Negative Positive
Title: Dated, mundane, and journalistic.
Review: Considering myself reasonably well-read, but never having delved into Hemingway, I picked up "A Farewell to Arms." I was disappointed. As a 20th Century novel, it pales beside the works of Evelyn Waugh, Mikhail Bulgakov, Somerset Maugham and even John Barth. "A Farewell to Arms" has not withstood the test of time. It is shallow, dated, predictable and characters are not well-formed. For a much better novel on the World War I era, try Ford Madox Ford's "Parade's End."
Is the review positive or negative? 