dan_ronan 's review for:

5.0

There are chapters of this book that sound like an older man who has perfectly captured his exciting times living in Paris as a young man.

And there are chapters in this book that sound like a young man who has perfectly captured the exciting times living in Paris as he is living them.

I'm not sure which is better. I read some Hemingway in high school. I can't say that he, or F. Scott Fitzgerald really took hold of me, certainly not as much as Kurt Vonnegut did at that time. I remember the act of reading A Farewell to Arms and The Great Gatsby, but I don't really remember anything about them besides being a bit confused. This book has certainly left me excited and nervous to read The Sun Also Rises, which has been sitting next to my bed for the last week.

I can tell I love a book when it leaves me wanting to write a not so subtle longer version.