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The one that sticks in my head is Old Man in the Sea . Still hate that book. My daughter just read Call of the Wild (or a different Jack London book, I can't remember) and loathed it. Came home cranky every single day. Every single damn day. I was so very very happy when they were done -- ...
I have to join in with The Old Man and the Sea with all the others here. I loved Lord of the Flies though. I read CONSTANTLY when I was a kid, but the second I was ASSIGNED a book, I automatically lost interest. That's probably why my teachers were always so frustrated with me!
I had trouble ...
I'm surprised at how turned off many were by The Old Man and the Sea and by Moby Dick; not so surprised by the reactions to Lord of the Flies because I haven't read it. and it has never been on my TBR List.
I really loved Melville's most famous, and admired Hemigway's most famous (thoug ...
I'm surprised at how turned off many were by The Old Man and the Sea and by Moby Dick; not so surprised by the reactions to Lord of the Flies because I haven't read it. and it has never been on my TBR List.
I really loved Melville's most famous, and admired Hemigway's most famous (thoug ...
I will join the chorus for The Old Man and the Sea ; I have horrible memories of that book, picking apart each and ever damn line. I have never read another work by Hemingway and more than likely never will. Darn him and his horrid giant sail-fish to heck!
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
7. To Kill a Mockingbird
8. The Once and Future King
9. Lord of the Flies
10. The Old Man and the Sea
11. The Catcher in the Rye
12. 1984
13. Animal Farm
14. Pippi Longstocking
15. The Stranger
16. Their Eyes were Watching God
17. ...
Hated and still do;
Silas Marner , The Yearling, The Pearl and The Old Man and the Sea .
As I matured (got old and cranky) I got over some of the dislikes and Hemingway and Steinbeck are two of my favorite authors
... Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row
Gormenghast trilogy by Mervun Peake
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Hurston
The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
They Shoot Horse ...
268. House Lust by McGinn
269. Last Day by Kleier
270. Ishmael by Quinn
271. Modigliani Scandal by Follett
272. The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway
273. Geisha, a Life by Iwasaki
274. The Sound of No Hands Clapping by Young
275. Ever is a Long Time by Eubanks
... 13/12/09
F: Hadrian Memorandum by Folsom - 24/11/09
G: Snoop: What Your Stuff Says ABout You by Gosling - 10/11/09
H: The Old Man and The Sea by Hemingway - 12/12/09
I: Geisha, a Life by Iwasaki - 13/12/09
J: Children of Men by James - 16/12/09
K: The Last Day by Kleier - 13/12/09
...
... Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway
Dune, Frank Herbert
Siddartha, Herman Hesse
Trojan Women, Hippolytus
Electra, Hippolytus
The Iliad, Homer
Brave New Wo ...
1st quiz - Babar
2nd - A portrait of the artist as a young man
It seems I'm growing up! I'll probably be The old man and the sea by the 3rd quiz.
... book I've attempted.
Ones I had to try multiple times on, though:
* Finnegans Wake
* The Lord of the Rings
* Old Man and the Sea (I'm as surprised as you are)
* Understanding Analysis (which is the thinnest and most complicated mathematics book I've ever read)
* The Holy Bible ...
Today I bought:
The Cinnamon Peeler
The Awakening
Black Beauty
The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I also have a few books going:
Old Man and the Sea is our store staff's read for November at Barnes & Noble in Manchester, NH
Level 26 is an interesting thriller that includes trips to an associated website.
Halfway through Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts. Great short story ...
... own.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/080294_harp_ITH.html">
William Faulkner reading aloud .
Extended selections from: Old Man , As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and the Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.
... story by Camus. I hugely prefer it if the author doesn't leave it to me to see the meaning of his/her book.
For me The Old man and the Sea is a (very) simple story about a poor fisherman who does the only thing he knows: fish. Not much more.
Ernest Hemmingway – The Old Man and the Sea
Maybe I'm too young to fully appreciate it; should probably reread in a decade (or two). Though I didn't greatly enjoy his prose.
7/10
... Frome and Death in Venice ).
Their "Summer" and "Volsungs" are not necessarily among my all time favorites.
Old Man and the Sea I read near the time of its publication (1950s). I am compensating here for the many bad reviews it got in another thread (I think the "Awful Classics ...
On the Marble Cliffs / Auf den Marmorklippen
by Ernst Junger
The Old Man and the sea
by Ernest Hemingway
The Jolly Corner by Henry James
The Blood of the Volsungs by Thomas Mann
Summer by Edith Wharton
53. The old man and the sea - Hemingway
What more can I say about this novel? There's already so many written about this. I can only say that I liked it.
... though it's much longer than a short story.
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Honorable mention:
Candide
The Old Man and the Sea
The Princess of Cleves
... ctor,
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann,
The Lifted Veilby George Eliot,
The Eyes by Edith Wharton, and
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Interesting little test here.
belva
... apparently has a different ending.
And now for my Best of Each Category awards:
I. Book to Screen (Movie or TV): The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway, with Honorable Mention to the fabulous Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake.
II. 1001 Books (Old or New): The Remains of ...
Pulitzer: Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
An old fisherman wakes up one morning and goes out to sea, hoping to catch a big fish since it’s been 84 days since his last catch. He says goodbye to his friend, a boy whom he taught how to fish, and sets out. After several hours of ...
... publish four of Hemingway's most famous novels (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea ) in their Library of Essential Writers series (link below). The book is pretty cheap (under $14), but it is rather large and cumbersome to ...
... by John Dos Passos
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald
The Old man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Extraordinary ...
That may be true, but I, like Christina, enjoy reading Hemingway. I couldn't live without The Old Man and the Sea .
yours humbly,
belva
... not looked at Sun Also Rises in 25 years or more. Is it quite possible I may have the same response? Of course it is. Old Man and the Sea I looked at more recently than that and I suspect is not dumb. Nick Adams has some first rate stories in it, for style if nothing else. (What is the ...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
... Both men had such intriguing things to say about their writing. Alright, so I probably won't read any Hemingway besides The Old Man and the Sea which I read for school, but it was awfully encouraging to see him poking a little bit of fun at the folks who saw a symbol in everything. Now in ...
... Both men had such intriguing things to say about their writing. Alright, so I probably won't read any Hemingway besides The Old Man and the Sea which I read for school, but it was awfully encouraging to see him poking a little bit of fun at the folks who saw a symbol in everything. Now in ...
... Michaylovic Dostoyevsky
Although, Russian names drives me crazy this was pretty hilarious little novel.
32. The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Having read this now twice, I still don't like it nor understand why it has a reputation of being a notable piece of ...
... the writing wasn't so good or whatever - I just want to hold on to that magical memory. LoTR was one of those for me, and The Old Man and the Sea .
Other books that I liked a lot, but weren't transformative, have become reliable comfort books that I read over and over again.
You've got ...
7| And the winner is... (Booker / Pulitzer) (1)
1. Cormac McCarthy – The road
2. Ernest Hemmingway - The Old Man and the Sea
8| The new world (American classics)
1. John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
Possibilities:
Henry Fielding - The history of Tom Jones
My wife found this amazing animated adaptation of Hemingway's THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA . You'll love this, folks:
http://www.openculture.com/2009/09/the_old_man_the_sea_animated.html
... Pasternak: Dr. Zhivago
1957 - Albert Camus : L'Etranger, La Peste, The Fall,
1954 - Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea , Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls
1953 - Winston Churchill: Their Finest Hour, The Gathering Storm, Blood, Sweat and Tears ...
... Also Rises twice; once for high school English, and then again about 20 years later. For high school English I also read The Old Man and the Sea and A Farewell to Arms. Plus a couple of EH's short stories. I'm currently reading For Whom the Bell Tolls, and quite frankly, I'm rather bored. ...
... crafted so that there is not a word out of place. There is precision and honesty in his style reminiscent of Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea and in Orwell's later works. Not a book that you want to gobble up in one go, but worth savouring slowly.
8/10
I do remember reading and liking Old Man and the Sea during high school. I don't know that I still would. Other titles are vague in my memory. Perhaps I've read For Whom the Bell Tolls or Farewell to Arms. All I remember is a description of lovemaking during which "the earth moved". I think ...
... writers use different kinds of language, some lush and some spare. They "sing" in different ways. Hemingway's prose in Old Man and the Sea , it can be argued, "sings". Gerard Manley Hopkins "sings", though in a totally different way.
On another thread, Murr recently quoted Dostoevsky ...
... Reader by Bernhard Schlink
77) Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
78) For One More Day by Mitch Albom
79) The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
MAY
80) I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak
81) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley ...
The Old Man and The Sea seems like an obvious choice. Granted, it may not be about sailing per se, but it certainly has a nautical theme.
... in the Rye when I was too young, though--I was about 11 and hadn't reached the years of teen angst. I didn't really like The Old Man and the Sea because I thought the old guy should just go home and find a nice fish market. Hemingway has only recently started appealing to me.
F. Scott Fitz ...
... 1: 1001 Books 2/10
1. The Red and the Black
2. The Piano Teacher currently reading
3. The Tin Drum read
4. The Old Man and the Sea
5. The Plot Against America
6. The Shining - read
86. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I had read this in high school or college and really enjoyed this and I really enjoyed it this time too. I don't understand how so many people dislike this work. It's so well written and so poignant. Anyway, this is off the 1001 books to read ...
reading the The Sun Also Rises, hopefully wil be a great book unlike The Old Man and the Sea
reading the The Sun Also Rises, hopefully wil be a great book unlike The Old Man and the Sea
I have an English class this semester which requires that I read The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I could buy it, but...well, I know I definitely don't want to keep it after the class is over. Does anyone here have a copy they have yet to put on BookMooch, or a copy that they'd be ...
In a boat with a tiger on the open ocean brings to mind:
The Old Man and the Sea
Open Boat and Other Stories
Ahab's Wife
Zoo's and oceans:
The works of Gerald Durrell
Robert
Finished The old man and the sea and started Oroonoko.
Julia
I finished The old man and the sea and am on to Neck & Neck by Elizabeth Bevarly.
Julia
I finished The Illusions of Love and next is The old man and the sea .
Julia
#58 I think Hemingway was a great writer who, unfortunately, had almost nothing of value to say. The Old Man and the Sea would be the exception.
...
Animal Farm
Under the Volcano
Exercises in Style
1984
The Catcher in the Rye
Molloy
Memoirs of Hadrien
The Old Man and the Sea
Casino Royale
Fear of Flying
The Dispossessed
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Interview with the Vampire
Delta Venus
If on a Winter's Nig ...
... woman who is always Tan and Has a Flat Stomache by Lauren Allison & Lisa Perry, Life Without Water by Nancy Peacock, The Old Man and the Sea by Earnest Hemingway, A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker, Carrot Cake Murder and Cream Puff Murder both by Joanne Fluke, Dewey: the Small-Tow ...
Simultaneously fishing the Gulf Stream with Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea and traveling with the circus in mid America in Sara Gruen's 1930's tale Water for Elephants, I'm looking forward to rejoining Jung Chang's Wild Swans in China.
I actually finished reading The old man and the sea which was a good read but I don't really get it. So basically the old man's goals were too high - and he got punished - and then he sleeps dreaming of lions so he is never satisfied. What a frustrating and depressing read - no wonder he killed ...
... Bovary
The Mill on the Floss
Les Miserables
Moll Flanders
Mrs Dalloway
Native Son
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Out of Africa
... Piper
13. Kris Longknife: Deserter by Mike Shepherd
14. Kris Longknife: Mutineer by Mike Shepherd
15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
16. Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital Camera (Updated Edition) by Bryan Pe ...
... they do, we piss and moan about what they are reading: not sufficiently snobbish. We can't have it both ways. When I see The Old Man and the Sea or Rabbit, Run or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I wonder how many trees could have been saved by not printing them. My taste just doesn't roll ...
... Web
7) Brideshead Revisited
8) The Crow Road
9) Hamlet
10) Romeo and Juliet
11) Divine Comedy
12) The Old Man and the Sea
13) by Mark Twain, never officially published, but mentioned in his biographies; Mark Twain
14) The American Crisis
15) The Man Who Folded Hi ...
LE VIEIL HOMME ET LA MER (THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA) by Ernest Hemingway. Translated by Jean Dutourd
... Golden
10. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
13. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
14. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15. Mody-Dick by Herman Melville
...
Old man and the Sea
Here are the books so far this year:
1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
2. It's a Zoo Out There by Rachael Hale
3. Dewey by Vicki Myron
4. The Magic Lands by Mark Hockley
5. Farthing by Jo Walton
6. Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
7. The Coffee Trader by David Liss ...
Old Man and the Sea
Like Of Mice and Men, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway is an adult book that is short and uses simple prose, but brings with it a lot of meaning.
If he likes fantasy, I suggest The Book of Three and the rest of that series by Lloyd Alexander--I still reread them every ...
Well, Whisper1, I am sorry you didn't like The Old Man and the Sea but I am not surprised. Papa Hemingway is a little dark and you are just not at all dark. So, even that title isn't one of his particularly dark ones, I can see that it just didn't jive for you. I think Peter might be onto ...
Belated Congratulations on reaching #75!!!
On Hemingway, The Old man and the Sea is the only Hemingway I did ever read, long time ago for school. I don't remeber it exactly, but I do know I liked it back then. It is on my list to re-read some day.
Anita
I did a literary comparison of The Old Man and the Sea and Life of Pi for my A-Level coursework (quite a big deal!).
I found that I appreciated TOMatS a lot more when I was analysing its structure, language, plot, meaning etc. I don't think I ever ended up seeing it as the kind of book I ...
... Hemingway - probably because both my mother and the schools I attended were constantly shoving him down my throat. The Old Man and the Sea is a particular un-favorite of mine. If you offered me a hundred dollars to read it again, I would not do it. (Might consider doing it for 5K, but ...
I enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea and I'm glad that ELiza explained it so well. I thought it was uplifting and sad. I struggled through some of For Whom the Bell Tolls but I loved it in the end. I was disappointed when it ended. That is one of the reasons I try to finish books.
Congrats ...
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The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
41- The catcher in the rye *
42- Memoirs of Hadrian
43- The old man and the sea *
44- Lord of the flies
45- The lord of the rings
46- Doctor Zhivago
47- Manon des sources
48- One hundred years of solitude
49- 2001: a space odyssey
50- The godfather
51- The year of the ...
... is being counted twice, once as an African read and once as a short story collection. I also read Beauty Sleep and The Old Man and the Sea
April 2009
22. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
23. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
24. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
25. Master of the Highlands by Veronica Wolfe
26. Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
27. Austenland by Shannon Hale
28. Next by Michael ...
... Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Czech Republic – Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
Cuba – The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Denmark – On Modern Marriage and Other Observations Isak Dinesen
Dominica – Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys
Egypt ...
... Thompson because the title intrigued me and was blown away. Now I have a collection of his books.
Bad experiences- The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. So boooring. Also an ER book, Dali & I , which I just knew I was going to like as when it arrived but I ended up wondering how ...
... Thompson because the title intrigued me and was blown away. Now I have a collection of his books.
Bad experiences- The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway. So boooring. Also an ER book, Dali & I , which I just knew I was going to like as when it arrived but I ended up wondering how ...
... I remember Steinbeck and Hemingway being touted as the great American writers (of this I have no opinion) but Hemingway's The Old Man of the Sea and Steinbeck's East of Eden drag and drag. The movies made from them were of course 'Hollywoodized' and it actually improved them. Barbara Stanwick ...
Just finished The old man and the sea . Next on my tbr pile is Cry, the beloved country.
My review for The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway:
Wow. That's all I could think when I finished this story. Wow. The language was just beautiful. The themes that played out in the old man's mind, and in his struggle with the sea, are ones that resonate with all of us. Courage in ...
... fascinating, because of his struggle with being taught that slavery was right, and his better feelings coming through. But The Old Man and the Sea ? Ew. Yuck. Doesn't make any sense.
Oh, and before I forget, Moby Dick. For Literature, I only had one chapter to read of it, the one about the ...
Thank you Wookiebender. Yes, I did enjoy The Old Man and the Sea . The language was very beautiful and the story was so sad.
I'm doing my reviews of all those books today. I apologise in advance that they will be just coppy and pasted from my blog, but there are a lot to get through :-)
Here ...
I am so glad to see that I wasn't alone in my struggle with Hemingway. I had read The Old Man and the Sea about two years ago, but as a novella, it had a very different feel - and none of the archane (sp?) language in For Whom the Bell Tolls. I think at the end, I would say that it was a ...
... off those Poe short stories in the meantime). Watch this space.
Good to see you back again, fairy-whispers. Did you like The Old Man and The Sea ? I've only tried one Hemingway novel (To Have and Have Not, I loved the movie with Bogart) and I found it a very difficult slog as a teenager. Been ...
I've only read two short novellas by Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Old Man and the Sea . The first one I didn't like at all and the second one I liked quite a bit. However I wasn't very impressed by his writing style in either so I'm kind of afraid to approach one of his longer ...
... to do better in April.
I am planning on finishing Frankenstein and then reading The Poisonwood Bible and hopefully The Old Man and the Sea .
... to do better in April.
I am planning on finishing Frankenstein and then reading The Poisonwood Bible and hopefully The Old Man and the Sea .
... Dark Room by Minette Walters
Gerald's Game by Stephen King
Seven Little Australian's by Ethel Turner
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I will put my opinions here over the next few days, as I do the reviews on my blog.
The books I am currently reading ...
... an author from, Chile. I hadn't read anything from Chile before, so that was extra nice. I felt it was kind of similar to The Old Man in the Sea (not sure why, but I kept thinking of it while reading), in some ways, but I liked it much more.
It tells the story of a young man who befriends ...
>12 It took me three attempts over several years to get through The Old Man and the Sea before I could finish it and really enjoy it. That might be one of those books that, for whatever reason, has to be read at the "right" time.
... - I also had never read Hemingway before last year and always considered it a big gap. I dipped my toe in by finishing The Old Man and the Sea last year and wasn't that impressed. However, I'm now half-way through For Whom the Bell Tolls and after a confusing first few pages, I am really ...
... enjoying it so far. I really like Hemingway's writing style, I'll definitely be reading For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea .
I've also started Stories in Stone: A field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister. It's more of a reference book, ...
... you a link. I haven't read any of these books yet.
Lately, the best books that I have read are The Princess Bride, The Old Man and the Sea , A Raisin in the Sun. Also, funny was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
I have a bathroom that I need to work on . . . . But I will go ...
... Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
12. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. The Leopar ...
... Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
12. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. The Leopar ...
... the results. Overall, this is a worthy book for those who are truly interested in the subject.
I am now reading both The Old Man and the Sea and The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve.
... Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lod of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
36. On the Road = Jack Kero ...
... Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lod of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
36. On the Road = Jack Kero ...
... Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
31. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
32. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
33. The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest Hemingway
34. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
35. The Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis
36. On the Road = Jack Ker ...
... I see that you liked A Farewell to Arms. As I replied to you on my thread, one of my favorites of this year so far is The Old Man and the Sea , also by Hemingway. And it was the first book this year. :) Good luck with your reading challenge. Looks like you have picked some terrific books ...
... short, which helps in the count! I have read some great books this year, so far. I would say that my favorites have been: The Old Man and the Sea , A Raisin in the Sun, and The Princess Bride -- all totally different from each other.
#95 Hi, Charlie! You always crack me up! And bring a ...
I often feel like Santiago from The Old Man and the Sea ...all that work and sweat and trying, and I still come home with a half-eaten fish.
If you ever get a chance to read The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty, well, then, you'll know the story of my life.
And on a good day, I'm Eva Luna ...
... -- Vladimir Nabokov
56) Lord of the Flies -- William Golding
57) Invisible Man -- Ralph Ellison
58) The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
59) The Catcher in the Rye -- J. D. Salinger
60) 1984 -- George Orwell
61) Cry, the Beloved Country -- Alan Paton
62) ...
... and too influenced by my family (they often discussed with disgust the books of Hemmingway) to fully appreciate is work. The Old Man and the Sea was the only one I liked.
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As for my own reading this coming week, I'm currenty reading The World Without ...
... in, but they have been rather dull pages. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that it will pick up. I read Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea a couple summers ago, and was unimpressed, but I've heard that book isn't really reflective of his other writing. We shall see...
Sandition is ...
... not read A Farewell to Arms but I hear it is great. I have read two books by Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea , both of which I thought were fantastic. I can't wait to see what you think of this one.
--BJ
Hi, nannybebette! Thanks for the recommendation on the audio book for The Old Man and the Sea ! I have been wanting to start listening to audio books for a while now, and from what others say, it really makes a difference who reads for the CD!
I cannot believe how far behind I have gotten on ...
The Old Man and the Sea is one of my very favorite books in the world!~!~! Even though you read it so recently you should get it on tape. It is read by Donald Sutherland and is the best audio books I have ever listened to. Happy reading.
nannybebette
sandalphon,
Nice to see Catcher in the Rye and The Old Man and the Sea on your list. These sure do get a lot of flak throughout other LT discussions.
geneg,
Yes, yes, bub. This here-a readin' thing is a really new to me too. Tough call, and no where near as toffee-nosed as some other ...
... Neuromancer, lolita, Brave new world, Swann's way, catcher in the rye, Jude the obscure, Ender's game, old man and the sea , beowulf.
... Antonio Skarmeta - The Postman
Columbia: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Cuba: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Guyana: Oonya Kempadoo - Buxton Spice
Haiti: Edwidge Danticat - Breath, Eyes, Memory
Mexico: Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Queen of South
Peru ...
... a longer novel because it might set me back against my goal. Likewise, I no longer wanted to read shorter novellas like The Old Man and the Sea because I didn't feel like it should count as a full book. Needless to say, I gave up on the challenge when I realized that it was taking the fun ...
> 137: Luna
I read the The old man and the sea ages ago, on highschool, maybe time for a revisit. But first I want to read Moby Dick, looking for a decent copy the library only has abbridged versions.
I did my A-level coursework study on comparing Life of Pi and The Old Man and the Sea and had to read it pretty intensively for that. I really enjoyed it then, but haven't read it since. Maybe I will one day.
... and comprehend at several thousand words per minute. That would certainly reduce the durations of the moans while reading Old Man and the Sea .
(Peripherally, I was also wondering about the lack of an apostrophe in "CliffsNotes" or ("Cliffs Notes" - the old name). De-apostrophising seems ...
... from recent students it appears the common teaching method is still in-depth analysis of fairly short works King Lear, The Old Man and the Sea , etc. Is spending a month or two (albeit at an hour per day), the best way to teach books or plays which can be read in a few hours? My suggestion ...
... way to read the "greats" of fiction writing, I discovered that I've read relatively few Nobel Prize winning authors.
a. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
b. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
c. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinri ...
... As a result of this goal (and I only occasionally read these books), I have recently read Beloved (also book nudged), The Old Man and the Sea , and The Great Gatsby. All of these books were terrific.
On the other hand, this is just a personal goal. I agree that everyone should read ...
... and don't like it, you've invested very little time. If you do like it, you can explore onward from there.
The Old Man and the Sea was the first Hemingway I read and I enjoyed it a lot. I thought I had found another read-everything author. However, then I tried A Farewell to A ...
... anything that bothered me in his stories. I have only read two of his shorter works - The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Old Man and the Sea - the former of which I didn't enjoy and the latter I did quite a lot. At the time I read Snows of Kilimanjaro I was 16 (?) and I wasn't aware of ...
... bothers me more is that none of the main characters seem like persons of action themselves. I can't help but compare it to The Old Man and the Sea (or any of Hemingway's books, really), and I find Hemingway's characters much more laudable: they aren't perfect, and are certainly not unreflective ...
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Not a bad month!
... and Men by John Steinbeck
The Execution by Hugo Wilcken
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Eating Chinese Food Naked by Mei Ng
Sophie by Guy ...
I just wanted to chime in with love for The Old Man and the Sea . It's one of my mom's favourites but it took me a few attempts to get into it. Well worth it, it's a beautiful little story.
ETA: I've had a hard time with Toni Morrison too. I've only read The Bluest Eye by her so far and I' ...
... reading? If I think of a good classic book, I'll let you know. I did read one that I loved this year that is short. It is The Old Man and the Sea . Some people don't like it, but it was only about 125 pages long. Have a great day!
--BJ
Hi, Smiler!
I read a short book by Hemingway this year called The Old Man and the Sea . I loved it. I have A Mercy waiting to be read, so I look forward to your thoughts on it.
--BJ
... it is probably similar to Treasure Island.
Not much help, am I? So I recommend it, but it is not up there with Old Man and the Sea which I loved.
--BJ
ETA I forgot to mention that there are some Scottish accents used throughout. I know that some people don't like the dialects in ...
... Eighty-Four, 2007
55. The Heat of the Day, 2008
56. The 13 Clocks, 2006
57. The Catcher in the Rye, 1980s
58. The Old Man and the Sea , 1970s
59. The Lord of the Flies, 1970s
60. The Lord of the Rings, 1970s
... on several threads but no one has mentioned the only novel of his that I own: The Sun Also Rises. (Well, I also own The Old Man and the Sea , but I've read that). I have a volume of the Complete Short Stories, too. I'd like to do Hemingway as a classic this year because I haven't ...
... subltle colors and sharpness of detail altogether, and just look like very, very good illustrations--not works of art.
The Old Man and the Sea not only is the finest printed version of the most famous work of Hemingway (though far from his best in my opinion), but it has photographs by one ...
The Old Man and The Sea , by Ernest Hemingway, read in the middle 1980s, still in my library
billiejean:
I've actually not read The Old Man and the Sea , which is bad considering the fact that Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite authors. I definitely plan on reading it soon--probably as a reward after reading something long!--so it's great to hear that you loved it. And thanks for ...
Hi, poplin!
I like to read books off the 1001 list, too. The first book I read this year was The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I really loved that book. It has a man versus nature theme. Good luck with your reading challenge and congrats on the marriage! :)
--BJ
... Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
9. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
10. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
11. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
12. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
13. The Leopar ...
... was sold for $6,000 (I know the reason), there were some quite outlandish sales made - $1,500 on Tom Sawyer, $865 for The old Man and the Sea , $511 for Walden, or Life in the Woods and many others above the $100 mark.
At the same time, many good (or even pristine) copies of other LEC ...
... TBR
2. Othello TBR
3. As You Like It TBR
4. Romeo and Juliet TBR
1001 Books Read in 2009- So far I've read-
1. Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 1/09
2. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Currently Reading
US Presidents Challenge 2009-
Fic ...
I really enjoyed The Old Man and the Sea and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
I did an A-level essay on The Old Man and The Sea and compared it with Life of Pi and reading it like that, analysing a lot of it, I really enjoyed it.
I'm not sure I would have done so much had I not been looking at it in such depth; I think I could have been quite bored by it as a simple ...
Mac
Thanks for the reviews on A Farewell To Arms and The Invisible Man, I also have The Old Man and The Sea sitting on my shelf for some time, maybe March would be a good time to start on the Ernest Hemingway books.
... I have read something by him in the past that may have put me off him - can't remember what exactly!
I enjoyed the film The Old Man and the Sea with Spencer Tracey.
Go on then,Mac, make me love Hemingway! :)
- TT
... appears that almost all movies came from a book! When having dinner with my dad and stepmom, I mentioned that I had read The Old Man and the Sea , and they mentioned the movie of it. When I looked it up there were two movies of it! I love movies, too. So I think these will all be fun books.
...
... Stories
Harry Potter
The Diary of a Young Girl
Lord of the Rings
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Old Man in the Sea
... been categorized as SFF/Speculative Fiction, I think, because of the alternative history.
Also, I wanted to mention that The Old Man and the Sea could also have been listed on the 1001 Books category. I want to list alternate categories in case I need to move things around later or do ...
... by Sinclair Lewis
1925 So Big by Edna Ferber
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
"Fiction"
* 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1956: Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
1960: Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
* 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harpe ...
billiejean,
Though I can't say I'm a big Hemingway fan, I actually remember exactly the day I read The Old Man and the Sea . It was last year I was sitting at an Everest having a sandwich when I realized my bag was open and about 70 euros and my phone were missing. I was really pissed off and was ...
... finish them in the time frame the club will.
Unread Nov./Dec. book club selections
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I own these four and will read them all at ...
... Life of Oscar Wao (2008)
The Road (2007)
Middlesex (2003)
The Color Purple (1983)
Advise and Consent (1960)
The Old Man and the Sea (1953)
Gone with the Wind (1937)
One of Ours (1923)
Books I couldn't finish (I'm getting too old to force myself to finish something). They ...
... a group to encourage me to stick with a longer book. :)
Hi, Teresa! You know Beloved got on my TBR the same way that The Old Man and the Sea did. The teachers at our local high school really know how to pick the books! :) I am planning to read all of the books that they assigend to my ...
Finished reading The Old Man and the Sea -Ernest Hemingway. I'm trying to read books this year that are classics. The only books I remember having to read in high school were A Separate Piece by John Knowles & The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I have some college by haven't taken a college E ...
... Salinger, 1960's
152. Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 1960's
153. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham, 1960's
154. The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway , 1960's
155. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1960's
156. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1960's
157. Go Tell It on the Mountain, ...
... Salinger, 1960's
152. Foundation, Isaac Asimov, 1960's
153. The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham, 1960's
154. The Old Man and the Sea, Hemmingway , 1960's
155. The Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1960's
156. Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1960's
157. Go Tell It on the Mountain, ...
I'm reading The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway & One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
... Trafficking and Resistance by Louisa Waugh
Classics
1. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
2. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
3. Four Faultless Felons by G.K. Chesterton
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Prisoner of Zenda ...
BJ, I loved Santiago too, and his young helpmate, so loyal! And #36Shannon I like your linking Old Man and the Sea to Life of Pi, they are both such good internal struggles as well as external.
I'm glad to see you made room for the humor category, I have one too and look forward to seeing ...
... that I have never read. I know that it is around here somewhere. Thanks for the suggestion! :) I think both that and The Old Man and the Sea are on the 1001 list. If I need to cross-list, I definitely will later on.
RidgewayGirl, thanks for the suggestion on The Hitchhiker's Guide to ...
... welcome, alcottacre!
I started off the year with two short books. I need some of these for such a big challenge.
1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I read this book first on recommendation of LibraryLover23. What a magnificent story! This book has been hanging around my ...
I wrote a comparison paper in college of The Old Man and the Sea and Life of Pi. That might be another book for you to look into. And not to give things away, but perhaps it would work in multiple categories for you.
I started with a short but terrific book, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This is a book that my girls read in high school that I never did read in high school, so I wanted to read it. I loved this book. I loved the character Santiago as he approached his Man v. Nature challenge. ...
Thanks to a suggestion from LibraryLover23 in another group, I started my reading year with The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This is a book that my kids read in school that has been hanging around the house for a long time, because I want to read all the books that they read in ...
I just finished The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemimgway. It was quite short, but also a terrific read. I loved it. Next, I am going to start Swann's Way from In Search of Lost Time. I am going to take it slowly. Maybe a yearlong project for that one.
--BJ
Thanks to LibraryLover23's suggestion, I did indeed start with The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This book was a quick, easy read, but it was also magnificent. I loved this book! :) Now I need to start Swann's Way by Proust which I think will take me longer than a month to read.
- ...
Modern Classics/ Classics I Should Have Read by Now!
1. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway 1/09
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... Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath
Albert Camus: The Plague, The Stranger, The Outsider
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
André Gide: The Immoralist
Hermann Hesse: Siddharta
Eugene O’Neill: The Emperor Jones (didn't read ...
What book will you start off your TBR Challenge reading? I am planning to start with The Old Man and the Sea , followed by Swann's Way (which I expect to take a while).
--BJ
75 Books Challenge 2009
1. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
I. Book to Screen (Movie or TV)
1. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
2. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.
3. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
4. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
5. Run Silent, Run Deep by Commander Edward L. Beach.
6. Love Story by Erich Segal.
7 ...
Hi billiejean! If it's any kind of incentive for you I read The Old Man And The Sea in about an hour, so it should be an easy one to cross off your list. Good luck with your challenge!
... library..but I choose For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
I think only Hemingway that I read is...Old Man and the Sea ...
... for my first list.
1. Age of Innocence
2. On the Origin of Species
3. Alias Grace
4. Oliver Twist
5. The Old Man and the Sea (Read)
6. Invisible Man
7. Frankenstein (Read)
8. Dracula (Read)
9. Get Shorty (Read)
10. Dangerous Liasons (Read)
11. The Count of ...
The Old Man and the Sea , by Ernest Hemingway
... from Underground
Seize the Day
Fatelessness
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
All the Pretty Horses
The Crossing
The Old Man and the Sea
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
No Country for Old Men
The Stranger
Catch-22
I just noticed. It's actually The Old Man AND the Sea . Unless we are discussing another book I haven't read!
... And besides "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," I've never managed to finish a Hemingway novel except for The Old Man and the Sea which was required reading.
Curious what piques each of us, isn't it?
He was very sexist! Also the macho nonsense got old real fast. But i really loved The Old Man and The Sea . 8^)
... to read a few without trying:
Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Tales of the South Pacific, James Michner
The Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
The Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (no available touchstone for this one. How ...
I love To Kill a Mockingbird each time I read it!
I just finished the Old Man and the Sea and I'm going to read Angle of Repose next.
... My favorite so far is The Count of Monte Cristo but this year I've also read and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea , Slaughter-house Five, Alas, Babylon and The Catcher in the Rye. I also re-read Jane Eyre.
... My favorite so far is The Count of Monte Cristo but this year I've also read and enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, The Old Man and the Sea , Slaughter-house Five, Alas, Babylon and The Catcher in the Rye. I also re-read Jane Eyre.
... language," but I've certainly heard worse from this age group when they thought they were out of adult hearing!
Old Man and the Sea might be another adventurous one that isn't too intimidating in length.
... great literature, it doesn't matter what any one of any age reads. I once knew a 7 year old avid reader that was reading Old Man and the Sea .
There are some books out there that I think could have been labeled as YA, but they generally have just a bit more mature subject matter. Twelve by ...
I have a love hate relationship with Mr. Hemingway. For awhile it seemed I couldn't escape The Old Man and the Sea , read it in high school.. it followed me to college and ended up in my senior english thesis as a comparison between it and Life of Pi. I've also read Farewell to Arms which I ...
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
pgs: 93. Finished 7 November.
total pages: 11567
... Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Ann Porter
Old Man by William Faulkner
Cloud, Castle, Lake by Vladimir Nabokov
**On A Whim (List subject to change...a lot)**
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan
The Rule ...
... Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzkenisyn
5. The House of Spirits
6. The Old Man and the Sea , Ernest Hemingway
7. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. The Swarm,
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... sea." This book was written while Gellhorn was married to Hemingway, but about 10 years before the publication of The Old Man and the Sea . I smile wickedly.
... A Moveable Feast and was actually a little surprised by The Sun Also Rises which I hadn't read until earlier this year- The Old Man and the Sea is another story. Rob I am glad to hear your son liked it though.
... to any writer who can turn a teenage boy into a voracious reader. When he and my wife have appreciative discussions of The Old Man and the Sea , I just sit and smile.
... in the past. I have reread To Kill a Mockingbird recently. Simply a brilliantly written story. The others are The Old Man and the Sea (did not enjoy that in high school), Angle of Repose, Lonesome Dove, Beloved (I can't remember if this was an audio book), The Mambo Kings Pla ...
... Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1954 (No Award)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1950 The ...
Your description reminds me of The Old Man and the Sea but it seems unlikely that that is the story you are looking for...
... you go to one of the books listed and click the view history link, you can see which language it was entered in. For the Old Man and the Sea , at least, it's on the .fr site. The same user has added a number of other series as well. Hmmm... there are others on the Italian site, added by ...
... abortive attempts and it's bored me silly every time.
Treasure Island
Kidnapped
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Old Man and the Sea
Kon Tiki
Robinson Crusoe
A High Wind in Jamaica
The Pearl
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
John Dollar . I highly recommend this ...
... that they are our greatest writers.
Some choices:
The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying for faulkner
The Old Man and the Sea and the Short Stories by Hemingway
The Ambassadors, The Americans, The Golden Bowl, and Daisy miller for Henry James
The Tell-T ...
... long book that I want to read. So, I need to catch up there. I am not sure what I want to read next. I was going to read The Old Man and the Sea , but I let someone borrow it! Maybe I will read Woodbrook or Get Shorty. If I don't start until October, then I will go with one of my October ...
I read The Old Man and the Sea , my first Hemingway! Who read The Shining?
Ok, no Amerika. But someone must have read The Old Man and the Sea .
... >Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman -- also light and funny, involves anti-Semitism at a summer inn in the 1960s
... when I read it earlier this year, and The Sun Also Rises wasn't all that bad either. And I absolutely refuse to read Old Man and the Sea after my younger brother complained so bitterly about it when he had to read it in h.s. :)
Hemingway seems to be catching a lot of flack. Fair enough, although I didn't mind The Old Man and the Sea . My most hated was Portrait of Dorian Gray...deathly boring. It dragged forever. Although I did choose it for school which may have increased my dislike for it. Catcher in the Rye ...
Yesterday and today I read The Old Man and the Sea , which I can't believe I never read in school. Next up is A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (touchstone not loading).
... target="_blank"> The Old Man and the Sea - review
From my review: When reviewing a classic like The Old Man and the Sea , ...
The Old Man and The Sea . B-O-R-I-N-G.
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
... Dying is a different matter entirely, of course. That really is a professional league read.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea , et alii can be read more quickly, I suppose, but can they be read as deeply? That was not my experience of those two books, but I ask the question ...
... list, I think that I might need some of them:
1. The Great Gatsby (Read)
2. Alias Grace
3. Oliver Twist
4. The Old Man and the Sea
5. Invisible Man
6. Beloved (Read)
7. Frankenstein
8. Dracula
9. Get Shorty
10. Dangerous Liasons
11. The Count of Monte Cristo
...
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
How to breathe underwater by Julie Orringer
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
... think? I am talking collectors with deep pocket books, not people like me. A lot of Sinclair Lewis's work, Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea were first serialized in magazines but the magazines are all but worthless. My favorite though is Robert Crais The Monkeys Raincoat, it was a ...
#50! The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. This captivatingly simple narrative reveals the inner strength of the old Cuban fisherman, Santiago, who draws on all his reserves in his striving to fulfil what he believes he was born to do. His esteem for the fish he is about to kill is ...
... Some of his works include The Sun Also Rises, True at First Light, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea ....
Sometimes you must go to extremes to grab a touchstone and still it doesn't work!
I concur that The Old Man and the Sea was terrible. Personally, I find Hemingway totally overrated in general. My literary nightmare in high school - the recurring nightmare others described - was Great Expectations. I hated it the first time, and hated it more the second time I had to read ...
Message 1: The two book are nothing alike. Also, I liked Life of Pi much better than The Old Man and the Sea .
Message 2: The ending really is pretty good, but it isn't going to impress you if you didn't like the first fifty pages of the book.
-- M1001.
... that, they don't have that much in common. In my opinion at least. So I wouldn't give up on Life of Pi because you hated The Old Man and the Sea . You may still not like it, but I wouldn't toss it aside just because of that comparison.
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My town used Life of Pi as it's One City, One Book book. I got a copy, read the back cover (in which is was compared to Old Man and the Sea , which I hated) and I think that turned me off the book. I started it, but kept thinking "If this is a man in a boat book, no thank you." I couldn't ...
... to the equally popular pursuit of fishing. There are countless novels and films featuring fishermen, from the crusty Old Man and the Sea types to the refined fly fishermen of A River Runs Through It. Why is birding so unattractive to authors and producers? The UK's major bird ...
... to me more.
I can still appreciated however how Hemingway pared down language in his writing style even if I think his Old Man and the Sea Christ symbolism is over the top.
But in reading for fun I can see how being able to appreciate literary style would not be enough to compensate for ...
... actually read what was assigned to me. Mostly because I did read the 8th grade assignements (Red Badge of Courage and The Old Man and the Sea ) and hated them so much that I pretty much just stopped. The only assigned books I remember reading after that were Shakespeare (because we read ...
... movies, Night of the Hunter).
Some might not think of Hemingway or Pynchon as too distinctively religious, but the Old Man and the Sea positively drips (sorry about that) with religious imagery. And I think Pynchon's books are generally inspired by the Hageesque.
Then there is the ...
... the Fury, The Reivers and As I lay Dying
Stories by Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea , and To have and Have Not
Beuty and Sadness
Lolita
Animal Farm and Burmese Days and Animal Farm
The Vendor of Sweets
Waiting for ...
Taking "sea" from your title, I'll go with The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway.
Finished Thursbitch and have embarked on a similarly short one, The Old Man and the Sea . I'm all about artificial number inflation this month!
... as well as some of her others. I love her descriptions of characters though, you just get drawn into their world.
12. The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
A classic of course, I'm not a huge fan of Hemingway's but this one is so short, who can resist?
13. Breath, Eyes, Memory ...
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-The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsu ...
On this date in 1953 Ernest Hemingway won a Pulitzer for The Old Man and the Sea .
Birthdays:
1715 Richard Graves
1940 Robin Cook
1941 George Will
Death Anniversaries:
1824 Joseph Joubert
1969 Osbert Sitwell
1973 Jane Bowles
... rath
Animal Farm (favorite)
La Peste
1984 (favorite)
The Grass is Singing (long ago)
Molloy
Malone meurt
The Old Man and the Sea (long ago)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (long ago)
Lasso rundt fru Luna (one of the most outstanding novels by a Norwegian author)
Lord of the ...
I just finished The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway I have run in a couple of Marathons in my lifetime and would love to do so again. This is a must read for any marathon runner.
The Garden Party only lasts part of a day. The Old Man and the Sea , possibly. The story is his fishing trip and I don't think it lasts more than a day.
-- M1001
... books that I received via TitleTrader a couple days ago:
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
the Dealth of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
... of Pi was our towns One City: One book selection a couple of years ago. I started reading it thinking "This is as bad as Old Man and the Sea . I flipped the book around and one of the reviewers compared it quite favorably to that novel. I couldn't make it any further.
... author pages not only by number of copies, but also by highest average rating. Which Hemingway book should I read first? The Old Man and the Sea , because everybody had to read it at high school, or A Moveable Feast, because the community collectively agrees that it's wonderful?
6. Hipster ...
... think them awful. True, I never read a lot of the books that a lot of other kids had to read like The Catcher in the Rye, The Old Man and the Sea and Of Mice and Men, but I'll get to those in due time. (I am highly appreciative of my high school's approach to teaching English at this moment.)
The Old Man and the Sea
Maeby's first movie was based on this book!
Remember GOB and the cats on the boat? :D
LET THERE BE LIFE!
#8 I agree, the second book I thought of after reading the first post in this thread was The old man and the sea . I had to read it for class in 8th grade and I was so mad when I finished it. I felt like I had just lost 2 hours of my life (thank goodness it was short!) All ...
Books with ocean, sea, coast, bay, gulf, harbor, including specific seas, oceans, etc., in the title.
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
The Sea Wolf Jack London
The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy
The Coast Starlight Hans Ostrom
Hurricane Bay Heather Graham
... is so full of questions, so deep, I don't even know where to start on my comments of it. It kind of felt like a mixture of The Old Man and the Sea and Lord of the Flies with religion thrown in to boot. I enjoyed the beginning a lot, learning about Pi's backgroud. I'm a Christian, and I've ...
I'd have to nominate The Old Man and the Sea (by Hemingway, naturally). Read it first at about 12 (didn't get it), again at about 15 (got it, I thought, but found it tedious and horrible), then again at 27 (finally actually got it and really liked it). Even though I hated it as a younger ...
... English Lit-Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and of course Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre).
Life of Pi is often compared to The Old Man and the Sea (however, dispising the second, I couldn't really get into the first).
I thought The Venetian's Wife was a good parallel to The Awakening.
The ...
... by Michael Shaara
Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A Light in the Window by Jan Karon
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
... short to deal with his convoluted prose.
My father, from whom I have inherited my bookworm tendencies, gave me a copy of The Old Man and the Sea for my 14th birthday in a sort of "read this, my son, then you will understand what it means to be a man" gesture. I read it in an afternoon and it ...
The Old Man and the Sea just could not keep my attention. Heart of Darkness and The Scarlett Letter were almost as tedious.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was also not my favorite read, and I can't say I didn't like the book at all because I did to an extent. I think it was just ...
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Watership Down
The Perfect Storm
Robinson Crusoe
The Old Man and the Sea
Kon-Tiki
Any of those catch your interest?
My wife and I did a cruise (Alaska) last summer. We brought (from home) too many books. Just bring one ...
Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
... of Terror by Patricia Edwards Clyne
6.Echo Park by Michael Connelly
7.Tenderness by Dorothy Garlock
8.The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
9.Skin Tight by Carl Hiiasen
10.The Beloved Scoundrel by Iris Johnson
11.White Satin by Iris Johanson
12.Hell ...
... into the mix.
Others that I read for the first time in the last 12 months: Grapes of Wrath, Sense and Sensibility, Old Man and the Sea , Mrs. Dalloway.
It's hard work playing catch-up! Good thing I love to read. I'll be retiring in October, so will have lots of good reading time!
We read The Old Man and the Sea in 7th grade and I HATED it. I've always loved reading, but there were quite a few books throughout Jr. and Sr. High that I couldn't bear to read. Being the smart kid I was I just scanned most of them and faked my way through.
I think my 5th and 6th grade ...
Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea ?
#58 The Old Man and the Sea ! The Old Man and the Sea ! The Old Man and the Sea !
OMG, I finally KNEW one! YIPPEE! (I was seriously getting a complex). LOL!
And now:
"First the colors."
Old Man and the Sea
If so (ifs and ifs and ifs):
Sing to me of a man, Muse, a man of twists and turns...
Also The Old Man and the Sea was recently made as an animated movie. http://www.amazon.com/Old-Man-Sea-Animated-IMAX/dp/B00080M2UI
The animation was so lovely, watching pieces of art. It's always been one of my favourite Hemingway stories and now I've got it on DVD too.
... by Frederick Forsyth? I haven't read this story, but someone mentioned it in another thread as a sort of retelling of The Old Man and the Sea . The book came out in 1983.
... short story collection No comebacks has one Hemmingway like story in it - his the emporer is a very good retelling of the old man and the sea . maybe you'll like his other work. It does tend to feature the sort of themes you mentioned.
If we talk classics, I think I want to add The Old Man and the Sea . Apologies to anyone who loves this book, but I felt bad for the fish. (Animal lover, through and through)
I'm afraid to mention the more recent book that I don't like, as I know there are some here who love it. I tried really ...
Interesting. I will refrain from commenting on the rest of your statement and just answer this: I had to read Old Man and the Sea as well as A Farewell to Arms. I did read some of his short stories. I can't recall the name as it has been over 25 years since I've read them but I know that ...
I just finished The Old Man and the Sea and it reminded me of a story I read 30-ish years ago with a very similar story about a man who accidentally hooks a huge manta ray. It is set in New England, I believe. It was in some sort of short story collection.
Any ideas?
I think it will be The Old Man and the Sea .
Re: #18 I felt the same way the first two times I read The Old Man and the Sea , in junior high and then in high school. I would never have re-read it except my boyfriend loves it, so I gave it another shot, and really liked it this time. For me, at least, being a little bit older and having ...
... Hemingway
41. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
42. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
43. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
44. Dispatches by Michael Herr
45. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
46. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
47. ...
... good enough to understand the real significance of this book...
Another book from the list I have never understood is The Old Man and the Sea . I read it when I was a high school student and I found it incredibly boring. A page after page about catching a huge fish... What...? The only good ...
... belong on the list.
There are books that I read a long time ago that I didn't like, but maybe didn't understand: the Old Man and the Sea and The Great Gatsby (I was soooo disappointed in that book).
And there are books I didn't like, but I know they have huge followings, so a lot ...
... One Book" program and I couldn't make it through the first few chapters. I should have know I'd hate it-it was compared to The Old Man and the Sea so many times. As a librarian, I constantly look back to that experiance to remind myself that book recommendations have to be made very carefully.
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... egut
7.Herzog Saul Bellow
8.A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
9.To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
10.The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
11.Animal Farm George Orwell
12. Cannery Row John Steinbeck
13.The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
14.A Fa ...
I made quick work of The Old Man and the Sea and The Penelopiad, so now I am starting Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier - a book that everyone seems to rave about!
71) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ( review )
Only four more books until I reach my goal!
(I will come back to edit the touchstones). =)
... by Howard Bahr - an interesting story about a Confederate solder who returns home to a big ole mess. Next up are The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and then The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood.
... Finn
The Glass Menagerie
To Kill a Mockingbird, (middleschool)
Billy Budd, Sailor
A Farewell to Arms
The Old Man and the Sea
The Great Gatsby
Winesburg Ohio
Cannery Row
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Macbeth
Henry V
Twelfth N ...
From Audible.com you can get Neil Gaiman reading his own Fragile Things...
And there's also The Old Man and the Sea read by Donald Sutherland...
Oooh, and there's Terry Pratchett's Mort read by Tony Robinson...
Basically Audible is the place to go for these sorts of ...
... cannot recommend it enough for shy guys confronted by romance and weird feelings that arise when Cupid snipes you. That and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway began my journey beyond teenagerdom.
42. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Can't believe I've never read this before. Hemingway is such a skilled storyteller. Beautiful prose, story of a simple man doing what he knows best, giving it his all, working with nature. I loved the respect he had for the sea, the fish, even ...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
... a yard sale for 5 bucks total:
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Sabine's Notebook by Nick ...
I, too had to read The Old Man and the Sea at that age and it turned me off of him for many years as well. Same with The Pearl for Steinbeck until I read East of Eden. Why did they pick those stories for children of that age to read?? Did they want to turn us off of good lit?? :)
... is my favorite book by him. It's the one he wanted to write and should have won another pulitzer for it.
1953 Pulitzer forThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway another book I had to read in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Turned me off to Hemmingwayfor 20 years until I read A ...
... between 13,000 and 40,000 words, or 60 to 130 pages. Some classic novellas:
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Are the word counts and page numbers correct? Does anyone know?
Is there still ...
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Harry Crews
3. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara.
4. Alice in Wonderland by
Lewis Carroll.
5. The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
6. A Candle in the Rain by
Andy Ray
7. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
8. Robinson Crusoe by Da ...
... Ernest Hemingway
This book has Redeemed Hemingway for me. They should have assigned this in class instead of the Old Man and the Sea or his short stories. I still can't tell if Hemingway is sexist and clueless about women or if it's just a trait of Robert Jordan, but I can now see ...
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
... ng)
Nausea (short book but very dense reading)
The Little Prince (Children's book)
The 13 Clocks (Children's book)
The Old Man and the Sea
In Watermelon Sugar (Short...and very strange...story)
The Atrocity Exhibition (Short...and even stranger...novel)
Watchmen (Graphic novel)
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... I don't think other people have mentioned:
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Little Prince
The Old Man and the Sea
The Stranger (not necessarily particularly easy to read though)
Perfume
The Wasp Factory (short, but not pleasant, not that that means I ...
I remember seeing Old Man and the Sea when I was a kid and being absolutely terrified when the sharks started attacking.
I remember reading The Old Man and the Sea when I was in junior high school (8th grade?). It may have been the first adult more current fiction that I ever read. We were given poster board on which to draw the story. I wish I would have saved that.
I see in my note about this, I left out ...
... has 40 owners (0) reviews. (Louisiana)
6. Giant by Edna Ferber has 99 owners and 1 review. (Texas)
7. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway has 3,847 owners and 39 reviews. We own. (fishing off of Cuba does describe this correctly)
8. The Gown of Glory by ...
... reviews (including the #1 besteller for that year, The Silver Chalice), 2 had only 1 review, 1 had 5, 1 had 9, 1 had 39 The Old Man and the Sea and 1 had 55, East of Eden. I know I'm tramping through the weeds.
I finished The Old Man and The Sea earlier this morning and now im halfway through Horace McCoy's They Shoot Horses, Dont They? which is one of the most savage books ive ever read.
... of the plot to someone I cant help but laugh because it is just so clever.
Now im about 45 pages into hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea . Ive never read it.
its a short one so i will probably start The Plot Against America or They Shoot Horses Dont They? by Horace Mccoy.
p ...
river of blue fire and sea of silver light by tad williams
the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
the years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson (the yellow river plays a large role)
absolution gap by alastair reynolds (an ocean world on which the ocean itself ...
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Edit: Oh, and I LIKED the following books:
Catcher In The Rye - seriously saved me in HS
1984
Lord of the Flies
The Old Man and The Sea
Of Mice and Men - still makes me cry
I just graduated from college, so I recall all these books very well. I think I liked them because I made ...
... - I recently read The Three Musketeers and was astonished to be hooked within one page! Fantastically good fun.
The Old Man and the Sea is very short, as is The 39 steps (only way to get the touchstone working!). I'd also try out Journey to the Centre of the Earth: I really ...
33. Satori in Paris-Jack Kerouac
34. Old Man and the Sea -Ernest Hemmingway
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Finished JPod by Douglas Coupland with mixed feelings; I think that i just don't 'get' Coupland. Now well into Lynd ...3. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Very extraordinary story, love it.
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... I went to Waterstones today and book addicted as I am I bought two new books: Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevski and The Old Man and the Sea by my favourite author Hemingway. I´m at work and bored so I´ll probably get back to you about the second one tonight...
the glass bead game by herman hesse
mountain of black glass by tad williams
the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
euclid's window by leonard mlodinow
mirror, window by jessica abel
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somehow that posted before i was done :|
... long on trivial parts that you only get to read one or two books in the whole semester.
On the other hand, having read The Old Man and the Sea and The Catcher in the Rye I would definitely say I would not want to read those books for a high school class. The only thing they have going for ...
... rushdie
children and politics by fred greenstein
the years of rice and salt by kim stanley robinson
the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway
... the notation of the whole book to the car ride back from an exhausting soccer tournament the day before it was due. ^^;;
The Old Man and the Sea
I'm just not a fan of Hemmingway. Period.
I know there were more but obviously I've taken the time to forget about them. I didn't grown and moan ...
Gee, I enjoyed reading The Old Man and the Sea in HS. I based one of my short story assignments on the book. I agree with everyone else about The Scarlet Letter though. What a painful read. It was probably great and edgy for it's time but far outdated now. There are other books that could ...
28. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
29. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Ordinary People was amazing. Maybe one of the best novels I've ever read.
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It's funny you should mention this, since a few weeks ago, South Park had an episode where the kids were forced to read The Old Man and the Sea and write a report about it over the weekend, but they paid off some Mexicans to do it instead. The Mexicans were very touched by Santiago's ...
The problem with The Old Man and the Sea is reading it in high school, 95% of the students can't relate to Santiago's experience of wrestling with a huge and overwhelming obstacle. I think the reader needs to have some real life experience under his/her belt before that book holds any meaning ...
I didn't like The Old Man and the Sea when I read it in high school, but re-read it recently and liked it. I liked The Pearl too, but I'm one of the few who likes Steinbeck.
I liked Ethan Frome (when I was a teenager) but I found it more of a horror novel - that's why I liked it. The ...
I enjoyed Lord of the Flies in high school, but I thought that the Old Man and the Sea was going to kill me. I couldn't believe anyone would print it and think they'd actually turn a profit. I wonder if I'd still hate it if I read it now.
Although I didn't read them as required school books, I was about your High School age when I read Tom Sawyer, old and the sea and Lord of the flies. Whilst they aren't on my list of alltime greats, they are definitely worthwhile books.
Cider with Rosie wasn't so good. Midnight fox I ...
I'd cast my vote for Tom Sawyer. In HS, this had to be the most groaned-about book. Although I'm also with you on The Old Man and the Sea .
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That just proves how vaied people's tastes are! I liked The Old Man and the Sea by Hemigway very much!
Have to agree to The Lovely Bones though, could not finish it.
... of favourites:
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene -- beautifully, satisfyingly sad.
The Great Gatsby, The Old Man and the Sea
Recently reread The Wind in the Willows -- particularly enjoyed Chapter 7 ("The Piper at the Gates of Dawn") describing the spiritual experience ...
... was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." The Old Man and the Sea
Just let me say right off the bat, it was a bike accident. Mick Harte Was Here
"Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in ...
22. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
23. Re-read "The Geriatric Fart and the Ocean"...errr...The Old Man and the Sea
Which, unlike when I read it in high school, I could see the complex weaving of the story through the tiny once mentioned details, (like the fact that Sa ...
... Recognitions by William Gaddis
69. Plumb Maurice Gee
70. Nothing Henry Green
71. The Go-Between L.P. Hartley
72. The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
73. The Echoing Grove Rosamond Lehmann
74. From the Terrace John O'Hara
75. East of Eden John Stenbeck
76. The Flint Anch ...
... Rhett Butler's People by Daniel McCaig
69) On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
70) The Year of Jubilo by Howard Bahr
71) The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
72) The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
73) Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
74) The Handmaid and the Carpenter by Elizabeth B ...
... up that term!) novels hover around 200-250 pages depending on the edition.
The Great Gatspy F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Franny and Zooey J.D. Salinger
Just ‘cos its short doesn’t mean it’s not intense.
PS: If you find you are ...
The old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway.
... This one when I found it in 1998 in the jumble of a Friends of the Library sale for 15 cents was at 91 pages compared to The Old Man and the Sea . It is about an elephant hunt, and elephants are one of my fascinations. I started it years ago, but I could not focus on it. This time was more ...
... a Lifetime movie. Seemed nice while I read it, but looking back on it, it's "meh."
Awful seems a bit extreme, though.
The Old Man and the Sea was a thorough waste of my time, however.
... Girls by Lori Lansens
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Remembering Blue by Connie May Fowler
The Sea by John Banville
Heiress of Water by Sandra Rodriguez Barron
The Old Man and the Sea would be the first book that I would recommend to fit the bill. Also Siddhartha by Hesse.
I also agree with the reader who mentioned Silk and Ocean Sea, as well as The Little Prince.
My wife and I share this account. My top 5 reads this year were:
The Sea by John Banville
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (reread)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
1776 by David McCullough
Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem
... and George
MY SPECIAL FAVOURITE: Simonetta Agnello Hornby, The Almond Picker
MY SHORTLIST: John Banville, The Sea ; Sebastian Barry, A Long, Long Way; J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man; E.L. Doctorow, The March; Kate Grenville, The Secret River; Kazuo Ishiguro, ...
... Eliot
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (movie)
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey Homer
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
Hamlet W ...
... Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest HemingwayDune - Frank Herbert
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... the years and always, ugh. (Can't go into more detail as I haven't read anything by him in awhile.)
I also didn't like Old Man and the Sea , but I do enjoy a lot of other Hemmingway.
... Liebhaber von Antonio Munoz Molina, Die schöne Schrift von Rafael Chirbes, Der alte Mann und das Meer (The Old Man and the Sea ) von Hemingway, Der Vorleser (The Reader) von Bernhard Schlink, The Lover von Marguerite Duras, Die Geschichte von der unbekannten In ...
... skill: for me, he communicates wonderfully without playing with language.
At the same time, I loved Cloud Atlas and The Sea for their cleverness with words.
terrybanker: if, as you say, Old Man and the Sea was not written to be appreciated by the young, why are so many jr high and high school students forced to read it?
I had to read it for the first time in 8th grade, and, as a 13 year old girl in landlocked Arizona with no interest in fishing, I ...
srharris19 I must agree with you! The year I had to read Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea , Steinbeck's The Pearl and Shane by Jack Shaefer was the worst. To me they will always be 3 of the most boring books ever. I have read alot of books and enjoy many classics but I will never ...
Interesting how often Hemingway is being cited here. I evaded The Old Man and the Sea in school somehow, but we did read The Sun Also Rises; I quite liked it. Then, more recently, I read For Whom the Bell Tolls and loathed it from beginning to end. It's been a couple of years since I ...
... you by saying it's fantasy -- although there can be a fine line separating the two. I really enjoyed Life of Pi. I read Old man and the Sea in high school but I can't say I enjoyed it especially.
One of my all-time favorites is The Lovely Bones which is certainly not non-fiction. I ...
Surprisingly, there seems to be a bit of a consensus here. The Old Man and The Sea is a pet hate of mine. Tess of the D`Urbervilles suffers from some very hackneyed literary effects - whatever mood Tess is in the weather and her surroundings miraculously compliment it - happy/sunny, depressed/ ...
... is not. Though I doubt it would ever happen, it is definitely realistic. If it were a fantasy then you'd also have to call The Old Man and the Sea fantasy. And countless other books that many would agree are classics.
I like a lot of Hemingway but the Old Man and the Sea is pretty bad. In the same mythic vein, however, Steinbeck's The Pearl is WAY worse!
Taking my time working through Proust, so I am also reading shorter novels at the same time. Just finished The Sea byJohn Banvilleand it left me with a strong feeling of disquiet about the protagonist. As a result I am not sure whether to read another Booker book The Accidental or a re-r ...
... it in school. The original never-ending tale. And I have never been able to warm up to Hemingway. When I had finished The Old Man and the Sea , I felt like I had been dragged all over the ocean.
The essay I wrote in 11th grade for Old Man and the Sea was the only one I got an A+ on that year but that didn't make the book any more interesting. BUT it was short.
The worst book I had to read in school was Ivanhoe. Even in the 680-page abridged version, every page was painful. But ...
I hated The Old Man and the Sea , but I also read it for my English class in freshman year of high school with a horrible teacher (he mispronounced the vocabulary words he was teaching us, among other things), so I have no doubt that I completely missed all of the key concepts and whatnot behind ...
Are there any classics, modern or otherwise, that you can't stand?
I really, really hated The Old Man and the Sea . I don't think Hemingway could have made it more unmoving. I didn't really like Lord of the Flies either.
I'm not the biggest Banville fan in the world, but I've read three or four of his novels, including The Sea , which I wound up enjoying very much. He's really a world-class stylist I think, even though his plotting can leave a bit to be desired now and then, but his gorgeous prose and his use ...
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The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Elderly, unlucky, but ever hopeful Cuban fisherman Santiago battles the fish of all fish alone in the Gulf Stream.
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