The Sun Also Rises: Ernest Hemingway

4 Responses to The Sun Also Rises: Ernest Hemingway

1. Mr Black says:

   February 23, 2014 at 4:43 pm

   This book makes one realise that being awarded the Nobel prize for literature does not mean that you are by any means in the same league as other laureates e.g. Elias Canetti.

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2. Mr Orange says:

   February 24, 2014 at 2:56 pm

   Unless you are an impressionable 12-year old who has not read F. Scott Fitzgerald, this isn’t worth the effort. Some nice ideas and a few memorable characters (Lady Brett Ashley) don’t make up for his slapdash prose.

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3. Mr Red says:

   March 17, 2014 at 9:02 pm

   Where is Hemingway’s much-vaunted style? Someone said that it’s the gaps between his words that count. For me, it’s the words that matter, and there were too few of them. The style is just basic, characters poorly drawn, action tedious, scene-setting unmemorable. A huge disappointment.

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4. Mr Blue says:

   August 11, 2014 at 2:37 pm

   Dreary accounts of bar hopping in Paris, followed by uninspiring descriptions of a Fiesta in Spain and the shallow relationships of a handful of protagonists. Like an overlong and poorly told anecdote that ‘you had to be there’ to find interesting. Worse, it is not bad enough to give up on altogether, but compels the reader finish the book just in case something actually happens.

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