms also added to my fear that I remembered it better than it actually was. Luckily my memory stands, I still love this book. Sorry to be cliche but Hemingway really does show how the generation of men who fought in World War I were affected and wandering. No one in this book is really very happy with their
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The Sun Also Rises is about generation that lost its innocence on fronts of World War One - the Great War. Masterpiece.
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Aug 06, 2007
Leah
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Natalie
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Erin
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May 19, 2010
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