Sun Also Rises

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Summary: Extraordinary!
Review: Hemmingway's account of a group of acquaintances in Post-WWI France and Spain wrapped a charm around me that continues to be present. His adjectiveless-prose threw me into the hearts and lives of the characters. He took me for a stunningly painful and beautiful ride through unattainable love, self-sacrifice, hedonism, and fishing. When I emerged from the novel, I had a new understanding of the concurrent sordidness and beauty that life is. DON'T MISS IT!

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Summary: awesome book
Review: i read this book for a high school project. i found this book very similar to the great gastby at first but when find out what the symbolism mean then you find the book amazing. the book is ambiguous in meaning but is clear to me.its a great book.

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Summary: Great Books Read You
Review: The Sun Also Rises can be read as a historical document, as an example of literary style, but most of all it is a powerful work of art that explores the nature of heroism. This novel, in many ways, offers us a blue print for surviving, healing, and overcoming the trauma of twentieth century life. When Jake swims he is attempting to achieve some kind of control over his life. If you don't appreciate the novel, give yourself a chance to grow and discover that the key themes of our modern age: the recovery of lost humanity, the quest for spiritual meaning, the attempt to fashion a code of living--all these themes find their expression in this fine, poetic, and great novel. If you find it difficult, slow, or boring--don't blame the book.

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Summary: Still a great literary landmark
Review: I can't believe all these wet-behind-the-ear reviewers whining about how "boring" is The Sun Also Rises. I think they've seen too many, way too many, slick formulistic movies. All they're looking for in literature, apparently, is a slam-bang story-line with comic-book villains and heroes. Either that or stories that are morally edifiying in the most simplistic way possible. It's a sad, sad commentary in this age of "Dumb and Dumber" that so many people cannot appreciate the austere beauty of Hemingway's prose. There is a literary generational gap wider than the Grand Canyon. I'd love to know which books these Hemingway haters find interesting these days. Besides comic books, I mean.

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Summary: The third time I read this book.....
Review: When I read this book at my 16, I found it a super boring work. When I read it at my 24, I still found it meaningless but a group of wealth young people hanging around in Paris and had fun in a festia. When I read it in my 27, I come to know what the book is going on. don't expect any excitment in the story. read the characters. you will see them all colourful in Hemingway's plain English. I do not know what it will be when I read it in the fourth time. But after reading for the third time..... I really want to go to Spain.

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Summary: Boring!
Review: This book was surely a disappointment.I always wanted to read Hemingway's novels and am sad that I started with this book.I could not understand what the author was trying to convey except that all the characters in the book are drunks fighting over a woman on a picnic.The characters are good but the plot is weak.

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Summary: The worst book I've ever read.
Review: The book was given to me by my teacher to review. We have to make a writen report about the novel by ernest hemmingway. The story is about the group of young americans is living in Paris in the years after the world war I. Before the war they might have become professionalsbut the experience of so much death and destruction undermined their belief in traditional american values.The story has a good theme but the story could have been writen in a better way. I would never read this book again. If it weren't for my teacher i wouldn't read it.

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Summary: Meaningless?
Review: An excellent story, which I've read it many times. It is at the top of my list of books to have on a desert island. If you can't identify with the characters, I doubt you can identify with your fellow man. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that commuters, 7-11 clerks, and high school students don't 'get it'. Hemmingway could write about adventure and romance, but this is his best book about people.

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Summary: Lost generation, aimless novel.
Review: We have only one life to live, so we can find some subjects worth reading and thinking about. This lost generation that is depicted in this badly written book is not one of them. Think about unsung heroes from generations that survive lesser known genocides, and the people who galvanize a society after unspeakable destructions brought by ruthless revolutonaries, guerillas, and militias. There are far better books written by less-known authors about these "lost generations" that do not go about aimlessly drinking, binging, and partying but instead do something more noble and redeeming, even in small ways. If only Hemingway were not so famous, anyone can recognize that this book of his was written in such a mediocre way, and he unfortunately chose a sad and hopeless subject.

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Summary: Concise, masterful; definitive Hemingway
Review: The definitive text of "The Lost Generation," this novel makes it clear why Hemingway's writing style as utilized here has become the de rigueur manual for the descriptive, narrative, novelist. The exotic locale of Paris in the 20's is peopled by Hemingway with equally interesting characters, who are believable and three-dimensional in their neuroses and post-war entanglements. Lady Brett Ashley leaves all in her wake as she convinces the reader that she is the ultimate socialite, bored by society and its rewards. The frustrations of the narrator, Jake Barnes, is no less than the voice of an entire generation made impotent by the anxiety of the post-war debacle which was the expatriate scene in Paris, bent on losing touch with the realities of the age via alcohol and all-night parties. This book is as fresh now as ever, even when the dialogue shows its age, because all extraneous description was cut by Hemingway to make this a real gem. The contrast between Brett, Jake, and Robert Cohn, a cardboard cut-out of a man used to accent Jake's anguish, is a realistic time-capsule of a cafe society whose confusion spirals into dissipation and self-destruction.