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Liked It “Forget the 'poignant symbolism.' The hero of this story, moreso than Jake Barnes & his band of war-jaded travellers, is the language. Hemingway pulls off in 200-some pages what some of the so-called "heavyweights of literature" can't do in a thousand or more. His use of the word "good" is the...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It“I just cannot get into most of Hemingway's works. The Sun Also Rises has some wonderful mood and conversation, but it is very hard for me to read without falling asleep.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Forget the 'poignant symbolism.' The hero of this story, moreso than Jake Barnes & his band of war-jaded travellers, is the language. Hemingway pulls off in 200-some pages what some of the so-called "heavyweights of literature" can't do in a thousand or more. His use of the word "good" is the sire of countless language theses, and rightly so. This is a young (his 2nd novel, written in his early 20s) master riffing on the Language in a way that hadn't yet been done and would be imitated to this day. Oh yeah, it's a phenomenal story, too. The last great reinvention of the novel as high art.”
skodt wrote this review Tuesday, July 1 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Hemingway at his best, and in my view, no one does it better. He developes his characters so that, while we may not admire them all, they are good examples of the "lost generation". He draws his people so that we can understand why they are lost, but, at the same time, enjoy their complications. Robert P.”
Robert P wrote this review Friday, June 13 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I just cannot get into most of Hemingway's works. The Sun Also Rises has some wonderful mood and conversation, but it is very hard for me to read without falling asleep.”
Joshua B wrote this review Thursday, February 14 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Hemmingway's best book , written in 1926 about Americans romp in Pamplona Spain......but about so much more than that. It will be pretty hard to surpass Hemmingway's sparse, direct, All American writting style. ”
CowMonk wrote this review Saturday, October 27 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I learned so much about great writing from reading this book. It has direction and there is no hand on the rudder. It has love--deep true love--without consumation. It shows the party going on beneath the executioner's platform with compassion and simplicity.”
benstolemyname wrote this review Sunday, August 12 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Again Hemingway's women never become much more than cardboard backdrops, and the general malaise of the expatriates in Spain becomes rather boring after awhile, but still well written and speaks to a generation of lost and confused people. Much like ours. Or maybe that's more of a personal feeling, but I think it's a timeless story, but like I've said before I've never been much for Hemingway's Machismo and Mysoginism.”
joverbroody wrote this review Sunday, August 5 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
