A review by jeffphilly
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I finished this book althought I seriously struggled through it.  This is Hemingway's historical fiction novel about the Spanish Civil War.  The book just never drew me in the way that some books have in the past. I really had a hard time getting through it.  Perhaps that is the case because coming into it I knew next to nothing about the Spanish Civil War.  The only thiiing related to it of which I was aware of for certain was Picasso's well known panting "Guernica".  I had long heard of this book as being one of Hemingway's more well known books, however it just didn't do anything for me