The Sun Also Rises

[♥ COVID-19♥]

For the second year in a row, I read a book by Ernest Hemingway during my vacation at Hedo. This year, it was his novel about the so-called Lost Generation titled, "The Sun Also Rises".

I posted a few thoughts on it here.

[Chicago Jake]

I did the same thing you did - researched the book after reading it. I too was surprised at all the implications that I had missed! It made me wonder how people at the time would have reacted - did they miss the subtle implications as well? Or was it more obvious to contemporary readers?

I did see the movie, long after reading the book. It was very, very superficial by comparison, and I can't really recommend it, except for the awesome portrayal of Mike Campbell by Errol Flynn. Eddie Albert was pretty funny in it, too.

Edited: Aha! I thought so! I did post a movie review, here.

[♥ COVID-19♥]

While reading the book, I was aware of the fact that there had been a movie made -- but the more of the book I read, the more it occurred to me that making a movie out of this book would be difficult because you couldn't keep the richness of the story in the movie that you had in the book. So, it doesn't really surprise me in the least that you characterized the movie as superficial -- I really don't see how it could be anything but.

Thanks for the link to the movie review -- I'll check it out later.

[Tex]

I read this some years back, with many of the same sentiments.

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is well worth the time, likewise "To Have and Have Not".

One of my favorites "The Dangerous Summer" was the last novel EH published in his life. "Islands in The Stream" was good but published postumously after being completed from his notes - the N word was scrubbed here also.

Short stories: almost all good. I liked "Up in Michigan".

[♥ COVID-19♥]

His short stories I was introduced to in college were "Hills Like White Elephants" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"; I thought both were first rate.