/lit/ - Literature

never cried because im not a woman but this got me kind of sad

Was this book just anti-fascist propaganda?

>tfw you will never be a republican guerilla operating in the spanish mountains with your qt traumatized native waifu
H-hold me bros

where can i go fight and die in an idealistic war today?

pic related is basically 400 pages of a man trying to come to grips with imminent violent death.

>me cago en tu leche

I'm almost done with this book and I am really enjoying it. The only parts that I don't like as much are the sequences between Robert Jordan and Maria. It doesn't seem realistic for a woman to go through so much trauma and quickly recover enough to fall in love so quickly. I don't know that much about ptsd but it just seems to fast to just fall so deeply in love with someone you don't know. Robert Jordan's love of her seems naive and unrealistic as well, and as somebody who has rushed too quickly into a serious relationship I found myself strangely wary about the puppy love between Robert and Maria.

I understand the value of their relationship in the context of the story and its themes. He might live the rest of his life in those three days. He "marries" Maria and lives a short life with her.

What did other people like and dislike about the book? I think I would like to read more Hemingway, what would /lit/ suggest I read next? Is there any author with similar subject matter or style who is better?