The Old Man and The Sea

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Summary: This book was sortive kinky and cool at the same time!
Review: I think this book should be read by everyone that likes a bit of kinkyness and coolness mixed togeather.If you do read this book you must try to watch the movie when your done.If I had to read this book again I probably would understand more of the emotional parts.If you like books with adventure this book is the one!

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Summary: On edge-cant put it down
Review: it is a pretty good book. it was kinda boring though. Basically it is about a fisherman who catches a marlin and about his struggles

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Summary: This book was boring.
Review: I read the old man at the sea. It wasn't a bad book; it was about this oldman at sea. He hasn't caught a fish in eighty-seven days. Then one day he goes out to sea, but he decides to go farther then usually. So he is fishing and he caught a good size fish but it's not good to eat. So he put that on the line and after awhile he gets a bit. Then finally the fish take the bate. It a big fish because it is pulling the boat. this goes on for days. It been about three days and old man is getting and he knows that the fish is getting tried because it going with the current. He finally caught the fish it is bigger then the boat. Then when he is taking it home the fish is bleeding and it starts to be attracted by sharks. The old man fought them off but they end up getting a bit. Then on the way home keep saying that he shouldn't have gone so far out. He also apologizes to the fish for that. Then when he gets home is nothing left of the fish. The old man is disoponeted and goes to bed. The other Fishermen are amazed of the size of the fish, and the old man lets them have of the bones they want.

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Summary: and the moral of this story is...
Review: The story was very simply written almost like almost like a story from Aesop. If this were a fable then I would say that the moral would be about loyalty, from begging to end. The boy shows so much loyalty towards the old man by helping every morning before they go out on their own separate boats. When they come in for the evening the boy waited on the old man and fixed him supper even though everyone in the town thinks it unlucky to be around the old man. The old man shows much respect towards the fish by bringing him in even after the marlin has been almost completely devoured circling sharks. The towns people show their respect to the old man by hanging the marlin skeleton by the docks for every to see.

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Summary: triggers the mind into exploring new ideas
Review: one must understand when reading this novel that is not what ernest hemingway writes, using a fisherman as his muse, but rather the underline meaning within that muse using the symboles that creats mystery and intregues the mind. I found myself combing the novel trying to find the story within the story, so to speak. The way each person is able to see something different and each word is left open to interpritation.

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Summary: It is wasting time to read this book
Review: There is nothing in this book, but the author could write more than 100 pages to tell you nothing.

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Summary: A must read
Review: To read this book and come away with simply a story of fishing is mocking the true story line and Hemingway himself. The story reaches the depths of the human experience of lonliness, survival, and courage. The old man is a wonderful character with qualities of a hero.

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Summary: A magnificent work
Review: I have read this book twice in my life. Thirty years ago it was a fishing tale. Today it is a moving parable of human existence.

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Summary: One of the masterpieces of our century
Review: This book proves Hemingway to be not only one of the greatest novelists of the past century, but also one of the greatest philosophers. This is the capstone to his brilliant career. Besides being eloquently written in Hemingway's concise, true sentences, it is the embodyment of a lifetime of thought on the human existance. Please do not attempt to read this work if you are a simple-minded person who is too afraid to pull your head out of the sand and examine the nature of the human experience. If you do, you will probably end up saying absurd things such as, "I thought it was boring. It was all about fishing." It would truly hurt me personaly to see such a waste of a cultural treasure on such a mindless individual.

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Summary: This book has no storyline.
Review: Philip Pullman, my favorite author, once said that a lot of novels get so wrapped up in showing off beautiful writing that there's no story, and the story really should be the most important thing. I agree with him. This book seems like just an excuse for the author to explain his view of the world, and life, &c, &c., and the author forgets to put an interesting story in it. Luckily it doesn't get too boring because it's short. I also hate fishing, and I hated the author's writing style, which sounds like it's trying so hard to be simple and profound. The author also sounds snobbish and superior at times, and at other times like he's trying to show you, look at this character I've created, isn't he wonderful. For a novel with deep things to say and beautiful writing AND a great story, try Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass.