God this fucking book was a slog, I cannot fathom why it's so fucking revered, I have never read a book more grating and arduous to get through
It has a war in it.
That's enough for me.
>>9775932
agree
>MUH WINE
The Iliad.
>here's a list of every ship that came to the Trojan war
>here's a list of all Troy's allies
>introduce a character with a page, whomever is on God mode at the time kills them on the next page, repeat for multiple chapters
>the weird as fuck sports chapter
The ending was good though.
>>9775932
Wow I just started reading this yesterday. 19 chapters in. Is it that bad?
For perspective, I've only read The Old Man and the Sea, and that was pretty good.
what a shit book
>>9775952
Agreed. It took me a month to read that shit and I don't even remember one thing.
>>9775932
That was the point tho m8, the mundanity of war is a central theme in all of Hemingway's war-related works.
>>9776334
You remember that sickass shield.
As a kid I read through most of the Left Behind series because I wanted to read about sick ass Demons killing heathens. I stopped around book seven when the Anti-christ was hanging out in a plane somewhere while the world went unburned.
1/10.
>>9776351
So the point of the book is large parts of it being terrible?
Not op but I'm almost done with it and every chapter involving Catherine is a fucking pain to read. It's just boring and uninteresting
>I love you
>I love you too dear
Repeated for whole fucking chapters. Like what the fuck
Stephen King's IT
1200 Pages of shit, no idea what the appeal of him is
Agreed. Reading this book has put me off Hemingway forever. An absolute drag and while I think I get the points he's trying to make, the time and effort is just not worth it.
>>9776025
this is truly the shittiest book of all time
its fucking easy to read. And its brilliant...
>>9775952
The Odyssey was a lot more memorable.
>>9775952
>Whomever
don't use this word if you don't know how.
>>9775932
For whom the bell tolls is so much worse though
The Poisonwood Bible
Feminist, liberal trash.