michaelontheplanet 's review for:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
3.0

Gun cupboard love: I find Hemingway a challenge with his macho, huntin’ shootin’ fishin’ image and a vague uneasy feeling that he’s a poster boy for preppers and vigilantes everywhere (but mainly in America). Rather a surprise then at this first dip into the Ernest world that it’s a tender love story as much as a meditation on the theme that man who is of woman born has but a short time to live. I don’t fancy the bullfighting much but maybe should give him another go. Anyone who can quote Westron Wynd in a modern setting can’t be just muscles and gum-chewing.