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Summary: My favorite book
Review: This is by far my favorite book ever. I am sure many other people will lay out the plot for you in their reviews, so I will tell you what I loved about it. I love the bravery and leadership of the main character Robert Jordan, I loved how Hemingway used people such as the strong willed Pilar and other characters to only make it seem more realistic, and I mostly love how Hemingway painted a picture with Robert Jordan that is the example for all people who want to see what bravery is. No author could top this book.
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Summary: Sweet Book
Review: The book "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway is sweet. I dont know if I fully understood the book because one I am not a strong reader and two Hemingway is such a good writer and he is above all the most complex person I have ever read. I really think the book is for 15- and up. Over all I recomend this book to any one who likes a good war novel and wants to kinda know what its like to be in a war.
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Summary: Simply Hemingway
Review: This is book is "the one" to read if you really enjoy reading. Hemingway's work is just superb, the bold symbolism and metaphors make this a must have in your bookshelf. His style is simple writing yet under its surface lies a much deeper aspect and meaning. This is Hemingway at its best. If you like literature you will apreciate it, and once you finish, you feel enticed by his way of writing. As I said, Simply Hemingway!
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Summary: did someone say Hemingway eschews emotion?
Review: Then check out the passage when he falls to nothing. This is the best war book (along with Tim Obriens The Things They Carried which is way different, and about a different war, but equally powerful) that I have read. It exhibits everything and gets to the point of life and its lack of purpose if you cannot find something worth dying for, and that that purpose is not the real purpose at all when it comes down to dying. This is not a dark book, nor is it self-pitying as I imagine a less able writer would make it so soon. It is not even depressing, it is exciting and touching and well-written. And there's winesacks as well. "the bell tolls for thou," he quotes. This book gets to the connectedness and loneliness of people.
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Summary: Powerful, enthralling, heartbreaking
Review: No book has had as powerful an effect on me as this one. I have never read as effective a treatment of loyalty; love; fear; courage. When I reached the last page, after Jordan's injury forces him to leave his love Maria to carry on and he must await his death from the pursuing Fascists, he lies in the pine-scented forest (I can still smell it), lining up his rifle on the leader of the soldiers, the pine-needles pricking through his shirt as he lay, he waited for the officer to enter the sunlit area ... when I read this I wept. A tremendous, heartstopping novel.
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Summary: Hemingway's best work
Review: If you like Old Man and the Sea, you'll love this. It is similar in feeling and has a Spanish flair. I seldom remember lines from books, but I've memorized many from this novel. The opening quote from John Donne is as deep as they come. It sets the tone for the book, but is better understood if you immediately re-read the quote right after finishing the book. You really truly understand then what is meant when he says, "Do not send to know for whom the bell tolls....it tolls for thee."
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Summary: For Whom The bell Tolls
Review: I thought that this book was very good. Ernest Hemingway was very clear and you were able to even picture how it was in the war. I would recomend this book to everyone. It was sad and funny, and that is a good combination. I think that it had a very good ending and it was very well written.
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Summary: One of my Very Favorite Novels
Review: For Whom the Bell Tolls is a story that will be with you forever after you have finished the last riveting page. All other books will be judged by standards set by Hemmmingway in this one. The Tragic story of Robert Jordan and his love Maria is more amazing than any other I have read, seen or heard. El Sordo's final stand reads the way the greatest symphony is heard. Tension and crescendo that builds and builds until you become one with the characters and their struggle. I have never read a book that ends like this one, and chances are a first time reader has not either. Get this book. Read it. This IS writting.
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Summary: One of the best books in print
Review: This is an excellent, immortal novel. Hemingway truly takes the reader on a journey through his world. The characters are very real and the book develops with great skill and depth. This novel should be required reading for humans. For Whom the Bell Tolls has no bad points.
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Summary: Easy to understand but with a complex storyline.
Review: Ernest Hemingway is really good in making his story easy to read and understand. The way he writes makes everything simple. Also, his storyline is very clear but the image he is portraying in the story is very complex and interesting. He describes everything in a manner that you get the clear image but at the same time not bore you reading a description of for example a road. Unlike Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway is really good with descriptive sentence. Hemingway also excels in letting the reader decide for himself teh outcome of the story or how a character will od in a situation by during the course of the book he inserts certain images or otehr character's decision in a given situation and how they reacted. He covered a wide array of ideas from love, war, human relationship, death, and independence while remaining focused on his plot. His plot is very simple and clear but he also has the kind of themes that goes deeper to a point that it tackles human behavior itself. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a really good reading. It is good for any age but the subject matter ranging from passion and death might not work well with younger kids. In all, Hemingway's For Whome the Bell Tolls displayed clearly the life of people while they are at war but at the same time he is ble to show the emotions and experiences that humans go through while they traverse the hard life of WAR.
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