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The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

'A Farewell to Arms' is a good place to start. Then follow with 'The Sun Also Rises'. Don't read 'For Whom the Bells Toll' until you're used to Hemingway's style.

Old Man and The Sea

Really? No one should start with Old man and the Sea

>>653526
>>653527

The first one, a logical place to start. But i might only read one and so im wondering if The sun also Rises is the one to read.

The Sun Also Rises. A Farewell To Arms is so fucking dry it's hard to read.

>>653538
It is. Everyone knows it's his best

>>653536

Why not?

It's a quick read that will get you acquainted with his style.

It's what I started with and I love Hemingway.

>>653538
Well it's relatively short, so if you don't like it you'll get through it quickly.

>>653532
Really? I'm reading FWtBT right now (just got to chapter 12) and I'm enjoying it quite a bit.
Although all the 'Ingles'-stuff can become quite a drag.
I've thought of putting it away for a little while and read something completely different, after which I'll get back to it again.

>>653532
Why is that? first thing I read by Hemingway was For Whom the Bell Toll and I liked it a lot despite its style.

Should I go with The Sun Also Rises now?
Then followed by A Farewell... and then The Old Man and the Sea?

Okey, thank you /lit/. ill start with The sun also rises.

Don't read Hemingway. He's terrible. They should call him Ernest Desert. Because he's so dry. Reading is already boring, don't double your punishment by reading a boring writer.

Btw, a couple of days ago I posted that the style of FWtBT was sort of driving me insane, specially the dialogues.
Some guy replied that the dialogues were intended to show Robert Jordan's romantic view about the guerrilleros.

After finishing the book and giving it a second thought, there's a little bit of embellishment as that guy said, but most of the phrases just happen to be complete transliterations abundant in false friends.

I guess I would've enjoyed the book a lot more if Spanish wasn't my first language.

>>653561

Why the fuck would you be on this board you cunting fuck?

>>653604
Because I like books, idiot.

>>653618
If you don't love Hemingway, then you don't love books. Sorry, but it's true

Throwing out The Sun Also Rises.

That was the sshhhiiittt.

>>653642
What a coincidence, I'm also throwing it out because it was shit.

>>653633
Then it sure is a good thing I said I like them, isn't it? Also; you should explain to me why love for Hemingway is a prerequisite for bibliophilia.

>>653633
Meh. I got bored halfway through For Whom the Bell Tolls and put it down.
It didn't seem to be getting anywhere. I only kept with it because I have a passion for the 2nd person singular/personal pronoun.

>>653593
It's true, a lot of the Spanish is extremeley literal and translates false cognates (false friends, as you say) naively. The book is really intended for an American audience about to enter WW2. Jordan is definitely meant to interpret the world around him with admiration, mystery, and nobility: he joins the civil war because he idealizes the fighters, Old Spain, the language, the Gypsies, etc. He's not meant to just fit in, he's a visitor in a world he doesn't fully understand.

>>653645

Yeah, yeah, yeah.