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Summary: Hemingway's style makes A Farewell To Arms great.
Review: A Farewell To Arms is an excellent book. Hemingway kept me interested in a story about love and war, two things I usually don't like to read about, because of the style he uses. He is able to describe scenery and events using a minimalist style which creates a story that doesn't stumble over it's own descriptive language as many other books do.
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Summary: this book was very poor in its writing style and content
Review: A Farewell to Arms was a weak structure of a book. I disliked the short sentences and choppy phrases. This resulted in a lack of fluid ideas and recognizable thoughts. The storyline was also void of any feeling or substance.
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Summary: Very Good, Hemingway
Review: This book was very good, however I felt the action of the book dragged on putting the reader to sleep. The story would have been better had it been shorter....I do give Hemingway a very strong credit though! The overall stroy was excellent!
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Summary: Hemingway's best novel (so far)
Review: As Heminway is an aficionado of bullfighting, I am an aficionado of his novels. With great prose and a stunning, beautiful storyline, Hemingway's portrayal of love, war, and ironic tragedy touched me. I picked up the novel on Sunday and immediately lost track of the time. A few hours later, I was speechless. This book exceeds all other of Hemingway's works I have read, and has made me very anxious to read his greatest novel ever. I have high hopes For Whom the Bell Tolls will surpass this.
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Summary: Learn
Review: The best literature will make you realise your humanity.
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Summary: A great Naturalist
Review: Hemingway sets a mood nonpareil in 20th Century literature in the first paragraph of this novel: "In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders...water was clear and swiftly moving in the channels...and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves." The first chapter of FTA sets a mood of doom that pervades the rest of the novel. I have a real problem with Hemingway's metaphysical musings (the world breaks you, et. al.), but for clarity and objectivity in prose, Hemingway stands as a giant in literature. This is a great book, abeit a supremely depressing read. Read it for the style, not the substance.
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Summary: Read It After You Graduate
Review: When I read this book, I was working on an ambulance, and my signifigant other is a nurse. It made the story that much more vivid. On a less personal note, I found Hemingway's prose to be beautiful, and his story is just wonderful. Unfortunately, he did foreshadow the ending a bit (I won't ruin it for those of you who skipped the encyclopedia entry above), but this may have quickened the pace of my reading a bit. Read this when there is no grade attached to it, and enjoy every word!
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Summary: Excellent, need I say more
Review: This is the best book that I have ever read. Hemingway is a brilliant author who is able to touch the lives of many with his words. I found the characters to be excellent and the descriptions of the places excellent. I foubnd myself lost in this book.
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Summary: Classic book and that is why it is critically reviewed
Review: If I were to try a terse approach similar to Hemingway's prose I would write that this book is a classic story about love and war. Indeed, it is a page turner and one could assume that it influenced THE ENGLISH PATIENT in some small way. Hemingway takes the reader on a journey and along the way he familiarizes them with the horror of war and the beauty of love. Hemingway transports the reader to Italy and to the depths of his mind in this very personal story. Scenes from the book leave life long impressions. For example, the random massacre of soldiers leaves an indelible etching in the readers mind. Scenes from the hospital remind the reader of what it is like to fall in love. While Hemingway is much maligned, it is not always for good reason. This book certainly proves that he can write really well. Machismo or not, this book is a classic and that is why it is critically reviewed. Each sentence is picked apart, and while this slows down the beauty of Hemingway's prose, it does provide insight into a fabulous book. Enjoy. It is hard to imagine someone not enjoying this beautiful piece of fiction.
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Summary: What happened?
Review: As a Hemingway fan, imagine my surprise when I couldn't make it through this book. The characters were so completely unsympathetic that even Hemingway's writing couldn't save it.
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