A review by kendramichele
The Sun Also Rises: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Ernest Hemingway

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

2.0

Hemingway is very good at what he's trying to do, capturing a generation dealing with the aftermath of a world war, characters isolating and intersecting, drifting towards some semblance of possibility and authenticity. His writing is incredibly distinctive. I just couldn't connect with the sparse, repetitive style. It isn't that I was expecting an action-packed read, or that I generally dislike novels that are more slow-paced; there's something deeply human to the aimlessness of these characters, yet it failed to deeply engage me. 

Sometimes books resonate, sometimes they don't, and for me this one simply didn't. 
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