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To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

11 reviews

dscobbie's review

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adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

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catmisae's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Let me put it this way: I fell asleep for an entire chapter while listening to the audio book and when I went back to replay what I missed I concluded that I probably didn’t need to waste my time. Yes, yes you made some guys mad and someone got shot on the high seas we get it. The pattern has already been established.

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greenjem's review against another edition

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adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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saskia_jnm's review against another edition

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Yikes. Awful main character and brimming with dehumanising racism. The back-cover blurb for this book is so off the mark it's shocking - it promised the reader "a sense of freshness and exhilaration" and describes the main character as "Hemingway's hardest hero". No no no. Just yuck. Not spending anymore time on this.

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kendallsuckss's review

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Too many n words

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rossiell's review

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dark reflective tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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askxtine's review

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dark sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Ugh. Excessive use of the N-word and other racial slurs. Super violent. I'm struggling to find something I liked about this book. I'm sure in 1930 this book was a revelation - fast, dialog heavy writing style, politics of the time, struggles of the poor. But, ugh. It was ugh from start to finish. Uncomfortable to read for first 2/3rds, then long winded stream of consciousness at the end. I didn't like a single character.

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helencantero's review

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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labbyreads's review

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dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

When in Key West it only feels fitting to spend some time reading Hemingway.

Definitely not his best work I still enjoyed the vignettes of the people living in Key West which were poignant and colored. The biggest downside was that you could easily tell, that these were three different stories.

Overall, this was middle of the road for me but I enjoyed reading it.

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cdd727's review

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dark medium-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

2.0

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