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I've wrestled with this book for many years. I pick it up every now and then only to toss it to the side, because I find nothing worth caring about in its contents. A few weeks ago I picked it up again out of the blue, determined to finish the damn thing once and for all. Maybe it's just that I'm getting older, but I got on Hemingway's wavelength this time around, and I began to understand what he had to say. I am now convinced this is a great novel, and the last forty pages are surely as perfec
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"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.
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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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I love reading this novel because it's a meandering story about somewhat typical but glorified people from a time past - post WWI expat life in Europe. Also really love Hemingway's style of writing.
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Hmm... I don't like Hemingway.
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Mar 10, 2008
Nidhi
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Britta
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Kelly Lamb
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