Quick Book Reviews Blog

Ernest Hemingway was always known for the simplicity of his language and the meaning he was capable of putting into it. Though many people thought badly of him for it, it is novels like The Old Man and the Sea which make even his most tenacious detractors stand back in awe.  For those who haven’t heard of the novel yet, it tells the story of an old Cuban fisherman as he spends the day chasing a magnificent giant merlin down the Gulf Stream in hopes of bringing it back to his family. The whole story pretty much takes place throughout that day, and this means that if you are the type of person who cannot stand to read slow stories, then I recommend you skip on this.

Very few of us have managed to grow up without hearing the name Ernest Hemingway being thrown around, especially in high school. Regardless of whether you have come to love or hate him, you cannot deny the impact he had on American literature, nor can you deny that some of his books can be objectively described as timeless classics and masterpieces.  The Sun Also Rises is definitely one of them, and first published in 1926, it not only pushed literature forward, but it also had an impact on people as a whole. To give you a brief idea of what it’s about, The Sun Also Rises follows Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, a rather unusual couple that undertakes an odyssey of self-discovery around Europe, right after the end of the First World War.