OLD MAN AND THE SEA

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Summary: Hemingway at his best!
Review: This book was great. From Santiago's conversation with his hand (the hand didn't talk) from the shark attacks this book is great!

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Summary: Different Opinion
Review: I have mixed feelings about the book "The Old Man and the Sea". I feel it has an interesting description of a man catching a fish, but it's hard to believe Ernest Hemmingway could write an entire book about one topic - fishing! If this book was not required for me to read for my English class, I would not have read it. To read Ernest Hemmingway's books, you have to "read into" everything, which was challenging at times. For people like me, who do not fish and do not love the hobby, it was hard to keep reading the book.

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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!