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Imeti ali ne

Ernest Hemingway

3.17 AVERAGE

danchrist's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is a darkly fatalistic story of Harry Morgan and his inevitably tragic ending. You see it coming and can't turn away like the gawkers on the pier as the boat is towed into the Coast Guard pier in the penultimate scene.

Yes, there are love stories here as well, but they're more window dressing to the terrible tolls the characters exact on one another and themselves. Rambling, rambunctious, and a roller coaster ride of narrative and character, I got a strong sense of Hemingway reaching for something which, knowing his fascination with Joyce and his "Ulysses" seemed to come close to a worthy tribute to the great novel especially in the closing chapters.

It's an uneven mishmash of a novel, but one which I'm glad I finally came to after reading "The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" earlier this year.

krystofsubr's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

timtom's review against another edition

2.25

fast-paced

carmenere's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoyed the storyline involving charter fisherman, Harry Morgan, but towards the middle of the story Hemingway puts him aside and instead concentrates on the tourists of Key West. Harry Morgan returns but by then the magic is gone.