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Summary: The Sun Also Rises
Review: I thought the book The Sun Also Rises was a book for "book worms." The book was ok, I guess. It was some what interesting. I thought that the book was kind of boring also. I'm not a big reader so I guess that makes a big part of it. It's considered a classic and a great book because of who it was written by and the fact that the book was written in the 30's.
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Summary: Great for those who feel "lost"
Review: I had to read "The Sun Also Rises" for school. As a sixteen-year-old, I could very well say how much I thought the story [was bad] but in all honest, I really enjoyed this book. I was about the "Lost Generation" feeling out of place after World War I. Trying to go on with there lives in a war that changed their lives forever. They are looking for meaning for life and truth and freedom. I think the thing that made me so intrigued in this book is that ii was a real story. About real people. And there real problems. Real people, trying to grab a hold onto thier lives. Trying to find where they belong. With there same old boring problems and their same old mixed up lives. This book, in a way, speaks to me.
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Summary: Hemmingways classic
Review: This is undoubtedly one of Hemingways masterpieces and I rate this as one the finest books I've read to date. The way he incorporates his characters into the novel is unsurpassed, or maybe it is the lack of character that makes this a classic.
The Sun Also Rises is a must have and buying this book is suggested for all readers alike. I can safely say this should be one of the Hemingway titles you should try out along with To Whom the Bell Tolls. Simply a masterpiece!
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Summary: The Sun?
Review: I thought this novel was quite boring. Let me give you the bottom line. A group of people drank at clubs to get away from their problems and all they thought about was sex. Everyone is this story is so concerned about themselves that it's sickening. All they think about is how they need to satisfy their sexual needs and to cope with that, they drank like every night. I thought Jake, the main character and the narrator, shouldn't have gone through all of this. He doens't deserve all this pain. He's an innocent man that just wants his "crush" Brett to return his love.
This novel is somewhat similar to modern life now. People do drink to get away from their everyday troubles. But after reading this novel, you realize that love is not about sex. It's about true love.
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Summary: The Sun Also Rises Review
Review: Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises is a tragic, enteretaining and important story. The author captured the feelings of desperation, and hopelessnes that the author along with many other survivors of the trenches experienced after WWI. This book is, I believe, is especially important now as America embarks upon another war. We should read this and remember the devasting effects war can have on a generation of young people. I also think that The Sun Also Rises, a timeless classic, no doubt.No other author could capture such a tragedy as elegently as hemmingway. But i think its a bit hard to follow, and understand easily. But this book contains good contents and good use of words.
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Summary: The Sun never Rises
Review: This book is a bit boring to me, although it shows many emotions of different characters.The main character Jake, is a very mysterious and self-conscience man. In the beginning of this novel the story taked place in Paris, France. As you read on you encounter many charatcers. In the begining of the chapter you are introduced to Robert Cohn. He plays a minor part of this story, but helps bring out Jake's personality in ths novel. Brett palkys a big part in Jake's life. Brett and Jake have feelings for one another, but cannot be together because of complications with Jkae's body. Thre are other characters, but these three are the most you will see and read about. The time in which this novel taked palce and now times are similar in ways. In both the characters in the novel and people now-a-days, turn to alcohol for reliefand have tendencies to party all night long. Yet, there are parts in the book I cannot believe can occur, but this may be a good part of the novel. a place where dreams may happen.
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Summary: Japan is the land of the rising sun...
Review: Why didn't it take place there? GOSH!! I'm just kidding. I thought The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway was an excellent story. Hemingway intergraded real life situations into the story making it easier for readers to relate to the book. Today there are people like Bill and Jake. Alcoholism is a big issue, just as it was then. Also, people still go traveling for leisure and partying to drink. Today there are still expatriates. Maybe not as much in the book for the same reason -maybe there is-, but in a I can say that there are a lot of people today who do because their profession causes them a LOT of frustration. Hemingway way showed his point of view in destructiveness through drinking and sex.
Which is the reason why I like the book. Hemingway wasn't afraid to write about what was going on in society then. Another reason why I liked the Sun Also Rises is on how the relationships weren't clichéd. In the story, the characters constantly found themselves in doubt of one another. This can be found today, too. Is that person really my friend? Or are they just trying to be loyal? Does he/she like me? What signals are they sending me? To sum it all up, it's a great book. You should read it.
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Summary: Jake and Brett
Review: The Sun Also Rises was a pretty good book, but I personally think that Brett and Jake should have ended up together because they both were in love with each other. Brett pretty much just played with Jakes emotions and when he thought that he was going to get his way with her she just left him for another guy or asked him for help with some guy. She may have loved Jake but she had a stronger love for money. I think that if her lust for money weren't so strong they would have ended up together.
Earnest Hemmingway in all his books portrays him himself and his life excursions. Jake Barnes is the character that is depicted as Hemmingway himself. Jakes wound in World War 1 makes it impossible to ever have physical love with anyone, and especially Brett, the one he truly wanted to love. Brett's tendency to run around with different men all the time drives him even further into depression and drinking. The drinking also shows Hemingway himself, because he was a drunk.
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Summary: Surprised
Review: I wish I'd come to Hemmingway for the first time later in the game. You know? When I'd become a better reader so that when I broached that first work of his it could've surprised, downright shocked me. But he's a writer you can't avoid when studying literature and now that I've become more of the mature reader that really gets the story, that really gets under the skin of a work before I start crawling around in it, his style doesn't quake me as much, but it still does a little. I just finished this book, and then I come here and find such a negative response to it. That too left me surprised. Good literature's not really for everyone and then there are those that think he's nothing to Faulkner or Hawthorne or (insert great American author here). But this work is immense. That's all I can say: immense. These are real characters. Their lives are empty. Their hopelessness is embittered. Their adventures are real. These are the people that build up such a crafty facade of charm to hide that certain something not so pleasant underneath. And you get to meet them and walk around with them for a bit, and ask yourself, "is this the life I want to live?" and "am I living it already?" I think every time I try to say what it is that I like in a book (in anything - painting, movie, play) I always end up embarrassing myself. I'm not consistent. I like something in one author and hate it in another. I condemn an author for doing one thing and then enjoy an author who's a culprit in the same sin. Every book I love has a certain transcendence about the rest. It just does a little bit more. I don't know why I love it. It's the first Hemmingway book you should ever read (not the last).
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Summary: Horrible waste of time...
Review: Ernest Hemingway is the most overrated writer in American literature. Just because the man lived a romantic life (i.e. he drank a lot) doesn't mean he has to be worshipped by everybody. I hate the way people act like to be of any intellectual capacity you have to like Hemingway. Well guess what? The man can't write! The novel is boring, boring, boring. Nothing ever happens. The characters just go from one meaningless event to the other always speaking in short, little sentences and drinking gallons upon gallons of alcohol.( I'm not kidding here. These characters DRINK. There isn't a scene in this book without some form of alcohol being consumed.) Everyone raves about Hemingway's "curt" style. Well, it annoys me to no end. I think his style is due more to his limited vocabulary than his innovative ideas. I hated every single one of his characters. They all have the most annoying characteristics you can think a human being could have. They are whiny, spoiled, and lazy. I literally wanted to jump inside the book and trash them all. I think most people hate this book too but they are afraid that they'll be labeled "ignorant" if they admit it so they play the part and rave about it. Do not, I repeat, do not read this book. The sooner Papa Hemingway is forgotten the better American literature will be for it.
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