Reviews

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

sea_su's review against another edition

1.0

After all he had to go through FOR ONE FISH, Santiago loses it to sharks because he's too far out at sea. Fuck this book, only read it because of English class.

intro_03's review against another edition

5.0

“İnsan məğlub edilmək üçün yaradılmayıb. İnsanı məhv etmək olar, amma ona qalib gəlmək olmaz”.

Gözəl əsərdir. Qocanın əzmi elə məktəb vaxtı bu kitabı oxuyanda çox təsirli gəlmişdi mənə. Həyatda ən azı bir dəfə oxunulması gərəkən bir kitabdır.

gwen_wfr's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense

5.0

probablyabigail's review against another edition

I'm not one to gender books but this but was far to male for me to want to finish. Also I know nothing about fishing nor do I care about it. I don't know why I picked this up to start with.

home_for_wayward_books's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.5

eva_chel's review against another edition

reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

fbroom's review against another edition

5.0

The story of an old man who goes out fishing after 84 days of no catch. He chases a big fish for days. He catches it and on the trip back to his hometown the sharks attacks and he losses all his possessions fighting the sharks. The sharks end up wining and eating most of his fish leaving only its skeleton and head. The man returns home with nothing.

angelsrgorgeous's review against another edition

5.0

Quiet. Rich. While the book could be interpreted in a myriad of ways, I found it to be a beautiful exploration of the separation of body and spirit. Hemingway simply puts into words some of the most delicate and unvoiced feelings about largely unspeakable things. I will definitely be reading more of his works in the future.

booksofgayle's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

3.0

i was told this would be like moby-dick if melville had an editor which is why i came over in the first place (moby-dick is the love of my life, im gonna try & fail in not letting it take over this review👍❤️) but that😤 was a shallow ass disrespectful claim to make!! mbd was a gay romcom in the body of an encyclopedic tome (which was beautiful, funny, & took surprisingly clear-sighted moral standpoints way ahead of its time)... meanwhile this was just slow-tv in book form🦥

i thought i must've missed hemingway's point so, as u do, i consulted wisecracks thug note summary and analysis. "But our boy don't quit. He gonna ghetto rig himself a shiv and keep stabbin dem haters."
turns out i didnt miss a thing (apart from the kind of vague biblical symbolism ppl will squeeze out from anything if they want it bad enough) - it rly was just about a stubborn old man going hard-core tunnel vision fishing.😌 which may sound exactly like captain Ahab lmao but trust me , I'd have a cup of tea with this old man; Ahab I'd be terrified of being even in the same room as. one is a cool granpa who calls all the sea creatures his friends and thinks the clouds look like ice cream, the other is a canonically insane black-flag villain who should be dragged back on land in a straitjacket(love him like a kitten though i do)
 

He looked across the sea and knew how alone he was now. But he could see the prisms in the deep dark water and the line stretching ahead and the strange undulation of the calm. The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.

midwifereading's review against another edition

5.0

Exquisite.

That's all I really have to say about it. After reading "The Sun Also Rises," I wasn't sure I'd be a Hemingway fan. This book, though.

Exquisite.