emilykatereads 's review for:

To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

4.0

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I definitely really liked this book; despite going into it being critical as it is supposedly Hemingway's "worst book," I enjoyed it. It wasn't the best, for sure, but I enjoyed how Hemingway experimented. What could've made it more enjoyable, for me, was for the storytelling to be less erratic. At times I was somewhat confused when it would switch perspectives and characters throughout the novel. However, as the book was initially written to be different short stories, I can deal with it being choppy as a novel since it wasn't intended to flow all together anyway.