Sun Also Rises

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Summary: one of Hemingway's best
Review: An unforgettable story with an even more unforgettable cast of characters

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Summary: Aimless
Review: I really enjoy Hemingway's writing style, and especially Old Man and the Sea, but this book, like The Green Hills of Africa really has no direction. Most of the book is spent eating and drinking in this cafe and that during a seven day fiesta in Spain, but at the conclusion, I thought "what was the point?" Good desriptive, easy to read prose, but if there was a significant plot, it was lost on me.

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Summary: an excellent example of Hemingway's talent for writing
Review: The Book started of slow, like alot of books, but I found it quite interesting and an insite to Hemingway's thoughst of the world. As some parts were slow, others were quite humorous and enticing. I definately look forward to being mesmerized by Hemingway in the future.

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Summary: A candid examination of the human condition
Review: Many of the reviews I've read of The Sun Aslo Rises complain that it is lacking in plot. When reading Hemingway, it is more important to focus on the theme; why did Hemingway write this book? What is he trying to say? It seems to me that Hemingway is focusing on a basic range of emotions with the essence of the book being that poeple are so limited by what they consider appropriate in relationships. Jake and Brett can not have a romantic relationship due to Jake's injury however, they have all of the emotion and commitment necessary to have a successful union. Brett becomes physically intimate with several people in the novel, yet she is not emotionally intimate with any of them. Jake, on the other hand, is emotionally intimate with many characters including Bill, and the inn keeper in Pamplona although he can not enjoy physical intimacy. I believe that Hemingway is demonstrating the difficulties involved in forming complete and healthy relationships in life. Readers who appriciate this book understand that Hemingway's purpose is not to entertain, although he does so artfully, but to force an examination of our own lives. The closing scene in the novel just wrenches my heart as it would anyone's who has ever been close to having everything in life, but has just one impossible obsticle denying their dream.

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Summary: A time-honored story about living in post World War I era.
Review: The Sun Also Rises is a time-honored story about how people might have lived in the roaring 20's in the post World War I era. The story grasped me because of its' fine details, but left me wanting to know more about the charters' exploits. The story was straight forward. I didn't have to go back to glue the story together. The author, Ernest Hemingway, developed the charters very well. What I also liked was that the author didn't over exaggerate the events or the charters. He gives plain basic detail to invoke the reader to experience it from your own imagination. The story unravels in Paris, France after the massive destruction and havoc caused by World War I. There are three main charters; Jake Barnes the American expatriate living in Paris as a newsman, Robert Cohn a Jew from New York, and the Englishwoman Lady Brett Ashley a slut whom Jake falls in love with. All three went though horrible experience during the war. They lived there life the saying, "You only live once, so enjoy it while it lasts." So one day they decided to go to Spain to the Fiesta(celebation)of San Fermin, for the Running of the Bulls. The charters spend their time drinking and having sex to forget the war and to have a good time, but they never could seem to find happiness. Although the book is well written, my only complaint is that sometime you lose who said what in the dialog. So if you like to read about murder, sex, and alcoholism you'll probably like Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.

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Summary: Simply the best
Review: The best work of fiction by an American author of this or any century. I've read it five times.

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Summary: EXCELLENT THOUGH CHARACTERS ARE REPULSIVE
Review: I had never read Heminway before though I always wanted to. I read this book in a little less than two days. It really hooked me. An excellent novel, but the characters are infuriatingly childish and irresponsible.

If you are sick (like myself) of writers who take five pages to describe an armchair (mainly because they're in love with their own writing) I'd give Hemingway a go. His writing style is quite direct and unadorned. It's lovely, to be frank.

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Summary: had a ball reading this one
Review: Loved papa's prose stylings. The characters were glamorous, well-drawn. So many good scenes, intriguing characters, situations. Probably helps that I'm in my thirties. Don't know if I'd have appreciated it as much 10 years ago. The unique prose style and the impotence factor involving the narrator helped this literary effort rise to classic status. Don't you love my prose stylings?

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Summary: Another Hemmingway masterpiece.
Review: Magnificent. Hemmingway has always been my number one author, but I had not read this book until recently. The descriptions are uncanny. Everything from the Cafes to the Spanish sunsets are permanently embedded in my mind. I have never been to Spain or Paris, but after reading this book I feel like I lived right there with Jacob Barnes, Brett Ashley, and Robert Cohn for several years. God bless the expatriate, World War I authors and their books.

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Summary: Captures the essence of existentialism
Review: Through his narrator Jack Barnes and his heroine Brett Ashley, Hemingway succinctly describes the existentialist approach to life. Hemingway's characters have no god, so each must come to his or her own conclusions about right and wrong. The beginning of the book is not nearly as interesting as the end.