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Somehow I fell in love with everything written by Ernest Hemingway. It probably started with a high school assignment and then press releases about his skills added to it.What I will say now is he is one author that can relate love, sex war, distress, conflict and more with one or two short but we'll placed sentences.I have had younger people ask me "what's it about"? with this and other Hemingway books. They just shake their head when I try to explain. Maybe you have to be old(er) to appreciate...
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I will never forget reading this book in freshmen English. I expected something dry because I hadn't heard good things about Hemingway's life. Instead, I read a moving story that caught me up. I was reading ahead of the class because I was so thrilled with the tension and beauty of his writing. I highly recommend this book to anyone who passed it by earlier.
Read in high school, in Russian. Loved it! Loved Hemingway, in general.
First of all, I did not read the "Sparks Notes", I read the entire unabridged book. It was the first time I had read it since college and I must say that I got a lot more out of it this time. I now was able to approach Hemingway's work from the perspective of an author, not just as another assignment to be completed in sophomore English.As I tried to do in my own novel, Henry's Pride( the American Civil War), Hemingway portrays the brutal reality of war from the viewpoint of ordinary individual
