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31 May-3 Jun 24 (audiobook)
I read many reviews before deciding how I feel about this book. Yes there is little plot, too much drinking and brawling, disagreeable characters and some anti-semitism all of which make it quite depressing. Not to mention bullfights! But Hemingway captures both the ennui and restlessness of the certain class of which he was a member during the period between the wars. Not likeable but somewhat authentic and evocative.

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening.”

Belief: drinking to excess makes one forget life‘s tragedies. Fact: drinking to excess is its own formidable tragedy resulting in depression, paranoia, irrationality, cirrhosis, suicide, death 💀 The Great War was horrendous and barbaric and unforgiving. Rivers of alcohol and loss😞

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.

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I found the duplicate on the shelf.

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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.” 😂

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My second Hemingway book.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

2nd one that came home with me

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.

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. 🤬🤬💸💸💸

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! 🎉

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

📖 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.
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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).

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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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 😋

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. 🥴

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So muuuchhh alcoholll in this book. 😂

A little Hemingway is the only way to start the day 📚📚 #quotes #literarylog #thesunalsorises

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.

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

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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😾 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.
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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.

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.

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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