Sunday, May 4, 2014

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

20th Century

I have wanted to read Hemingway for quite awhile and finally got around to it with For Whom the Bell Tolls.  It is not what I expected but I did enjoy it, even if it was slow moving at times.  It was rather gruesome in parts when Hemingway described the killing of the Fascists through a flogging line and some of the bull-fighting. (I've never understood bull fighting and why it continues today).  Found it humorous that Hemingway did not write cuss words but used the term "obscenity" instead.

Quotes: "Where the obscenity have you been?"

" 'You are a very hard woman' he told her. 'No ... but so simple I am very complicated' "

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