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3.49 AVERAGE

medium-paced
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DID NOT FINISH

oh this was a snoozefest
adventurous emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 "You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch."
 "Yes."
 "It's sort of what we have instead of God." (p. 249)
adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
medium-paced

There is a cadence to Hemingway's writing that makes it oddly satisfying, even when the plot is lacking. But this book is so bad that it's not enough for me. There really is no point to this book. It's just drunk people being annoying, repetitive, misogynistic, and antisemitic. And everything is boring except bullfighting, and everyone is tight. That's it. That's the book.

challenging reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A deceptively simple book about drinking and frivolity presenting the various ways people responded to the collective trauma of The Great War. 

nie zestarzało się zbyt dobrze

literatura opisowa, miałam wrażenie, że fabuła nie zmierza do żadnego punktu, puenty, ale nie przeszkadzało to jakoś bardzo.

głównie to po prostu było nudne, bohaterowie niezbyt ciekawi i bardzo dużo temu brakowało.

myślę, że jeżeli ktoś jest wielkim fanem hemingwaya i lubi analizować uważnie jego dzieła, to mu się spodoba.

lepsze niż 'stary czlowiek i morze', ale wciąż niewystarczająco dobre, żebym się mogła z hemingway'em zaprzyjaźnić.

nie było złe, tak myślę, po prostu nie dla mnie

2/5