The Old Man and The Sea

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Summary: Required Reading is Boring
Review: The Old Man and the Sea is one of the worst books I have ever been required to read. The first chapter put me to sleep. I found the fishing examples and language hard to follow since I have no interest in fish. The one thing that I found interesting about the book is the way Ernest Hemmingway wrote it as a reflection of his life. Hemmingway, like the old man, had not had much success for a while in his career. The entire story is left free to interpret it how you wish. Fatalism takes place when the shark eats the fish, Endurance takes place when on page 64 it says "He was comfortable but not suffering, although he did not admit the suffering at all." This book is considered to be one of Hemmingway's greatest books. With this stated I might venture to read one of his books again but not for a while. I think that this book would be far more appreciated by someone who is into deep thinking. Myself...I like the point of the story cleary stated.

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Summary: Alright, not worth reading a second time however
Review: True, Hemingway is a classic writer of the time (even though I don't agree with his ethical or otherwise standards of living), but I think that this book could have been summed up in about a total of about 10 pages. Even though it gives many lessons in symbolism, it was reallly quite boring, and I don't see why we had to read it. The book was really quite boring on the whole, even though it is a classic of the time, I don't think that I would reccomend it to anyone as a fun book to read.

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Summary: Overall a good book but too lengthy for such a simple topic.
Review: "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway was an overall good book. I would not want to read this book in my free time, because it isn't very exciting, but considering it's a book I had to read for school, it's not too bad. The only drawback of it is that it is too lengthy. The same thing could have been written in half as many words and portrayed the same idea. Because the book drags on for a long time about the same idea, it starts to lose the readers interest. If it were shortened by about 50-70 pages, it would be a lot better book.

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Summary: A Book... What's there to say?
Review: The Old Man and the Sea is a story about an old man named Santiago and his love for the sea. It showed his satisfaction for conquering his goal, however there was nothing to show of it but bones. But..... this book was also kinda long... even though it was only one hundred something pages, it should have been about 35, without such drawn out descriptions, and still pass for a "classic"

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Summary: I think this book was very boring!!!
Review: I'm in 11th grade english right now and we just finished reading this book , and it just made me fall in sleep in class and when I read it on my time I just don't even want to read it, because it is so boring, the begining was o.k but then when he's cut the fish and goes for days ,it just gets boring!!!

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Summary: BORING
Review: I found this book incredibly boring. Even after I read the other people's comments I found a day of my Christmas vacation wasted and i wish I had never read it.

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Summary: A man, a fish, and a boy
Review: Hemingway's last (good) book is far better than "The Sun Also Rises". Forget Jake Barnes, Lady Brett, and all the booze they guzzle. Leave behind Robert Cohn with his mistress who "led him quite a life." Start reading about a man, a fish, and a boy, and how the man deals with the fish, the boy, and the long life he has lived. The "Hemingway style" of short, declarative sentences works much much better in describing Santiago's thoughts and the lovely world of the sea than it does in "The Sun Also Rises," which is essentially a failed excursion into F. Scott Fitzgerald's territory.

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Summary: Wow! Absolutely captivating!
Review: This book is brilliant! Although it is not action packed, (if you still need that you should be reading Famous Five) it grips you from cover to cover, even though that is quite a short distance in this case. Oh. And whoever that is from Ca US, I read this when I was 10 and loved it!

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Summary: One of the Worst Books I Have Ever Read
Review: This was one of the worst books that I have ever read. I was forced to read it in an English assignment. It is 90 percent endless blabber about unnecessary and unwanted detail. Many call this one of the greatest books ever written by Ernest Hemingway. I can say that thanks to this book I will probably never read another Ernest Hemingway novel again. Filled with unending blabber the book is really pointless. There is no lesson to be learned, it is not exciting, funny, dramatic or moving. I would not recommend this book at all, unless you were someone who wanted to waste a few hours of their life. Overall this book never did anything to make me fell that it was a good book.

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Summary: It wasn't that good
Review: The book THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA was a short novel. To tell you the truth that is about the only thing I find good about it. The many allegories and ways to interpret it left me completly confused. The over all theme was a cute idea, an old man and the love for the sea and the boy, but I think it could have been written in a better way. Like I said it was short which is a definate plus when it comes to required reading. Maybe if I could relate to the book or the story line I would have enjoyed it more. Maybe I'll like it better when I am older.