Please tell me this book is at least better than a farewell to

>>8469105
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>anglo-saxon dudebro
>good

Pick one.

Haven't read Farewell, but that's a great novel anyway. Read it op.

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>>8469105

"For Whom the Bell Tolls" is better than "Farewell to Arms". While all of the Hemingway books I've read revolve around futility and are therefore bleak, I'd place this one as second to "The Old Man and the Sea" in quality.

If you don't want to be bummed, don't read Hemingway.

>>8469297
I though Farewell was slightly better that For Whom the Bell Tolls.

Latter is great though and has some action and adventure.

But Old Man and the Sea and Snows of Kilimanjaro are probably his absolute best. And Indian Camp.

>>8469169
Does it have more than 30 pages of something actually fucking happening and not have 200+ pages of retarded dialogue and scenes explaining food and wine? If that's a yes then it's gonna be better than farewell

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>>8469440

>I though Farewell was slightly better that For Whom the Bell Tolls.

To each his own. For me, I felt "Farewell" tried to do too much and was repetitive. The major theme of the book is disillusionment: with adventuring, with loyalty, with love. In the end, I felt the protagonist was exposed as a coward because the romantic war he imagined didn't turn out like he wanted.

"Tolls" again features a foreign adventurer ideologue but it stays focused on the contrast of the ideal being fought for versus the reality of whom he has to fight alongside. I think this made the story tighter and the message had a stronger punch. In the end, the protagonist kept his honor despite having realized that the cause had failed and his effort was futile.

>>8469587
I see what you mean about it being repetitive. I think that's why I like Hemmingway's short stories best.

I should read FWTBT again since it's been fucking years.