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Summary: Anti-semitism it is NOT.
Review: Jake Barnes' whole deal is that he will rip people down. He's angry and he's obviously being anti-semitic as an excuse to make up for his own (real or imagined)inadequacies. If anything, Hemingway is showing this as a way of NOT behaving. He captures the feeling of the time without necessarily advocating or condemning it. But let's not condemn the book for accurately depicting the way people felt at the time. In The Scarlet Letter, they were all saying women shouldn't have sex. Is Hawthorne a sexist or a activist.
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Summary: Snapshot of a generation
Review: The point of TSAR is not to convey any specific story, but the general story of the Lost Generation. The focus on atmospheric detail and characterisation rather than plot is purposeful. Hemingway gives us a portrait of youths who are aimless, without moral centre and weakened/impotent. A similar work, from ten years ago rather than eighty, is Douglas Coupland's Generation X. I recommend reading both: the deja vu is palpable. Those of us who are Gen X or Y might not find much comfort in having Hemingway as a partner in disillusionment and malaise, but it is at least heartening that those generations that get "lost" can still produce such beautiful (if stark) literature. The Sun Also Rises is not only a classic, it is as relevant in 2001 as the 1920s. It's also good for the Spanish tourism industry ;-).
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Summary: ernest hemingway reminds me of lynard skynard
Review: well, I just finished speedreading this book. apparently Ernie liked to drink and drink and drink. I like that. but there are so many parts of this book where they are not drinking. those parts suck. the bull was pretty cool though. and a lot of drinking was going on. what is pernod though? is it like budweiser? this book reminds me a lot of lynard skynard because I get drunk listening to their records. did ernest hemingway ever hang out with lynard skynard? probably. but who knows. but I hate this book because of all the parts where they're not drinking. it just doesn't make any sense. if there would've been more drinking I would have loved this book. but it sucked.
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Summary: sloppy drunk at 3 AM
Review: I can not even believe that some folks can show off their stupidity so proud & confident. You can not deny this book changed the face of American Literature, for better or worse, it had that much of an impact. Those of you who find this book "Pointless" and/or Boring should not be reading books at all. Can you not see the brilliant use of simplicity to describe love & lust, death & life (on so many levels, but apparently not on the "imbecile" level:One reader down on this page believes he could write a better book than this. Please do that! Great Art is subject to different interpretations and inspires a wide range of emotions; but plain old boredom with this book is outrageous to me; please scroll down to the people who did "get" this book and see.
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Summary: Spartan prose weaves a multi-layered tapestry
Review: The Sun Also Rises is a perfect example of Hemingway's unique prose style. The author etches a visually intense picture of the Fiesta, and he does it with remarkably few adjectives. His characters are made real by what he has not written, and by dialogue left unsaid. The story is reminiscent of Sartre's 'Age of Reason'. Both books portray angst-ridden young people in Europe between the wars, their desires, attitudes and relationships. There are many other parallels. Hemingway's book is more penetrating, and less pessimistic. It's definitely worth reading.
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Summary: Hemingway, pure and simple
Review: The Sun Also Rises is (in my humble opinion) Hemingway's best. It isn't as poignant as A Farewell to Arms, and it lacks the intensity of For Whom the Bell Tolls, but its beauty lies in its simplicity and emptiness. Towards the end of the novel, Jake remarks, "the three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing." The whole book makes me feel like something - a group of people, a place, a reason to live - is constantly missing. Hemingway's characters stun me in their simple-mindedness, until I realize that is just the way they appear to me. Jake and Brett and Mike and Cohn are so incredibly complex, yet are so tortured that they can't find the voice to express themselves to each other or to the reader. Hemingway's dialogue can be plodding (did anyone ever talk like this?), but his descriptions - of the drive from Bayonne to Pamplona, the feel of drinking from a leather wine bag, the glory of a bullfight - shine. The fiesta goes on, in both Pamplona and Paris, but according to Jake, it doesn't "mean anything." For Brett and Jake, life will go on, devoid of meaning but full of pain. The Sun Also Rises doesn't need a complicated plot to get that central point across.
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Summary: Anti-Semitism and Erectile Disfunction
Review: The Sun Also Rises (TSAR) chronicles the drinking and traveling of a handful of privileged young Americans in Europe. Picture MTV's Real World in the 1920's with lots of wine. And it's an all-white cast with one Jewish dude: Robert Cohn, a boxer from Princeton University. The Ivy League uber-honkies in Hemingway's TSAR talk doodoo about Cohn behind his back, but quietly. Aside from being known for its sneaky anti-Semitism, TSAR is famous for broaching the issue of male impotence during a time when the inability to get hard was simply not discussed or admitted. There is no definite objective or purpose in these people wandering drunk around Western Europe, but the story culminates in a quasi-pilgrimage to a bullfight in Spain. <new paragraph> This book is short and comprised of terse sentences, and is therefore frequently recommended to younger readers and people who don't care for long, detailed, flowery prose. But that is a big mistake: even though the words of this novel are easy to read, the 'meaning' of TSAR is layered and tricky. It takes you a minimum of two reads to actually understand it. (For me, I am still discovering stuff I didn't notice after my third time reading it!) If you have the patience to read the text carefully and severally, you'll see why TSAR is regarded as an American classic.
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Summary: An excellent example of Hemingway Prose
Review: This is not an enrapturing book. This is not a suspenseful book. It is not a gripping page-turner, nor a mystery. This is just a wonderful book by Hemingway. He tells a story of mid 1920's spain, and of almost-youths travelling and enjoying life. Its a book that makes you want to curl up with it and just lay about on the couch reading. I love Hemingway's writing, and have been a fan ever since reading The Old Man And The Sea. This book is more of his razor sharp, concise, and insightful prose. Definitely recommended. By the by, anyone who has been a participant of burning man ... can identify with the story, and the emotions and set of the characters.
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Summary: The Champion of the Lost Generations
Review: My generation found its spokesman in Kurt Cobain. Though mine is lost for reasons entirely different from Hemingway's, the need for expression and recognition is as strong as ever. But I think in this book Hemingway offers insight that all our "American Beauty's" couldn't hope to achieve. His characters endure for reasons they don't realize. Life is miserable, or at best empty. Jake Barnes and Lady Brett exhibit "grace under pressure" as Hemingway himself defined it. Ironically, for me, this novel is a reminder of the good stuff in life. Hemingway doesn't offer much hope through the dialogues between his noble characters, but in an optimism wholly uncharacteristic of his writing, he offers us a reminder, or the title. The sun isn't always setting, sealing disappointment and despair as it falls, but it also rises. Even when we can't see the reasons, through the enduring actions that endear Barnes and Brett to us we can at least hope.
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Summary: The Sun Also Rises
Review: THE SUN ALSO RISES is about a group of expatriates who are living in Paris. They go to Spain together for a week long fextival to see the bull fights. This is the first book I have read by Hemingway and I got tired of his writing style. While the topics that he wrote about really interested me, I think that he could have gone deeper into his subjects than just describing everything that happened in such great detail. I talked to my English teacher and she said that Hemingway focused on making his writing perfect and he achieved this by including every detail to make the reader know exactly what was happening. I really enjoyed the different characters in the novel, especially Brett. I also enjoyed seeing a relationship develop between Brett and the skilled bullfighter.
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