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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
fast-paced
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
emotional
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I just made a new account here so I have to add some of my favourite books because I'm never going to be able to add every book. This is one of those amazing books that left me in an emotional spiral when I was done. The ending of the book resonated very strongly with me and similar experiences with family members. I'm generally a fan of Hemingway's "Newsreporting" style of writing, and this was just a situation where my personal experience seemed to exactly match the way the main character and those around them seemed to be acting. A constant denial of what was happening very clearly up until the final moments.
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Sexist ass book. Only gave it .25 for the jokes that arose from having to read it for school. It's basically a self-insert fanfiction (especially if you look into Hemingways life) where he gives himself a submissive girlfriend who seeks his validation in everything - spoiler! i.e. literally asking him if she's a whore when they are dating...
Slogging through "The Old Man and the Sea" in high school turned me off to Hemingway. Compared to my favorite Fitzgerald and "Gatsby," I found Hemingway's style to be the dullest of dull. His appearances in my recent reading - "The Paris Wife," "Zelda," - got me interested in revisiting him/feeling guilty that I hadn't given him a chance. "A Farewell to Arms" certainly starts off slowly, with sentences like this: "The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves." Oy vey. But as the narrator engages with others, developing meaningful and often painfully fraught relationships, and experiences absurd wartime scenarios that reminded me of its successors like "Catch-22" and "Slaughterhouse Five," I felt more and more compelled to read on. By the gripping end of the story, Mr. Hemingway had converted me.
dark
lighthearted
medium-paced
emotional
tense
medium-paced
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated