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Summary: This Is A Perfect Book
Review: This book is comes as close to capturing ecsasty as any book possibly could. It is as if Hemingway cut a physical chunk out of his life--all the passion and love and pain--and handed it to you on a tray. This book is a litmus test. Anyone who relates to it knows feelings of over-extension, failure, and desperateness. But, like the title says, the sun also rises: these characters, far from at peace with themselves, revel in what they do have. It is my favorite book and the most complete, revealing, book into a man's life ever written.
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Summary: Don't read the Amazon.com reviews before you read the book
Review: Because if you do, you won't be able to stop laughing. I made the serious, serious mistake of reading Boston's November 29, 1998 review before I read the book, and so when I finally did read it I noted every time "drink," "wine," "bottle," "bar," "cafe," "coffee," "breakfast," "lunch," "dinner" and their variations appeared, and son of a gun if they really weren't on almost every page. Every time I came across one of the words I'd start laughing, making it very difficult to concentrate on the book, which is mainly an extended low-level whine about how screwed up everyone was after the Great War.Seriously, Hemingway shows some flashes of brilliance, but ironically for me they didn't occur with style or even theme, but rather with extremely vivid, stripped down descriptions of the Spanish countryside and such activities as fishing and bullfighting. If you want to read the book for that, you're not going to be disappointed. But if you're expecting action and character development, por el amor de Dios, look elsewhere.
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Summary: It's the simpleness of his writing that keeps us interested
Review: Hemingway's writing style is naturally blunt and simple, which gives off a light weight aura that we can't let go of. When you read his The Sun Also Rises, while his characters are trying to not tear each other to shreads from stressing out, you are unstressful, it feels like you're on a beach while reading this. The Sun Also Rises is an example of Hemingway at the height of his ladder to sucess and fame, depicting a great portrait and passion of his writing. Delicate and peaceful, this is his best work of all.
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Summary: The sun also sets
Review: This book is over-rated. The story is emotionally painful to follow, and the characters are very difficult to sympathize with. HOWEVER, Hemingway is one of the greatest authors america has produced, and rather than formulating any opinion before reading the book, I encourage readers to give Hemingway a chance. Also a bonus from this book is that F Scott Fitgerald did most of the editing...you can see his style at work. I've been told that this book is exceedinly, almost scarily autobiographical. The characters aren't very likable, but the situations and the plot evolution are fairly realistic. Not Hemigway's best, but not his worst either.
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Summary: terrible book
Review: I had to read this book for english, and I hated it. The book has no theme, except that narcissim is okay. If you are a narcissist, and enjoy drinking, this book is for you. Otherwise, stay away from it.
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Summary: A True American Classic
Review: was required to read this book for my high school english class in my senior year. Since then I have fallen in love with Hemingway's novels. His book is not just a book about aimless people searching for meaning through endless glasses of absinthe and wine, it is about human longing. It is about the need for something to fill the emptiness caused by war. It is about passion and anger and all the range of human emotions. While reading I was particularly impressed with Hemingway's descriptions of the Bullfights in Spain. He managed to capture all the excitement of the corrida without overstatement. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good story. Perhaps after reading this novel one may develop the much praised quality of "aficion."
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Summary: I thought that "The Sun Also Rises" had no story
Review: I did not like the book because it had no story. It did not keep my nose in it, I love all of Hemingways other books but this one is the worst one I have ever read. I do not recommend this book to anyone, but if you like it then I cannot change your opinion
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Summary: Hemingway at his best!!
Review: American expatriates and a spoilt English Upper Class woman in Europe in the 1920s, the gay life in Paris, fishing and bullfighting, the Fiesta in Pamplona - the ingredients Hemingway so brilliantly used to construct one of the 20th century`s most famous and read novel. Here Hemingway`s structure, his narrative style with the simple use of language really came on display for the first time. A book that totally gripped me and fascinated me. Excellent, brilliant, simply Ernest Hemingway!
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Summary: Rot!
Review: Ernest Hemingway is quite possibly the most overrated author of the twentieth century. He is by no means a bad author, but he is certainly not worthy of all the praise he has received. His writing (in The Sun Also Rises and several other books) is much too simplisitic and passionless, and his plots are largely devoid of any real meaning or content. Those who praise Hemingway are likely brainwashed by the fact that he is so widely regarded as such a great author, and therefore assume that his writing is deep and profound, without actually bothering to form their own opinions.
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Summary: Not a very good book.
Review: I was forced to read this book for my English class. I really don't understand why this book made him popular. It was a pointless book that should have never been written. The worst character is Lady Brett. She is a whore. She only uses Jake when she needs to be comforted. I hope that this book will be removed from the required reading list of American High School students in the near future.
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