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The Old Man & the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

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  • 01-12-2006 3:05pm
    #1
    BossArky
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    Read this in approx 3 hours. Just finished. Verdict? --> still not sure.

    I think that I've read too many books of a similar nature, i.e. Pincher Martin, the Pearl, Life of Pi, The Old Man & the Sea - all detailing the struggle of man against nature (more or less). By the end I wasn't too interested in what happened to either the old man or the fish.

    On the plus side, the writing flows and relaxes the mind. It brought me back to past holidays down that way.

    6.5 / 10? Someone change my mind.


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    Bodhidharma
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    I like how simple it is. The old man is trying to catch a big fish. Whats wrong with that? I think people over complicate books a lot of the time, just to look clever.

    As for the man v nature thing. I suppose it true, but i saw it as percevearing in the face of fierce opposition. I also liked the old man. He was quite funny.

    I'd give it 7.5 out of 10


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    Esmereldina
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    Bodhidharma wrote:
    I like how simple it is. The old man is trying to catch a big fish. Whats wrong with that? I think people over complicate books a lot of the time, just to look clever.

    As for the man v nature thing. I suppose it true, but i saw it as percevearing in the face of fierce opposition. I also liked the old man. He was quite funny.

    I'd give it 7.5 out of 10


    Well I just posted similar about this in poll thread...but still, here i go again ;) . I thought it was a teeny bit boring, and again, didn't really find myself caring about man and big fish... but I did read when I was still in school so maybe I'd change my mind now. I like everything else Hemingway wrote better that it though...


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    BossArky
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    Yep I certainly enjoyed For Whom the Bell tolls more so.


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    brianthebard
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    I thought it was great, a lot of themes and meaning for such a short story. The idea of the futility of the old man's actions, continuing to fight for the fish even after it has been desecrated and worthless can be interpreted in so many ways....

    Regards lots of other books of a similar nature OP, was Old man and the sea not written before them?


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