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Summary: Review of Farewell to Arms- a fantastic and dramatic book
Review: Need I say more than, "...in the rain."
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Summary: I found nothing too thrilling about this book.
Review: If you like reading books which are straight forward and to the point, this book may be for you. What I did like about the book is that it realistically portrays war and that it is one of the first written, truthful tales of the horrors of war from the perspective of a soldier. The plot itself has all of the criteria needed to make a great novel. In its pages there is love, great action, and depth. There are many important issues which come up, especially those surrounding the senselessness of war. However, I simply did not like Hemingway's style of writing. There is very little description and the sentences are short and choppy. This makes the novel very bland. I am looking forward to seeing the screen adaptation
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Summary: Great Introduction to Classical Literature
Review: As a 14-year-old eighth grader, "A Farewell to Arms" was the first true classic I've ever read. It's the best written World War book that I have EVER found. Its powerful aura wouldn't let me stop reading. The symbolism in it was incredible. It really put the concept of life right in front of my face through sadness and devastation. I only wish Hemingway was alive for me to thank him
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Summary: To remember this story is to remember my life.
Review: When I turn out the lights, as I am wont to do in the late of the evening, I find myself to be someone else. I feel as though I am suddenly taken aside and caught in a war. Fighting not with my home country, or even for myself at times. Even when I am at my lowest, which can be quite often, I see an image of beauty that holds me right. A 'nurse' to my mind and spirit. Throughout the night my mind returns to this story of passion as depicted by Ernest Hemingway. I feel as though I were the one running away from the Italian army and seeking a quiet place to just feel the warmth of Catherine, my life. I am Henry, for A Farewell to Arms is so well layed upon my mind, I remember the story as it were my own past. May I never forget
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Summary: A must-read for women of the world.
Review: This book should be required reading for all the disassociated, confused, MTV-bred women of our time. Catherine is nothing short of the epitome of what every man wants in a woman. Of all the books I've read, this is the only one that brought me to a point of frustration and sadness I have never felt before. To be honest, the book's finale so upset me that I actually, involuntarily smashed myself in the forehead with the closed volume
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Summary: Good book, it has a few kinks but I like it
Review: I loved A FAREWELL TO ARMS, even though Hemingway's over masculine approach hurt Catherine as a character. I simply enjoyed the story a lot, Frederck and Catherine trying to escape from the war. Its was beautiful and tragic. The language used by Hemingway is very simple and easy to read. In
fact it goes very quickly. The end was simply gut renching, but foreshadowed.
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Summary: A Book of life and death
Review: Ernest Hemingway beautifully manages to take us through the ordeals a young man experiences in life. I am 14 and recently my dad past away, and as I read the book I was touched and amazed by Hemingway description of death. Especially at the end I found it impossible not to commiserate with narrator's ordeal with death.
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Summary: A quality read
Review: Many people tend to think that "A Farewell to Arms" is an American Classic. I disagree; in order to be a great American novel, a book should represent the American dream. Instead, the main character, Frederic Henry, is a soldier in Italy during WWI (actually, an ambulance driver) who does nothing the American
Armed Forces stand for. He is wounded while eating a bowl of macaroni - and receives a Medal of Valor for it - and eventually deserts his regiment in order to run off to Switzerland with his nurse.This book says a lot more than what's on its pages. Many people will toss "Farewell" aside, thinking the simplistic language will lack intellectual value. However, a book does not need big words to have substance. Hemingway creates very powerful messages and themes in the text by forcing the reader construct them himself. He supplies the reader with dialogue and actions, and assumes the reader will discover the meaning. Though not an American Classic, "Farewell to Arms" is well worth reading. A love story drives the book forward, and Hemingway effortlessly shares his insight into the life of a soldier at war.
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Summary: This book should be titled "A Farewell to Legs"....
Review: Seriously. It's his legs the main character almost has blown off, not his arms.
All right, j/k, on with the review. Honestly, though, I read this book in school and I have to say that Hemingway's style of writing is not my cup of tea. The run-on sentences with overly simple wording felt to me either not challenging enough, or just not great writing. To be perfectly honest, the only part of this book I enjoyed at all was the ending, because it was the only piece in which I felt strong emotion. The loss of Catherine, and the man's thoughts and feelings directly before it, definitely intrigued me more than anything else in the book. Perhaps it's war stories, and not necessarily the particular author, that aren't my thing. Then again, I know that I can greatly enjoy a war story, so I'm tempted to think that I'm not big on Hemingway. Either way, "A Farewell to Arms" is not exactly what I consider a literary masterpiece and was one of my less favorite reads. Therefore, I can't personally recommend it; however, it's not completely horrible and I can understand where other people would not find it boring in the least. Clearly many such readers have made it as well-known as it is.
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Summary: It has its moments, but generally disappointing
Review: I'm 14, and I had to read this for school. It was the first book by Hemingway I'd read...and probably will be the last, at least until I'm forced to read another.
I thought this book was dull in the extreme. It was full of huge passages of irrelevant small talk and pointless details. I also found the main characters, particularly Catherine, the female heroine, unconvincing as well as unlikeable.
Although I didn't really enjoy this book, I respect it, and I realise that others might find Hemingway's style easier and more enjoyable to read than I did. Just don't expect it to be one of those unputdownable passionate war novels which you remember for the rest of your life.
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