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Summary: Bittersweet
Review: Words fail me when I try to describe the heart wrenching irony of this masterpiece. Thank the Gods we had the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald to paint feelings with words and spin tales that leave us fuller for having read them.
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Summary: La Fiesta
Review: I was recommended this book because I had experienced the Fiesta de San Fermin in Pamplona myself. And there's no doubt, Hemingway really captured the experience. Hemingway is a master craftsman, an innovator, a wonderful wordsmith. He can create an entire scene in your mind or make your mouth water just in his short little sentences. His terse prose conveys perfectly the daze in which the "Lost Generation" lived But to be perfectly honest, all that being said, nothing much happens in this book. This may be the point. In fact, I'm sure it is, being that he wants to convey a group of people with empty lives. And I'm sure the book will go down in literary history as a great work. But I couldn't give The Sun Also Rises the highest ranking, because quite simply, there are books that are more fun to read. Books that you don't simply appreciate, like I did this one, but books that you leave and breathe, becoming completely absorbed into the world and events that the author has created. For all its merits, and there are many, The Sun Also Rises was a book that I COULD put down.
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Summary: Not bad. At all.
Review: Ever lived abroad and had literary ambitions? Read this book, and it'll make you feel even more depressed. And also great. It'll make you smile the way a great sad book does. Ah, hell, read it anyway - it's the best book on WWI and what it did to those who survived the senseless slaughter, and it'll make you want to read For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read!
Review: I just loved the attitude in this book. The way these people looked on love. They did't let it suffocate them, it came as something natural. Like breathing. Life might have been hard, but they didn't let it bother them. And yet there was nothing brave or heroic in them. That came naturally as well.
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Summary: A story that could be told today
Review: The Sun Also Rises is a story chock full of rich and complex characters. Papa gives us a broad view of desires, heartache, apathy, alcohol, bullfights, and Spain and France from the view of British and American expatriates. The most brilliant aspect of this novel is that everyone has experienced some of the emotions, thoughts, and situations in this book. -Dana Epperson
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: THE SUN ALSO RISES is one of my favorite books, and easily Hemingway's best (he thought so, too). One thing RISES has that Hemingway's later novels didn't is personality. Hemingway's later novels were very dry in tone (and I love them), and the characters spoke with verbal sterility (Richard Ford wrote that Hemingway's characters sound somewhat like robots. This description could in no way apply to RISES' characters). THE SUN ALSO RISES has humor and life, and the best dialogue I've ever read. I've read parts of RISES countless times. It's been knocked for being a collection of vignettes, and not strong on plot (and I don't consider "plot" a sin like some literary snobs do). But the vignettes (that do serve the story) are so beautifully crafted, they are a pure pleasure to read. There are two books I've read where, in parts, I wish I could have stepped inside the books and lived what was happening. WAR AND PEACE is one. THE SUN ALSO RISES is the other.
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Summary: A desert island book...
Review: The last dialogue between Jake and Brett ("we could have been so happy together" "Yes, isn't it nice to think so?") is one of the most moving passages I've ever read. It always leaves me heartbroken and also amazed at Hemingway's genius to suggest a world of feelings and emotions in a few well-chosen words. But you have to read the whole book to measure the intensity of this amazing dialogue.
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Summary: Just A Note...
Review: The Sun Also Rises is indeed an amazing novel and I'll leave it at that. I would like to point out to a few of the "reviewers" who have waxed poetic about "the lost generation" quote that maybe they should read An Immovable Feast to get the history (Hemingway's version) of this overused label. You might not find it so metaphoric. Also, this novel was during Hemingways slice of life period. Many of his companions were leary of mentioning stories in front of him for they would be incorporated into whatever he was working on at the time. The story of Robert Cohen and the trip from Paris to Spain were real events, Bill was based on Robert Benchly and another cohort, and the reason Jake is impotent is because Hemingway was married at the time (Pretty deep, huh). Anyway- Strip off the psudosymbolic layers and take the story for a story. You'll find the soul without the searching.
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Summary: A good example of Hemingway
Review: Though not as compelling as "for whom the bell tolls" or "A farewell to arms" and not as well planed as "across the river and into the trees," this book represents a good begining point for understanding one of the great literary minds of the twentieth century. As Hemingway explores both what humans have lost (after the great war)and what they seek to gain. A poignant story that paints the shape of life as old Ernest envisions it. Not bad for one of his very first works.
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Summary: The best war book ever written...
Review: This is, undoubtefully, the best war book ever written in Modern Literature... although there's no war scenes in it! It's the best because it shows how a war affects indivudual lives of ordinary human beings. Especially if we keep in mind the context in which the novel was written: a post-world-war-I era, in which the characters are looking for something they lost and will never find again: their souls.
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