A review by moo6789
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

1.0

It's more 1 1/2 than one star. For me, it already didn't start out strong. It felt like Tony Montana sat low in his armchair right across from me, with a glass of whiskey in his hand and is telling me a story, that I don't want to hear, just because I asked him a simple question. I don't know if someone understands, what I mean by that, but that is how I feel. I think, if you liked "Scarface", or similar movies and books, you will probably like this one, but for both things, I feel the same: Hated, or had no strong feeling for the beginning, the middle was too long, sort of liked the almost ending and the ending itself was so boring, that I just wasn't paying attention anymore. And also the book was too macho for me to enjoy it. Especially the women's perspectives were not bearable.
I was happy when it ended, and I have to take a long break, before reading another of Hemingways novels, if I will even be able to bring myself to do it.