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Summary: This book was kinda cheesy
Review: This book "A Farewell to Arms" was a on and on book. It really made no sense to me.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: This has to be one of the best books I've ever read, it's up there with "A Seperate Peace" and "To Kill a Mocking Bird". Ending was spectacular.
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Summary: Poor readers will not Enjoy Hemingway.
Review: If you are not a very good reader (as is the general public) you will not enjoy or understand Hemingways work. The best things are left unsaid. That is Hemingway's style and it is the best way to write. I know, I read a lot of books and studied them. People who are fans of todays authors will not like Hemingway because he doesn't hand you everything on a silver platter. You have to think to truly read Hemingway. People no longer like to think, they only want to be entertained. You can see this by watching television. If you are young you will most likely not like Hemingway. You simply haven't been alive long enough to understand it. What is so moving about his writting is the emotions he reveals within it. If you have not read the ending to A Farwell To Arms then you are not qualified to judge it. It is very poinant and demonstrates a love that most people may fail to understand. It is in my opinion the greatest love store written in the 20 century. His dialoge can at times be boring. This is only because it is real. He has been referred to as the master of dialoge. Was the conversation you had at work yesterday with the guy in the next cubicle all that interesting. I doubt it, but it was real. His dialoge is also dated. Remember this book was published in 1929. This book is rich and layered with many different themes. EX. The pupose of war, religion,and love, just to name a few if you don't understand it I sujest getting the Cliff Notes. They seem to be the answer to all the classics.(I'm being sarcastic)
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Summary: Touching-your-heart love story!
Review: It's a great work from Ernest Hemingway! I admire the qualities of the character are indomitable. Henry and Barkley's strong and faithful and immortal love to each other impressed me the most. This is the most touching romantic love story that i have ever read. I cried for the ending of the story, frankly. It's very touching!
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Summary: Deceptively simple writing style??
Review: I'm about two thirds through this book, and it's one of the most dissapointing reads of my life. If your introduction to Hemingway was The Old Man and the Sea, my advice to you is to read him no further, because you've read his best work.Firstly, his much touted writing style is horrible! His prose is flat, toneless, jarring, passionless and distant. Frankly I'm amazed by how he can make the most simple and childlike descriptions so turgid and painful to read! Secondly, the dialogue, as has been rightly pointed out by the more honest reviewers here, is incredibly boring and repetitive, and contrary to some opinions, totally unrealistic. Thirdly, the characters are two-dimensional and uninvolving, making it harder still to bear their awful dialogue! Just because Hemingway was spartan with his prose does not mean that he had an impressive style! Just because his style forces the reader to engage their imagination more than other, more descriptive authors does not mean he was a great writer, just a clever manipulator. To suggest that readers find his style dissapointing "because they are more used to Stephen King" is arrogance in the extreme! I find his style of writing dissapointing simply because it is bad!! All in all, I feel that Hemingway is totally overrated and undeserving of the praise the literary establishment sees fit to lavish upon him. He is, however, the perfect post-modern author!! The birth of the reader is the death of the writer, it's the reader that attaches all the symbolism and meaning, which is perfect for Hemingway, because he conveys SO LITTLE with his writing! He leaves all the work to us! What an artful con, permeated by those who suffer from The Emperors New Clothes syndrome... Wow, I really hate this book...
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Summary: Absolutely wonderful!
Review: Well, I was given this book to read for English class and I thought, "How good can this book be...it's required reading!" But I must say, I was pleasantly surprised! It's one of those books that is wonderful because of the way it was written, not so much the actual content of the story. I think Hemingway did a magnificent job portraying Henry's emotions, feelings, and struggles. My advice to you...read it!
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Summary: simply unforgetable!
Review: When I first began the book i did not expect it to leave such an everlasting impact on me. It has just got to be one of the most brilliant pieces of literature ever writen, i absolutly loved it!!! And the way Hemingway writes, its jsut so real, the conversations may seem repetetive at times but its beauty is in its simplicty of language. The love depicted between the two charachters n the way it develops is so close to real life. And its one of of those books that anyone can read, women or men , some may see it as a war book, but i thought it was one of the most beautiful love stories i have ever read. Speacially the last chapters n certain lines, are so touchin , u can almost feel thier emotions, sypathise n rejoice wth the characters. Its jsut one of those books that conintue to haunt u long after u've read em. i would highly recomend it!
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Summary: ick
Review: I'm sorry but someone actually said the CATHERINE was what women want to be like. May I starve in Somalia first. (Actually, that's hyperbole. I would rather be a stupid peice of cardboard with no taste in men than die. But only just.) This book has a grand total of two things to recommend it. One, it is required to get an A. That's a reason right there. Two, it has a vocabulary a third grader could understand, thus getting the torture over with quicker.
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Summary: An Almost Magical Writing Style
Review: Some reviewers here have been disappointed by the simple style and repetitive conversations of the book. Perhaps this is because they are more used to the Stephen King style of writing - books that tell you directly what to see, think and feel. Hemingway's characters speak the way real people do - simply and redundantly, saying little. The message they're communicating to one another isn't in the words, it's beneath them, in the moment that Hemingway is showing us. One has to adjust one's expectations to Hemingway's style of writing. That is why this book elicits "best novel ever written" reviews as well as "this guy is overrated" comments. Hemingway is underappreciated these days, if anything - his genius doesn't appeal to critics looking to use literature as an excuse to repeat well-known political viewpoints. His simple style brings events and feelings to life in a way that no other fiction writer has managed.
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Summary: Amazon gives away ending to great book.
Review: Re: The MW Encyc. of Lit. synopsis. Brilliant move. Thanks a lot
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