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The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway

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| Paperback | 9780684800714

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The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation.Continue

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I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.
I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea o ... (continue)

I had not been thinking about her side of it. I had been getting something for nothing. That only delayed the presentation of the bill. The bill always came. That was one of the swell things you could count on.
I thought I had paid for everything. Not like the woman pays and pays and pays. No idea of retribution or punishment. Just exchange of values. You gave up something and got something else. Or you worked for something. Youi paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money. Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it. You could get your money's worth. The world was a good place to buy in. It seemed like a fine philosophy. In five years, I thought, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.
Perhaps that wasn't true, though. Perhaps as you went along
you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

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Mirco said on Jan 15, 2010 | Add your feedback

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It is indeed a book of Lost Generation. It is all about trivial things in daily life, the things that disillusion you...

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Sophie said on Dec 29, 2007 | 1 feedback

Okay, I must confess: I've read it twice with two different outcomes. The first time I wasn't satisfied at all, conversely I was annoyed (yes, I suppose it's the correct word) by the way the characters acted, the fact that drinking seemed to be the only thing they cared of, the lack of action. At le ... (continue)

Okay, I must confess: I've read it twice with two different outcomes. The first time I wasn't satisfied at all, conversely I was annoyed (yes, I suppose it's the correct word) by the way the characters acted, the fact that drinking seemed to be the only thing they cared of, the lack of action. At least I didn't feel it. In short: the first reading turned out to be a flat line. Much to my suprise, the second time I read it... well, I caught the meanings of every single thought, move, look, gesture. I owe it to my professor whose ability of teaching is so overwhelming that even an awful book turns out to be a masterpiece. Anyway, I understood that this lack of action, this kind of flat line that I felt is precisely what Hemingway wants to express in a postwar age. I'm not saying that I consider this book to be a masterpiece of the modernism, I think other works written in this period deserve the definition "masterpiece". Nevertheless... it's a book that must be read, because it has the capability of teaching the readers a lesson.

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Luisina said on Jan 6, 2012 | Add your feedback

Read this and imagine I was as if on a vacation through Paris down to South of France and across Spain. Drink Pernod in Paris; stroll around the Latin Quarter... Stop at Part 2. Hemingway's first fiction. When Euro is hitting 1.60 for each dollars, stay in Hong Kong and read this fiction instead ... (continue)

Read this and imagine I was as if on a vacation through Paris down to South of France and across Spain. Drink Pernod in Paris; stroll around the Latin Quarter... Stop at Part 2. Hemingway's first fiction. When Euro is hitting 1.60 for each dollars, stay in Hong Kong and read this fiction instead of heading away to Europe for a vacation.
"You are all a lost generation” -Gertrude Stein. Stein is someone that I wanted to meet, if there is an afterlife. The Roaring 20s.

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Search Serg said on May 2, 2008 | Add your feedback

A nice mirror of an era and a philosophy

Didn't like it extremely much but, indeed, here you can find a lot of topòi of Hemingway's literature and it's a nice piece of that '20s anti-culture of the Lost Generation.
Still prefer "From whom the bell tolls", but it's surely a nice novel.

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pujilittatuc said on Jan 4, 2008 | Add your feedback

Read in the Modern American Novel course I had as an undergraduate. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

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Batona said on Mar 26, 2007 | Add your feedback