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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 5, 2012 22:28:33 GMT -6
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Post by Chicago Jake on Jan 6, 2012 0:27:02 GMT -6
This isn't my favorite Hemingway novel, but it is an excellent example of his unique style and voice. And the ending is a complete SLAP in the face that you don't forget. I remember building up a grudging respect for Lieutenant Henry through the course of the book, but at the end, I decided that he was just a worthless piece of shit after all.
Not that this is a complaint! I think that the author's intention was to elicit that type of reaction all along. And he succeeded admirably.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 6, 2012 7:44:06 GMT -6
I agree. In some regards, he wasn't a very "heroic" hero in that he was rather selfish -- but that made it more realistic.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Jan 6, 2012 7:46:55 GMT -6
I have not read Farewell, but I have For Whom the Bell Tolls in the reading queue. May add Farewell to the end of the queue.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 6, 2012 7:50:20 GMT -6
I was planning on "Bell" to be my next one.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Jan 6, 2012 10:10:05 GMT -6
I haven't read FWTBT, but I have read The Sun Also Rises. I think that's my favorite of his books. And another example where you have to read between the lines to understand what's going on.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jan 6, 2012 10:17:18 GMT -6
What I liked about "Farewell" was that the ending hit you hard and stuck with you, making you think about the characters and wondering what the future held for Lt. Henry.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jul 5, 2012 12:25:57 GMT -6
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Post by Tex on Jul 5, 2012 17:31:42 GMT -6
What I remember about reading this book the first time is that when I got down to just a few pages, I wondered how he was going to wrap this up and then it was over and brilliantly done at that.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jul 5, 2012 18:22:31 GMT -6
I found this article interesting for so many reasons. For one thing, how he tortured himself over the precise wording. Also, that he considered using Fitzgerald's suggestions for how it should be ended. Lastly, those other titles he considered -- I don't think any of them served the book as well as the one he finally chose.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Jul 5, 2012 18:24:13 GMT -6
He always agonized over the words. Hemingway would spend an entire day trying to get a single sentence just right. Not that he agonized over what would happen, but over using the perfect words to describe it.
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Post by Tex on Jul 5, 2012 18:29:29 GMT -6
Many of his titles are from the Book of Ecclesiastes.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Jul 5, 2012 21:52:43 GMT -6
I know that was true of "The Sun Also Rises" -- the quote from Ecclesiastes is at the beginning of the book.
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