Earnest Hemmingway does an excellent job of making the charcters seem like your friends. You can actually feel what the characters are going through. You are given the basis of what war is like, yet you also get the feel of love mixed into the novel.

A Farewell to arms is perhaps the greatest of all Hemingway works. In this novel, Hemingway rose his forever-unchanged theme:war and love to a high place:from the way of writing ,Hemingway showed his special writing style incisively and vividly in this novel. This novel portrayed the farewell both to war, which condemned as purposeless slaughter and a farewell to love, which prove short-lived. I think this novel is very realistcal and touching.

We all could learn something from Hemingway... Do we want to hang on to bitterness and unforgiveness or find that true love of a life time..and live and love and be loved...or never really love because of hurt and anger...

Hemingway grabs the attention of all his audiences by writing with matters of the heart. The love affair between a an ambulance driver and the work driven nurse is almost like a romantic poem that dances in the readers' mind. The characters aren't complex so it makes it easier enjoy the pure romance put against the backdrop of the turmoil or World War I. The night that the driver and Catherine spent in the hotel was simply set in a sort room that had a feeling of the old love that would be found between Rett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. The vivid images of a foom furnished in plush red sets the mood. The diolauge is short but sweet, very meaningful. I particularly liked the way the characters found the romance to be a day by day thing. They absorbed as much as they could from each other, never taking the time they spent for granted. I don't want to give away the ending of this beautiful novel. I found myself bewildered and I believe the climax doesn't occur until the end. I was in a trance because I am a romantic and if you are blessed with a heart open to love stories, this story takes the cake, the wedding cake to be exact.

Hemmingway showed us love and trust in a time where these things weren't possible. He showed us that love was a powerful object and we cannot mock those who try to find happieness in the time of war.

Hemingway sure knows how to stir the soul! The love affair between the ambulance driver and his young nurse is at once magical and practical. There is total acceptance by both, and the backdrop of the story, WWI, seems to disappear from view as the true war between hearts takes over. I won't give out the ending, but it took me 3 hours to fall asleep once I finished this book! I know of no other writer who can pack such a wallop into his last page. I am at a loss for words

The author tries to do a number of things in this book: write about sailing, Cuba, Hemingway, and fulfilling lifelong dreams. It's a tall order, but he makes it work. He weaves the disparate elements well, while his sparce prose (like his literary idol Papa) and strong narrative drive take the reader on an easy, informative, and ultimately pleasureable armchair cruise.

Dave Schaefer had the urge to see Cuba and track down Hemingway's old haunters, and used his 32-foot sloop to sail from Berlington, Vermont south through the Champlain Canal to the Hudson, the Keys, and beyond. This armchair read will delight any with an interest in sailing experiences.

I recommend this book to people curious about Hemingway, Cuba and the perils of navigating the inland waterway. Schaefer succeds by capturing both the hard truths and the enigmatic character of his three subjects--sailing, Hemingway and Cuba.

This is an absorbing and worthwhile study of Hadley's life, but after she and Hemingway break up, Diliberto doesn't have much to say about Hadley. She sums up the rest of her life quite briefly, leaving the impression--one that I'm sure the author did not intend--that Hadley wasn't very interesting and didn't have much of a life aside from her time with Hemingway.

Diliberto has done a wonderful job as researcher and writer to bring this remarkable woman to life. I really felt the joy and pain of both her life and her long influence on Hemingway. One cannot really understand him, and his much criticized views and literary treatment of women, without knowing her. A can't-put-it-down read if you're interested in him and the first half of the 20th Century. By the way, she had a "second life" after Hemingway with the poet Paul Mowrer

"Cliffsnotes Hemingway's the Old Man and the Sea" are decent, but at times very long, but that is because of the detail. If you need to understand the symbolism, then these CliffsNotes are a must! As always, you should read the CliffsNotes AFTER you have read "The Old Man and the Sea." I recommmend.

I think that these cliff notes realy helped me in my report. They made everything clear when after I read the book. I bought a used edition and it was clean and nice. I really think that whoever needs cliff notes at a low price should come her to buy them!! Besides, this is a really good book!!

This cassette contains just the one short story. The story shows Hemingway at his best. The usual protagonists: a "damaged" man and a uni-dimensional woman. However, here he invests the man (who narrates the tale) with considerable insight into himself and into life. I liked the writing far more than "Farewell to Arms" for example, where nearly identical characters are protagonists.

Heston's reading is fairly good. Better than his reading of the "Old Man and the Sea" which I thought he really ruined. While good, his reading is not excellent (hence the 4 stars). He does not modulate his voice sufficiently between characters so it's difficult at times to know who's talking when.

Classic Hemingway. Great depth in describing the characters and the situation. Like his other works, it is not surprising that he received a Pulitzer.

Heston did justice to the characters in this audio book, just as he does in his screen acting. It was an enjoyable read during my long commute.

Hemingway fans will adore this book, but for anyone interested in literary and artistic Paris, this exceptional guidebook will also lead you to the haunts of such luminaries as James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, e. e. cummings, Sylvia Beach, Gertrude Stein and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Author Fitch includes a helpful introduction to Paris, followed by an insightful introduction to Hemingway's Paris. Seven self-guided tours contain detailed commentaries for each stop along the route. The best of the itineraries take you along the Seine, through the Latin Quarter and around the Luxemburg gardens, which are the most pleasant places to walk in Paris anyway. Even though it's easy to get lost in the maze of short and angled streets of Paris, clear, good-sized maps throughout the book keep you oriented. Nearly fifty black-and-white photographs, many of them historic, evoke the ambience of Paris in the 1920s. Photos include Sylvia Beach in her Shakespeare and Company bookstore; Scott, Zelda and Scottie Fitzgerald celebrating Christmas in their apartment on rue de Tilsitt; a wicked cartoon of James Joyce drawn by Fitzgerald in 1928; and, of course, Hemingway. A detailed index helps you find information about places and people.

After loosely following Tour Two through the Saint Germain neighborhood, my daughter Anne and I had morning coffee and pastries at the Cafe de Flore, Anne scribbling away in her journal. When I teasingly asked the waiter how Hemingway, and later the Existentialist writers who haunted the Cafe de Flore in the 40s and 50s, managed to get any writing done on the tiny, round tables barely large enough to hold a plate, he teased me back by pushing two of the tables together so I had plenty of room to pen my immortal postcards. But unless money is no object, it's too expensive to order much more than coffee at the famous Left Bank hangouts of Hemingway and his expatriate cohorts. On Rue de Buci and Rue de Abbaye in the Saint Germain neighborhood, close to Hemingway's Cafe de Flore and Les Deux Magots, you'll find less expensive, less pretentious cafes where you can order a great bowl of French onion soup.

After two important introductory chapters, the seven walks take the reader or tourist to every Hemingway (and Fitzgerald) site in Paris. These walks were tried/previewed by many classes of students at the American University of Paris. Although a few details date the book, it holds up today! The walks, by the way, include wonderful quotations from many of Hemingway's novels, short stories, and his memoir of Paris. Buy the book and come to Paris!!

This selection of short pieces is an excellent and substantial part of Hemingway's ouevre. Some of them are now considered as classics of the short story form, such as "The Short and Happy Life of Francis Macowber" and "The Killers" -- a story which took, it is said, three years for Hemingway to complete. A clever stylist of American Modernism, his work is characterised by the staccato, laconic, minimalist sentences and expressions, which create a superbly "real", as opposed to merely literary, effect. Later examples of his work show how he further experimented with this style, in an effort to endow language with greater powers of precision and clarity. Unfortunately, the result is sometimes stilted and clumsy, particularly in the dialogue. This collection is recommended for its inclusion of some of his finest short works. Others, such as "This is Friday" and "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" are not exactly literary gems, but the reader will be left to judge for him/herself.

A great anthology that could also be a primer on Hemingway. The beauty of this book is the access to Hemingway's work and personal timeline. You can see the writer at the height of his powers, you can see him hit his peaks and valleys. Similarly, you may notice Hemingway's sentiments changing from his green years to maturity.

This collection exhibits the best of Hemingway's storytelling, in his classics such as ...Francis Macombre, Snows of Kilimajaro. Up In Michigan, Big 2 Hearted River, his coming of age stories in the Nick Adams series, and a multitude of vignettes - some unfinished, though rarely overdone. Always present is Hemingway's commitment to evoking the sensual qualities of his surroundings and experiences - his reporter's instinct for capturing places and moments.

Ernest never uses his subjects to reach for higher truths. The immediacy of reality seems enough, if only he can capture it. Consistency is also seen throughout the stories in Hemingway's choice of characters - his breave, determined, cool and calm men and women, brief in speech but loud in actions. They dreams are muted by reality, beautifully subdued but resonant. Reading the stories, you can feel the writer grow, writing and revising, expanding and abridging. It is the style he cultivated in his stories that he perfected in his novels.

This collection of short stories defines what great short fiction is. Hemmingway constructs each story with total percision the way a genious archetect builds a perfect house, that is, with utter flawlessness. With a style of writing unique to only him, the great parisian pilgram, avid fisherman and chronicler of bullfighting gives us a timeless collection of literary gems.

I'm a big Hemingway fan, and have liked other volumes in this "Conversations with" series. But this book was a disappointment to me, and certainly the weakest volume of the ones I've read (Peter Taylor's is excellent, as is the one for Katherine Anne Porter). Unless you're a beginner with Hemingway, there's very little of interest here, except perhaps Hemingway's remark that he writes every novel as though he were going to die afterwards. A related volume, "The Only Thing That Counts" -- while a bit slower going, is more useful. Still, if you're a Hemingway fan, you'll probably want to read this anyway. I did.

A well selected collection of interviews with and news stories about the worldly author. Includes Hemingway's now famous 1958 interview with George Plimpton, as well as his speech to the American Writer's Congress and his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. Hemingway at his most candid and insightful.

Conversations With Ernest Hemingway is an amazing piece of liteary insight into the mind of the man who created the masterpieces. The converstions flow between the abstract and direct. His personal feelings to the world at the time of each one of his recored converstaions and correspondence allows a Hemingway fan to scale some of his sotries. The book includes conversations in opposing times. One conversation was taken just after the release of a novel and then the follow-up ten years later which of course by Hemingway's way, only became more in depth and heart felt. This is an excellent book for anyone who can appriciated having the mind of Hemingway portrayed by his own words.

Ernest Hemmingway's book The Old Man and the Sea is incredibly entertaining and full of vivid detail. Ernest uses very vivid detail to maintain the reader's interest. This is why I think that Hemmingway's book took the title of one of the best books ever written, and won the Pulitzer literature award.
Ernest uses very vivid detail in order to put a picture in the readers head and keep them interested in the story. In the Santiago is a very old and humble man who is a fisher and hasn't caught a fish in 84 days. Santiago gets his big break when he hooks a very large marlin and is pulled out to sea by this large fish, way out to sea. After Santiago is done tying the Marlin to his boat a shark picks up the scent of the blood and bites a chunk out of the fish only to die by Santiago's spear as Ernest explains this death and the death of the later sharks to come with much detail making this one of my favorite parts in the book.
Hemmingway has a very unique style and has a good way of grabbing the reader's attention. Ernest doesn't use very complicated confusing words, he uses some Cuban sayings that are hard to follow but don't leave you wondering because most of the time he explains what they mean later on in the book. It seems that Santiago wrote this book kind of depressed and not too happily, I think this is what gives Ernest a very different unique way of writing.
The Old Man and the Sea is entertaining and keeps your attention. Attention grabbers are one thing that Ernest did very well when he wrote this novel. He says attention grabbing things and once he gets you sucked in you just want to keep on reading.
Overall this book is entertaining and is worth reading, although it could get very slow at times the slow parts are even entertaining. Ernest made this book very easy to follow and understand and deserved to win the title of one of the best books ever written. So as for my opinion I think that this book is worth reading and is very entertaining and somewhat action packed.

This is a thrilling adventure book; it was entertaining throughout out the whole thing. This classic tail of an old man who sets out on a journey across the sea looking for fish to catch, to make his salary. As the book moves on he hooks the biggest fish he has ever seen finally getting a grasp on his line the fish starts to pull him out to see. After three days the old man is very weak and tired he has not had a break in three days when suddenly the fish gives in. He finally pulls the fish in and harpoons him, when the fish is dead he feels almost guilty for killing such an incredible fish but what done is done. He ties the fish to his boat and starts his long journey home around half way home the first two sharks hit the fish and he fights them off. The whole way back sharks keep eating at the fish and the old man keeps fighting them off. By the time he is home the fish is gone except for the head and skeleton. It was a great book love, fear and adventure if you are looking a short entertaining novel then read this book. One of my top favorites books of all time.

Ernest Hemmingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" is quite simply a perfect book. Just about everyone knows the story, (you certainly do if you are reading this review) so I will merely say that I have never read a work of fiction which so sharply displays emotion. The struggle for Santiago in this book is written so powerfully, that I am deeply moved when I come to the end. I personally loathe the idea of actually going fishing, but this book will forever give me the opportunity to do so in the recesses of my mentality, which suits me quite well indeed.