librarian_wendy 's review for:

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
3.0

Not sure this stands up to the test of time. I loved it as a teenager when it all seemed adventurous, passionate, worldly, illicit... Now it just seems rather ordinary. When I was young, I appreciated Hemingway's terse style of writing. Now I wish someone had given him a thesaurus. I got tired of hearing that everything was grand and lovely. I might not have finished it had it not been for the brilliant narration of John Slattery (Mad Men).