The Old Man and the Sea
Reviews
what an amazing read, full of philosophy and wisdom and insights about life and about time and challenges, reminded me a lot of aristotle’s philosophy of life, and concepts of happiness and peace and love for the self and confidence. truly truly amazing
not my cup of tea
Peculiar book that's incredibly boring but so page turning too.
The sea is such a cruel mistress and man is not meant to tame it.
Hemingway says absolutely nothing with this book and I find myself perplexed about what it makes me want to say, if anything at all.
A different reading experience.
Yeah there was some suffering but it’s not like he had to juggle unemployment and Fortnite in the same day. Smh this mf overreacting for clout.
lo leí en una hora, me rompió y arregló el alma en 160 páginas. Libro sobre la soledad y el no rendirse ante la adversidad, por más difícil que sea y por más vencido que te sientas. Hemingway poeta perdido te amo
My first Hemingway, it's pretty amazing the man can get a lot of story out of so few elements. An old man, his small boat at sea, and a big fish. It's nothing super exciting and yet he makes this short read a pretty high-stakes thrill. I recommend the book to everyone, I think it's a fun journey that despite the boring sound of being mostly a man's inner contemplations of his current situation and life. I enjoyed it a lot and intend to give it as a gift.
We had to read this for school this year. I didn't like it. I almost never like books that we have to read for school. But I just found this one boooring. Like, really, an entire book to describe how long it took to fish a damn fish. I understand that it's supposed to illustrate about, idk, perseverance, and stuff like that, but it was WAY too SLOW for my taste. So thank you. It was weird how he kept talking to his hands. It was like Gollum.
The Old Man and the Sea is much more than the story of a fisherman or an American-style hero. It is a fable about the process of individuation, with the wise old man, the ego fish, the sea mind and the divine child.
I have the softest spot for stories like this
read at 12am on sunday night class was literally the next morning in which a book can drag on for ages... and ages... and people go crazy and feesh and santa mango and a U h video! much better.
I loved this book. I thought it was brilliant. This is the first book I ever read of Hemingway and I am truly impressed and can't wait to read more of him.
about time i read this piece of hemingway’s. it’s so him and oh boy do i love that old man.
The Old Man and The Sea is meant to be simple and straightforward, devoid of any real symbolism; however, that doesn't mean there aren't underlying thoughts to be had with each chapter. The mundaneness allows for clear dynamicism in the characters, how they think and interact with each other. It would be foolish to expect a full blown novel with explicit detail from Hemingway. He expects you to muse and digest the simplicity.
My opinion of this book is more of a testament to Hemingway's significant influence on American literature: it reads like an archetypical American fiction. An engaging read, nevertheless, as the struggle between the old man and the obstacles he faces at sea and the old man's musings on aging are well described.
so i just read 128 pages about an old man...fishing for 3 days straight. that was so pointless, i would say.
Charles Scribner Jr. single handedly turns a five star book into a horrible experience by putting a spoiler that disclose the entire story in the foreword. I would love to give five but given the circumstances, I can‘t.
you should never go to the sea by yourself (yes, even though you're introvert and love to speak to yourself). (to the introverts out there, recommend this book to your extrovert friends)
I get it is metaphor, I get it inspired a generation of American writers, I get it got Pulitzer Prize, but it is bad! I don’t agree with the message and I don’t get his obsession with the DiMaggio guy! It got some good prose, and that’s it!
the first 3/4 of the book was a real slog and not my vibe at all - i was just continuously losing steam (not unlike the old man himself!). but the last little bit really SLAPS. overall i guess it’s worth the hype. excellent if you want to learn some boat / fishing vocabulary.
Stories about old people make my heart sad.
Very vivid but a little too slow for my taste
** spoiler alert ** i can’t believe he killed the fish.
Highlights
“Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.”
I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.
It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is
“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
‘I’d like to buy some [luck] if there's any place they sell it,’ he said.
The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are rcady.