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Sun Also Rises
Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and honor have yet to lose their currency, the novel captured for the generation that would come to be called Lost the spirit of its age, and marked Ernest Hemingway as the preeminent writer of his time.
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kspenmoll
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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According to the weather forecasters on TV, we have had only 2 full days of sun since before Christmas.I knew it‘s been a long stretch,but hearing that makes it much more real. No wonder everybody has felt so sluggish! I plan to be out in the sun today for a walk and try to get some vitamin D,my levels were so low that the doctor has given me a prescription of 10,000 vitamin D twice a week. 🔽

https://youtu.be/GKdl-GCsNJ0?si=F5_3IY7zatfQp0Go.

kspenmoll my husband son and I were up early waiting for sunrise today.Although the time for rising was 7 AM we couldn‘t see the sun until about eight because it is hidden by buildings, and we are a little higher up on a hill. We were so excited to welcome the sun! ☀️ 🌞😎#naturalitsy #litsolace #sushine (edited) 2mo
Chrissyreadit 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 I‘m thinking to increase my prescription D this month from 2x a month to weekly. 2mo
Gissy Enjoy that sun ☀️ When it is out everything looks different. Have a splendid day 2mo
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TheBookHippie It‘s beeen so so long !!!! We saw it for ten minutes yesterday we all ran outside ☀️ 2mo
kspenmoll @Gissy @TheBookHippie @Chrissyreadit I took a 2 mile walk with my neighbor- just feeling the sun on my face felt amazing….just seeing it was amazing!!! 2mo
Gissy @kspenmoll Nice!☀️😎 2mo
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GinaKButler
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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Starting next!

#bookspinbingo
#23in23

TheBookHippie Enjoy! 5mo
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Saknicole
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I found the duplicate on the shelf.

#duplicatebooks #hemingwayproblems

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Saknicole
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Cleaning up my husband‘s workbench books. I laughed when he pointed to the Hemingway and said, “This one I have two of; I don‘t know how that happened.” 😂

#hemingwayproblems #duplicatebooks

marleed I wonder how many books I have in duplicate. I‘m sure it is more than 10 pairs! 9mo
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Trace
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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Mehso-so

My second Hemingway book.

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broughtyoubooks
Fiesta = The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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Mehso-so

This was recommended by a regular at work. I fully understand why, the prose is interesting and there are definitely some stand out paragraphs, but if you're in it for an engaging story/world it's...alright?? Am definitely interested in reading more Hemingway now, but it won't top my reading list, possibly just because my taste deviates.

Chrissyreadit Your kitty is beautiful!!! 2y
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SLSbooks
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
Mehso-so

Well my foray into Hemingway was so so. I thoroughly enjoyed The Old Man and The Sea years ago and hoped I would continue my admiration into The Sun Also Rises. Unfortunately I found a work full of broken people written evidently by a broken man who didn‘t want to fix himself or anyone around him. Pitying Hemingway is not what I was looking for, so I‘ll have to pass on this classic.

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tpixie
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I‘m glad I that I just read A Movable Feast and The Paris Wife before I dove into The Sun Also Rises.
Having read the backstories in those books helps me appreciate this novel more. The Lost Generation must have had some serious PTSD after WWI. #Paris

tpixie @yesmar post any post and we can like it! Welcome! (edited) 2y
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ImperfectCJ
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Thoughts while listening to this book:
-Memories of Spain and trying to imagine it in the 1920s (Madrid is easiest, but I probably still pictured it very wrong).
-How does Hemingway put so much imagery and emotion into such straightforward statements?
-These characters are about my grandparents' parents ages, and it gives me vertigo to think of them young like this and trying to figure out life.

Photo: erasers.

ImperfectCJ Also, my grandfather once said that when he was evacuated from Spain at age 13, he met a man named Ernesto who said he was from Oak Park, Illinois, and on the one hand, it seems like meeting Hemingway is something that could have happened to my grandpa (and vice versa), and on the other, it seems very unlikely, but I still like the story. 2y
tpixie @ImperfectCJ great story! 2y
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ImperfectCJ
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I really like Hemingway, but his subdued style and the up-all-night-in-Paris partying in this novel make this audiobook a strange listen while running. I wonder how many other people on the trail with me this morning had Papa's words in their ears?

Ruthiella There was so much drinking to excess in this book, it made me feel a little ill at the time. 2y
ImperfectCJ @Ruthiella Same here. I'm like, "Please don't pour her a brandy. Don't you have to be at work in a couple of hours?" I think I can blame these characters for how difficult the run felt this morning. 2y
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LadyBird
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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Mehso-so

I greatly enjoy Hemingway‘s “Iceberg Theory” but could do without the racism and anti-semitism. Katharine Hepburn‘s voice seems to jump from Brett‘s dialogue which is very enjoyable to read. If you‘re looking for a plot driven book, this is not the one for you.

DGRachel That cover is stunning! 2y
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5280reader
Panpan

I tried… almost bailed but hung on. I thought surely an almost 50 year old would enjoy this classic by Hemingway. Nope… lots of drinking and more drinking. A girl friendzones a guy…and there‘s a bull fight. I wish I knew what I was supposed to ‘get‘ from this book! So sorry to all the lovers of this one. #MarchBookSpin #bookspin

TheAromaofBooks When I read this one several years ago I noted that I never did run into a story 😂 2y
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rather_be_reading
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2nd one that came home with me

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282Mikado
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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Panpan

Another Hemingway disappointment. Written like a journal, a US Newspaperman stationed in Paris documents a short period in his life amongst his quasi-dysfunctional friends. His imagery is bland, the conversations are banal, the plot is non-existent, and the drunkenness is continual.

To make matters worse I read this immediately following Jane Eyre. Hemingway couldn‘t touch the bottom of Bronte‘s shoe if he were on a step ladder.

Pip2 That has to be the most honest and direct review I have ever read! 😂 And there is a magnanimous amount of truth to every subjective opinion you had that it quite honestly should be marked as objective in the literary world. #best review yet! 2y
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stevesbookstuf1
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When I buy a new book, I can't force myself to mark it up or highlight passages. But when I buy an old book like this Modern Library Hemingway, I find the markings someone else has made add to my experience of the book. I'm just weird that way.

Anyway, it's been years and years since I read The Sun Also Rises - it's time for a re-read.

marleed No not at all. Just today I realized a owned a thrifted paperback of the tagged. I pulled it out to set aside for Black History Month in February. I flipped through and saw that it‘s all marked up. I can‘t wait to read and find out why all the markings! 2y
stevesbookstuf1 I have a bunch of Modern Library editions I bought in used book stores some years back, just because I love the idea of these small hard covers. I've never read one of them, so I gave myself a goal of reading one of them each month this year. I am guessing I have more markings to find... 🙂 2y
Leftcoastzen I get it completely.😁 2y
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DGRachel
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D@mn you Penguin. I already have a beautiful copy of this book. I do not NEED another copy. But you know I cannot resist a Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition AND with an introduction by Amor Towles. 🤬🤬💸💸💸

LeahBergen Ooo, that IS a nice edition! 2y
DGRachel You are not helping me avoid buying this @LeahBergen !! 2y
BarbaraBB But she‘s right! It IS nice 😊 2y
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DGRachel @BarbaraBB 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤣🤣🤣 2y
Leftcoastzen That is so lovely! 2y
Branwen OF COURSE you need another copy of this book! It's an amazing book and this edition is gorgeous! 😁 2y
CarolynM I love that cover! 2y
readordierachel Those Deluxe editions are dangerous 😍 2y
batsy Very nice! 2y
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SerialReader
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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Just added a new year‘s worth of new books to Serial Reader, thanks to works from 1926 entering the public domain. The new batch includes Hemingway‘s “The Sun Also Rises” along with titles from Agatha Christie, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather and more

Find the full list at the blog: https://www.serialreader.org/blog/new-books-2022-hemingway-christie-doyle/

Happy 2022! 🎉

#serialreader

Simona Exciting❣️ 2y
rabbitprincess Payment Deferred is GREAT and I‘m so glad it‘s entered the public domain for people to enjoy 😄 2y
batsy Nice! 😍 2y
DrexEdit Yay! Thank you! 😊🎉 2y
tpixie Awesomeness 2y
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everlocalwest
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Mehso-so

Did this novel basically push me into a slight depression? Yes. Did I have to discuss how fraught and meaningless everything is with my therapist? Also, yes. Did I enjoy it? Final yes. Do I want to give Hemingway any credit whatsoever? Hard no.

Everyone wants something their friends/lovers/the world can no longer give. Jake wants Brett, Brett wants 🍆...everyone is sad and disappointed and drunk. The end.

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jpj7474
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway

Masterpiece. Left me utterly depressed reflecting on my youth, everything I never did, a place I can't get back to. Any book that causes one to emote so intensely, even if sadness, has to be a masterpiece.

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Susanita
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That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

Susanita That‘s the book in a nutshell. #Spain #JulyJourneys 3y
BookishMarginalia 😂😂😂 3y
Eggs ❤️🇪🇸🥳 3y
Ruthiella First you have to douse the whole thing in alcohol. I got contact drunk/hungover when I read it! 3y
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Schlinkles
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For this month‘s Tequila Mockingbird book club. I find myself appreciating Hemingway now that I‘m older. I really disliked all of his books when I read them in my late teens and early twenties.

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The_Penniless_Author
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This seems to be one of the more polarizing books on Litsy. It's all the things its detractors say, i.e., a book about ennui and a bunch of young people getting drunk and going to bullfights. I can't even mount a defense against those who think it's boring. And yet, I liked it anyway. Hemingway's writing to me is like the best journalism, spare and fact-based yet painting an overall picture much greater than the sum of its parts.

RamsFan1963 Its one of my all time favorite books. 3y
paulfrankspencer So good. Boring and beautiful, like life in the eyes of a listless poet. 3y
The_Penniless_Author @paulfrankspencer Yes, you're right. Maybe that's one of the things I like about it so much. Some of my best memories are of being young and bored, hanging out with friends in the pre-internet, pre-cell phone age with seemingly all the time in the world. This story's a brief interregnum of simple pleasures between two great periods of tragedy, which I think lends it weight. 3y
Suet624 Great review. 3y
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Emilymdxn
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Mehso-so

I‘d been meaning to read this for ages because it‘s so famous and well thought of. I didn‘t hate it but I also didn‘t find much about it that special - I kept thinking I must be missing something because people like it so much, but then I always find that with Hemingway. His writing style doesn‘t do much for me I guess. Eh.

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RamsFan1963
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📖 I've said this before, but I despise Lady Brett Ashley from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
📖 Ohhh a hard one, but in the end I'd take characters over plot. I can forgive a weak plot if I like the characters, but if the characters are weak/one-dimensional, then the most intricate plot in the world can't save the book for me.
#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

 @ReadingIsMyHobby @Onceuponatime @TheBookDream @Daisey @Bookishlie @Sharpeipup @Cuilin

CareBear My mom was named after her! lol 3y
TheSpineView I agree with your feelings on plot. Thanks for playing! 3y
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triplem80
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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I am hating this book SO much! If this wasn't a classic (and I wasn't such a hardcore finisher), I would have put it down a long time ago. Not only is it incredibly boring, but the casual racism is so cringeworthy (whether it's fitting for the time or not).

BarbaraBB Lol, I know what you mean. Isn‘t there also a lot of sexism? Might be another Hemingway‘ 3y
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Neptunes.Library
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This will be my first read of 2021 and also part of the reading goal I set for myself and the Goodreads Reading Challenge. Happy New Year, all! 🥂

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DaveGreen7777
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Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tags @Branwen @TheSpineView 😁

1️⃣ My apologies to the Ernest Hemingway fans out there in LitsyLand, but I have never been able to appreciate his writing. The tagged book especially I found so boring it may as well have been Ambien in text form for me! 😴

2️⃣ If I was brave, I might try to read “Moby Dick” on a boat one day! 🐳

3️⃣ Both are good, but I especially love caramel 😋

TheSpineView You're welcome! 😊 3y
Buechersuechtling I wasn‘t on Litsy for so long that I completely forgot how funny you are, David. Thank you for this post‼️🤗 3y
Eggs # 1 - 😂😂 Thanks for joining in Dave 🍫👏🏻📚 3y
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DaveGreen7777 @Buechersuechtling Awww, thank you, Jessica! You just made my day! 😊 3y
DaveGreen7777 @Eggs You‘re very welcome! 😀 3y
Gissy So polite to say that hate Hemingway's writing 🤣 3y
DaveGreen7777 @Gissy HA HA! Thank you, my friend! 😁 3y
paper.reveries Never attempted Hemingway, but then again.. Maybe I shouldn‘t. 😂 3y
DaveGreen7777 @daisyheadmaesie I think you‘re making the right call there, Daisy! 😂 3y
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Ruthiella
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I‘ve never had a book hangover. I don‘t know if that‘s a good or a bad thing? So instead I chose three books where there is so much drinking and drugging going on, I sometimes I felt a little ill reading them. 🥴

#3books

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😂😂😂 4y
merelybookish 😂🤣🍷 4y
Cathythoughts Very good 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂 4y
OriginalCyn620 Nice! 👌🏻 4y
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Jackdt02
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Pickpick

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theadl
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So muuuchhh alcoholll in this book. 😂

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Jennaree3
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
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A little Hemingway is the only way to start the day 📚📚 #quotes #literarylog #thesunalsorises

TheSpineView 👍 4y
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this_teacher_reads
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Jennaree3
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Pickpick

I‘m pretty sure I have alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver just from reading this book. Nothing really happens in the beginning, nor the middle...nor the end. But somehow, I still kind of liked it. Way easier to read than some of the other classics. Unpopular opinion: Lady Ashley/Brett was my favorite and a total riot.

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Jennaree3
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Some summer vibes and a little Hemingway. LOVE his writing style! 💕

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Floresj
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Pickpick

I‘m having to reread my books I‘ve moved with me until the library sends me that precious email that I can pick up holds! This one, I loved 20 years ago... I still wish the story was told from her perspective, and I love the succinctness of Hemingway. Although, it does feel like they are always drunk and partying. Maybe I‘m just jealous about the social interaction and traveling, but it would be fun to live it for a week😜!

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CoffeeNBooks
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OriginalCyn620 Love that cover! ☀️ 4y
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RamsFan1963
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😾 Lady Brett Ashley. I hated the way she tormented Jake Barnes in the tagged book. ⬆️. When I read the book in college, I thought she was a major bitch. I still do.
👃 Cedar, pine, fresh mowed grass, vanilla, cinnamon
📖 Hull Zero Three, Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics and The Fight for a Better Future, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy.
@audraelizabeth @Buechersuechtling

#thoughtfulthursday @MoonWitch94

MoonWitch94 💯 agreed about Lady Ashley! So terrible! Thanks for playing 📚😀 4y
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Pip2
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Hemingway‘s first main novel published in 1926. It started out slow for me, but after about page 60 the book was starting to peak my interest. Not one of my favorite Hemingway novels but a decent book overall. The characters in the story (especially Brett) were very contradictory.

lover.of.the.classics Welcome to the Litsy Family! And you have GREAT taste! 4y
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DannyOlda
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Pickpick

Though I think there wasn't a single likable character in the book, I have to admit it was very well written. It describes an age group and relationships very well. I understand it was about The Lost generation but it was also so #millennials.

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DannyOlda
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I don't know whether to be embarrassed by it or not, but I've never read Hemingway before. I figured this would be a good one to start with? Impression so far: young people haven't changed much.

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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
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#Menwhomatter in literature 📚📚

#GratefulReads

Eggs Lovely 💗 4y
ju.ca.no Pretty! 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @ju.ca.no thank you!!! 💞 4y
Reviewsbylola Those look like great editions! 4y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Reviewsbylola thank you!! My grandmother gave them to me ❤️ 4y
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Itchyfeetreader
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Breakfasting like Hemingway in Pamplona !

rockpools Wonderful! Enjoy 😊 4y
Cathythoughts Gorgeous 4y
Sace Lovely! 4y
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aliasNayNay
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Reading this today is very different than reading it when I was in high school.I loved it when I first read it, but this time around, it was just okay. I did enjoy Hemingway's description of the bullfights, beaches and what it's like to drink too much, travel without itinerary and take in the local culture. Just like many things, the writing style, the content, and presentation are of it's time.

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keepingupwiththepenguins
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I was eager to read more Hemingway, and a friend REALLY hyped up The Sun Also Rises. So, of course, I was hugely disappointed. I had more fun reading up on the gossip and controversy surrounding Hemingway's career than I did reading this book; so much masochistic masculine moping! Nabokov said Hemingway was all “bells, bulls and balls“, and that about sums it up. Full review: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/the-sun-also-rises-ernest-hemingway/

Velvetfur I agree, I was a bit meh about this one too, although I've enjoyed other Hemmingway stories before. I wrote down this same quote in my book journal! 😊 5y
keepingupwiththepenguins @Velvetfur Right?! There were a few really quotable passages, but aside from that, totally meh!! 😅 🙈 😂 5y
Boooooks Oh god I really didn‘t like the sun also rises it felt like reading the same thing over and over 😩 5y
keepingupwiththepenguins @Boooooks Right?! Bells, bulls, and balls, over and over again 😅 😂 ❤ 5y
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