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A review by bexterrr
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3.0
I'm tempted to give it only 2/5 but I think I can appreciate what some people see in the book. It was my first Hemingway and I'm not that familiar with classic American lit.
There's really not much to say. Reading it was a chore. Some of the language was repetitive and it was about a subject that I'm not very interested in. Ultimately I think it was an interesting idea and I really can imagine it being someone's cup of tea. It just personally wasn't mine. I would only fault it on some of the repetitive language and maybe it could have had deeper undercurrents. I feel like there was a message in it that I just wasn't getting. Besides old age and determination.
There's really not much to say. Reading it was a chore. Some of the language was repetitive and it was about a subject that I'm not very interested in. Ultimately I think it was an interesting idea and I really can imagine it being someone's cup of tea. It just personally wasn't mine. I would only fault it on some of the repetitive language and maybe it could have had deeper undercurrents. I feel like there was a message in it that I just wasn't getting. Besides old age and determination.