OLD MAN AND THE SEA

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Summary: Short and Slow
Review: If the reader's looking for an adventurous and suspenseful book, then steer away from Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea! It is very slow and short. It starts off with Santiago saying his 85th day of fishing will bring in the mother of all fish. When he finally catches the Marlin it takes time to bring it in. This book is slow and way to short.
Because The Old Man and the Sea is so slow, is causes major boredom. For example, it takes Santiago approximately 50 pages out of the 127 page book to catch the Marlin. I think if it took a shorter time, it would keep the story moving. If there was more action and wasn't so much silly talk, it might keep the reader's eye longer. In addition, Hemingway's style of writing doesn't keep me interested. There are no points where I really feel like I want to keep reading. If there is a difficult scene, it is not clear enough and I get lost. The Old Man and the Sea is slow and takes a long time to show progress.
The Old Man and the Sea is shorter than the other books I have read. For example, this particular book is only 127 pages long. I am used to reading 300+ page books. I feel like Hemingway can't even finish the book. In addition, the reader may feel lost with the shortness. Many people can't see how they can finish the book successfully. Readers may feel like they have to read it again to understand it. I know I felt that way. The Old Man and the Sea is so short it can make people feel lost thinking "Is there really an ending?"
The Old Man and the Sea is good but not a well thought out book. It seems to be written in a hurry. It is slow to get to the point and confuses the reader. The book's shortness can leave the reader extremely lost and might even force them to read it again. I would not recommend this book to anyone who cannot understand what they read the first time. It is for more of an experienced reader. I credit anyone who can read this book successfully.

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Summary: The Old Man and the Sea
Review: The Old Man and the Sea Review

Unclear and confusing. These words describe The Old Man and the Sea. It is about an old man, Santiago, who likes to fish. He hasn't caught a fish in 84 days and is very disappointed. He goes out to sea and hooks a Marlin, but runs into trouble. This book uses unfamiliar words and it leaves you lost.
The Old Man and the Sea is unclear in the writing. For example, "Bad luck to your mother" is just one of the fragments Ernest Hemingway uses. Fragments leave the reader with an incomplete thought. An author should know not to use fragments in their writing. Authors should also know not to use unfamiliar words. For instance, Hemingway uses the Spanish word "Galanas". He doesn't give a definition or any clue of what the word might mean. A well written book shouldn't use undefined or unusual words. His writing was unclear, but the whole story was puzzling.
The overall book was confusing. For example, the ending leaves the reader lost. I wasn't able to tell what the protagonist was felling. It left the reader hanging there. In addition, The Old Man and the Sea has no adventure. I don't enjoy fishing or reading about it. Catching a fish doesn't catch my attention! The entire book was confusing and boring.
The Old Man and the Sea was unclear and confusing. It left the reader lost or -with an incomplete thought. The ending ought to be more appealing and adventurous. I would not recommend this book to someone who likes depressing, timid books, because that's what The Old Man and the Sea is.

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Summary: The Old Man and the Sea review
Review: Fishing
Spending four days at sea can be very boring; reading about it can be even worse. When I read The Old Man and the Sea I wasn't just completely bored I was also very confused and the story was unclear. The book The Old Man and the Sea is about an old man Santiago who is out at sea to catch a big fish. He hasn't caught a single fish in 84 days and he thinks today is the day. The young boy Manolin is Santiago's friend who he has known since he was five. They use to fish together but Manolin's parents said he had to go to a lucky boat. As the story gets going Santiago hooks a fish and struggles to keep it. Finally the fish jumps and he kills it. The plot was all right but it just didn't keep your interest.
Fishing, fishing, and more fishing, that is all The Old Man and the Sea is about. It doesn't keep your interest at all. For example, it rambles on and on about nothing when Santiago is talking. If the story didn't ramble on about a couple things the book would be more interesting and easier to read. It seems like Ernest Hemingway didn't have anything else to say when he keeps rambling on! Besides, the story is to slow to make you want to read more. The main point of writing a book is to make people want to read it. Well, this book does none of that. Not only do you not want to finish The Old Man and the Sea you want to throw it away while you're at it. When the reader is finished with this book they will ask themselves one question, why did I read this book? If the book isn't interesting there is no need to read it.
The worst parts of The Old Man and the Sea are the beginning and the end. For instance, the reader doesn't get any information about Santiago except he is old, poor, and friends with a young boy Manolin. If the reader knew how he became poor or how he became friends with Manolin the story may make more sense. Not knowing about the beginning of Santiago's fishing makes you wonder how he even became a fisherman. In addition, the ending makes you wonder even more than the beginning does. The ending just stops, you have a little bit of an ending but you don't know what else happens. It just leaves you clueless, you don't know what happens. In the book The Old Man and the Sea the two most important parts are missing, the beginning and the end.
The Old Man and the Sea is very confusing, unclear, and boring. It isn't interesting and the beginning and end are practically missing. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone who hates fishing or anyone who gets confused very easily because that is exactly what The Old Man and the Sea is about.

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Summary: Boring Depth of Nothingness
Review: There are many books out in the world that have been awarded for excellence. The Old Man and the Sea sadly was sung to the high heavens as Hemmingway's best work ever. I don't believe I would want to read his other books if that is the case. With a writing style so boring, The Old Man and the Sea isn't deserving of the Pulitzer Prize or even positive praise.
The plot of the story aggresses slowly with predictable outcomes. For instance the "action" in the book happens so rarely and slowly. The day spent on the skiff is prolonged so much that it seems like weeks. Since it takes so long for the events to take place, the reader loses interest. In addition to the slow action the event, if noticeable, are foreshadowed well before. Because the main events take so long to happen, they are hard to notice due to the reader's boredom. If the reader has managed to stay conscious, they are able to predict the outcome of each predicament, making the story even duller. The Old Man and the Sea does not deserve an award of any kind. The events are slow and the outcomes predictable. That makes for dull reading and an uninterested reader.
I refuse to recommend this book unless it is changed to satisfy most readers. Because the book needs to be changed, it won't be interesting until it is. The only way to make The Old Man and the Sea enjoyable is to to turn it into toilet paper and use it to wipe. The whole story, especially the ending, needs to be changed to make me read this book again. However, a small group of people might enjoy this book if it were recommended to them. People with extremely creative imaginations could actually find this book amusing. The only other person to enjoy it is a critic who was blackmailed a large sum on money to put in a good word. I have to ask myself, were the Pulitzer Prize board members... when they awarded this book, or are they just brain dead. The Old Man and the Sea doe not deserve the award and especially any praise. I'd rather be stuck looking at teen magazines the read that book ever again.
The Old Man and the Sea, as I've been saying so much, dose not deserve any praise at all. Its lack of action and content is unbearable. I do not recommend Hemmingway's "best book ever" at all and I'm sure many people support my decision. The Old Man and the Sea can be translated into, Boring Depth of Nothingness.

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Summary: A predictible read
Review: Boring ... Repetitive ... Predictable ... These are just a few words that describe Ernest Hemmingway's novel, The Old Man and the Sea. With each turn of the page, the book worsens. The plot of the book is solid, yet it is lacking the details, originality, and emotion to be a great story.
The Old Man and the Sea is just a dull tale of man vs. fate. For example, Santiago is very persistent in fishing, yet he does not catch a fish in 87 days. No matter how hard Santiago tries, he can't catch a fish. There is an obstacle in his way that he cannot overcome - fate. Furthermore, fate also stands in Santiago's way when he finally catches the fish of his dreams. After he catches the fish, problems arise that are out of his control. Even though Santiago might have deserved this fish, fate took it away from him. There are two major themes in this book - fate and luck, neither which are very kind to Santiago.
With a predictable ending and dull dialogue, The Old Man and the Sea is painful to read. For instance, the ending of the book is not only predictable, but so are the pages that lead up to it. I found myself in agony as I turned each page for I knew it would be the same repetitive dialogue. As I neared the ending, I knew what was going to happen and didn't feel a need to finish the book. In addition to the predictable ending, this book is also painful to read because of the short, choppy sentences that dominate most of the story. With this writing style that Ernest Hemmingway models, I do not see how it is possible for anyone to like this book. I would not recommend The Old Man and the Sea to anyone. This book should not have won any awards. It's too short, too simple, and just too boring.
The Old Man and the Sea is not a quality read. The only thing this book is good for is for English classes to read. I haven't read any other works of Hemmingway, and I don't plan to. I lost all interest in his writing while reading this book. The Old Man and the Sea was a waste of my time.

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Summary: The Old Man and Symbolism
Review: The Old Man and Symbolism

Ernest Hemingway wrote The Old Man and the Sea and because one of the greatest writers of his time, because of his ability to appeal to the greater minds of America. For this book he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1954. Most people know how great the book is, but only because of his awards for it. The book left some readers confused, because you have to understand the knowledge of great writing to know how great the book is.
Hemingway is a brilliant writer, but the writings of The Old Man and The Sea are not for everyone. First of all, the average attention span of a person is 30 seconds. Some found The Old Man and the Sea to be too slow and drawn out to read. But as with most classic books, the more you read on, the more entranced you become. Secondly, Hemingway doesn't use much, if any clutter in The Old Man and The Sea. Simplicity is the key, clutter is useless jargon and it has no purpose but to make the writer look smart. Thankfully Hemingway knew the basics of good writing and ends up making it simple enough for everyone to read. Probably the most complicated word in the book is 'phosphoresant' (47) and given the context clues even complex sounding words are understandable. In the word choice sense, the book can be for everyone, because it's easy to read, but the content of the book is not something that appeals to everyone.
The book had an unusual choice of main character resolution, and way of symbolism. For example, Santiago himself says, "I am a strange old man..." (14) Santiago may seem to have more faults that qualities, but it is the endearing quality of his persistence that makes the reader so intrigued by him. Santiago is stubborn and foolish, but like everyone all he wants in life is to be happy. Also in the end, Santiago dreams of lions and places he had once been, symbolizing dreams he still has for himself. The resolution for Santiago is out of the ordinary for a book of that time, because people were still rebuilding form the depression of the 1930s. Most books of that time were to make the reader forget about their own real life troubles. An uncommon ending gives the story what it needs to symbolize life and be realistic at the same time.
The greater the age among readers, the higher percentage of people you will find that enjoyed The Old Man and The Sea. This is because, with growing age, comes a growing sense of reality, and how life around us really is. The book leaves the reader wondering about what happened in the rest of Santiago's life. It leaves the reader wondering if that if Hemingway hadn't died, maybe he would have one day written a sequel. Like this book, life is better left unfinished at the end of the chapter. Hemingway didn't write a fairy tale, he wrote something that people can relate to, and that's what makes him a great writer.

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Summary: My The Old Man and The Sea Reveiw
Review: My Old Man and the Sea Review
I have read a lot of books over my many years on this earth, ranging from See Spot run to Hemingway's book The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway has been said to be one the greatest American writers of his time. I don't agree with this statement because I found parts of his book could have been simplified and excitement should have been added.

I found the book The Old man and The Sea to be very dull. It lacked excitement and suspense that would make a teenager reader enjoy the book. The excitement level stayed low though out the whole book. It was quite light and any moment how the sun would rise (pg 32.) Many times I found myself falling asleep. This is just one boring quote out of a whole book of them." The boy carried the hot can of coffee up to the old man's shack and sat by him until he woke (pg 123.)" This sentence isn't interesting. I have a hard time finding the point all in all I would say Ernest Hemingway didn't make this book very exciting.
Excitement is a lot easier to get across to a reader when you simplify your sentences. Simplifying is a big part of a book, shorter in some cases is better. "The myriad flecks of the plankton were annulled now by the high sun and it was only the great deep prisms in the blue water that the old man saw now with line going straight down into the water that was a mile deep (pg40.)" I found this quote to be extremely too long to keep my attention. It needs to be simplified. "He had rigged his harpoon long before and it coil of light rope was in a found basket and the end was made fast to the bit in the bow (pg87.)" Looking at this sentence and seeing how the words where placed, my attention starts to dwindle. Many sentences like this one make the reader tied. I think this story could have been shortened and more attraction packed.
As a result I have found Hemingway's book The Old Man and The Sea to not be a book I want to remember nor recommend to anyone to read under the age of 50. Many times in while reading this book I believe that it was a last desperate attempt to produce a final best seller. He may have sold a lot of books in the time that this book was released but I think now being the twenty-first century his book would flopped.

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Summary: Classic Hemingway
Review: The Old Man and The Sea is perhaps one of Ernest Hemingway's finest achievements. Here you will find the lean descriptive prose that made him one of the finest writer's of the twentieth century.

It tells the story of a fisherman who is down on his luck, but whose spirit is strong as the tropical winds that have tanned his skin and the sun that has made weak his eyes. He is devoted to the sea and knows all of its wildness and subtle moods. He goes out alone one day without his sidekick boy companion, because the boy's family has forbidden him to help his teacher for he has bad luck.

He hooks a Marlin, a huge mythical Marlin, the kind that fishermen only dream of catching. And the fish drags him out deeper and deeper into the ocean, farther than he's ever traveled. The battle is fierce and his hands are even bloodied as he ties himself to the rope and the fish in a struggle that is somehow symbolic of man's eternal quest to gain control over natural forces.

I would say more, however, Hemingway has done such a fine job that I suggest you read and read this wonderful tale. The ending is of course classic Hemingway. And it was for this book that Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Summary: Great read but sea struggle was too long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I liked this book because it was a page turner. It kept me HOOKED until the fish was hooked. The struggle between the man and the fish was too drawn out. Pages went on saying the fish dragged him and the fish dragged him for like 30 pages. Otherwise, this book was exellent,and I think everyone who reads it will enjoy it.

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Summary: A good book
Review: The Old Man and the Sea was a very good book. I like it. It's really adventurous, and the old man is funny in it. I like how he talks. It's a great book.