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A review by kerryvaughan
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
4.0
18. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Did everyone have to read this in high school or just me? I still had my copy.
I can tell you I liked it much more now than I did then. I can also tell you I “got it” much more than in high school. A swift choppy story about age, the fight of a lifetime and a lifetime of fight, and the unfair tragedy of losing even after you’ve won.
Adults get this. Older adults really get this. Teenagers who think they’ll live forever and defeat every foe do not get this.
I may warm to Hemingway yet. #2025books
Did everyone have to read this in high school or just me? I still had my copy.
I can tell you I liked it much more now than I did then. I can also tell you I “got it” much more than in high school. A swift choppy story about age, the fight of a lifetime and a lifetime of fight, and the unfair tragedy of losing even after you’ve won.
Adults get this. Older adults really get this. Teenagers who think they’ll live forever and defeat every foe do not get this.
I may warm to Hemingway yet. #2025books