Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
Well I like to read a Hemingway text when I travel and was in key west! It was a vulgar read with dated language. Not my fav Hemmingway read.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
You couldn't pay me to care about this novel, but I could use the money if anyone wants to try and change my mind! Hemingway is not for me, I think, I hated this and I don't think I've come across a work of his yet that I've actually enjoyed.
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I enjoyed this- in large part because it of the Hemingway novels I have read, it seemed most akin to the way people think and talk about Hemingway today. Very macho, man vs. man, man vs. world. I read The Sun Also Rises a year or so ago and in many ways, To Have felt like an apology for the privileged sulking of that book. Harry Morgan, the protagonist, has very real problems as do most of the other characters trying to make their way in the Depression. But then he also shows that the rich aren't so happy either- no win, I suppose. It's more 3.5 but I had to round down given the bleak world view.
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
http://livrespourvivre.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/to-have-and-have-not-by-ernest-hemingway/
Only gave it a three because I liked it better than The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms. Maybe you have to be male to appreciate this macho, gratuitous violence stuff. I can't really relate with any of the characters.