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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-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
Hemingway's writing is beautiful. There is not much of a plot here, but I didn't care. I was moved. As with the Old Man, I really connected with the characters, I felt "there", part of the action. I can't help but see a strong connection between Hemingway and McCarthy's writing. I'm sure he was a huge influence.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
everyone's miserable and so was i
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Five things I learned from this book:
1. Bullfighter aficionados were basically the hipsters of twentieth century Spain.
2. For some reason, being an aristocratic, unattainable A+ biatch makes you the object of every man's affections (even handsome matadors fifteen years your junior).
3. This book is simply swell.
4. Spain sucks. Except for bullfighting. Bullfighting is awesome. But seriously man, it sucks. Let's get drunk.
5. ... did I mention this book was swell? I can't be sure, I was so tight from all the absinthe.
1. Bullfighter aficionados were basically the hipsters of twentieth century Spain.
2. For some reason, being an aristocratic, unattainable A+ biatch makes you the object of every man's affections (even handsome matadors fifteen years your junior).
3. This book is simply swell.
4. Spain sucks. Except for bullfighting. Bullfighting is awesome. But seriously man, it sucks. Let's get drunk.
5. ... did I mention this book was swell? I can't be sure, I was so tight from all the absinthe.
Drunk people talking about nothing. I couldn’t get into it.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
You know what’s the trouble with you? You’re an expatriate. One of the worst type. Haven’t you heard that? Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
I re-read this for the first time since high school. Characters are constantly drunk and belligerent, arguing over a girl who is just as annoying. There is a fiesta. Bullfights and fights occur. Jake Barnes has a lot of ruminating thoughts. Sometimes they are interesting and sometimes they aren’t. The style is laconic but still manages to bore me to tears. Last part gets a little more interesting but then abruptly ends. Oh well, I am glad to be done. I agree with my past self: this book is a dud, despite the interesting subject matter and environs described. One star for the barest sympathies of what the Lost Generation was like, and half a star for the brevity of the book. Minus a million stars for my utter boredom and desire to DNF, were it not for the book count and a book club prompt. This book may have been exciting and groundbreaking once, but that time has passed.
‘Favorite’ quotes:
※ ‘“Everybody behaves badly,” I said.’
※ ‘There was a waiter sitting at one of the tables with his head in his hands.’
※ ‘It was beginning to get dark. The fiesta was going on. I began to feel drunk but I did not feel any better.’