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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
اگر بخوام صادقانه بنویسم باید بگم که من این کتاب رو بیشتر به خاطر جنگ، موضوع جنگ،اسیب های جنگی، امید و نا امیدهای این دوران و خود همینگوی دوست دارم! و این رو هم اضافه میکنم که با شخصیت کاترین نه تنها ارتباط برقرار نکردم بلکه حس خوبی هم از مرگش داشتم….
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It took me a long time to finish this book. Almost a month. And it was worth nothing. Now I realise why it took me such a long time to complete. The book gets gets painstakingly boring at times and all you ever get to read is the daily routines of several people in rotation. Hemingway lets us loose at the Italian front of the war where he is an ambulance driver and a shrapnel in the leg while you crouch to cover and hide gets you a war medal. He lets us loose and then keeps us stranded in a no-bullet land. A bullet you would be happy to take. His description is so bland in stretches that for starters you feel good about war. The alcohol, the women and a basic lack of responsibility. But then, it also makes you wonder if war can make people stripped of the emotion. Then I think about Hemingway and realise, its him at the protagonist's place. He loudly states the need of a clean prose, short sentences and a story that moves at its own pace however broken at places, though connected. The emotion has sharp edges instead of smooth ones and you would feel flabbergasted.
The priest, Catherine, the colonel, Rinaldi are all stale characters, but then hemingway never created characters. He simply replaced them with real people and the times of their lives where they simply drank and enjoyed themselves. It is not a soldier's account of war, but of an officer who has privileges that would put many people to shame. It is very evident that Hemingway wanted to write about war and not participate in it. He seems to be in a hurry to sit down and write a book.
Though the book did something simple which makes things interesting. We have all the literature available of Hemingway and after this being my first read written by him, I am drawn towards his other collection, intrigued by how he went on and ended with that fateful day in 1954.
The priest, Catherine, the colonel, Rinaldi are all stale characters, but then hemingway never created characters. He simply replaced them with real people and the times of their lives where they simply drank and enjoyed themselves. It is not a soldier's account of war, but of an officer who has privileges that would put many people to shame. It is very evident that Hemingway wanted to write about war and not participate in it. He seems to be in a hurry to sit down and write a book.
Though the book did something simple which makes things interesting. We have all the literature available of Hemingway and after this being my first read written by him, I am drawn towards his other collection, intrigued by how he went on and ended with that fateful day in 1954.
emotional
sad
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Death, War, Injury/Injury detail
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It has been a long time since I have read a book that has made me feel the way this novel did. I do not speak lightly when I say that this text will devastate you, but it is one of the most stunning works I have read. Hemingway packs this text with incredible symbols and images that will leave you shattered but that will also shape how you view the world in one of the most beautiful ways. He intersects the world of love and the world of war in an extremely depressing, poignant, existentialist, and modern way, and there's not a lot not to love about this work. I, unfortunately, am left so stunned at the end of this book that I don't have many words, but I can assure you that you will not be disappointed after reading it. I wish that I could read it again for the first time, but I know I'd have to put me through that same level of devastation again. I highly recommend this book.
Processing my thoughts, I'll put up a full review in a couple of days.
3.5 stars. I read this because of the mention in family guy and it was actually pretty good