Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Book # 82 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Progress Book 11 of 100


After reading Daniel’s review of this novel I was a little intrigued. He has never mentioned wanting to punch someone before. Then we saw the preview for a film called Silver Linings Playbook. In this preview Bradly Cooper is outraged and breaks a window due to this book. With my sharp detective skills and Daniel making me promise not to skip ahead and glance at the end of the book (I’ve done that before) I knew something crazy must happen at the end. So once I finally finished The Sound And The Fury I knew this was the next book that I needed to read.


After reading The Sound and The Fury I really appreciated how this story is told in chronological order. The writing style is direct and to the point. He writes with very short sentences. I saw this in The Old Man and the Sea, but since that was such a short book- I didn’t notice it as much. It was definitely more apparent in this novel and was something that I enjoyed after my last book. I think I am becoming a Hemingway fan.


The novel is set in Italy in WWI and tell the story of an American who joins the Italian forces as an ambulance driver. He meets a woman, falls in love, is injured, recovers, and gets sent back to war, leaves and finds his love and that’s all I’ll reveal. It’s a classic tragic war love story. I definitely enjoyed the book and will give it an A 94%

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