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Title: What's so interesting?
Review: The book is based on one fishing trip in the middle of nowhere with an old man and a giant marlin. The only inspiring thing about this book is the old man's ability to stay strong enough to capture the marlin. Other than that, this book was so, so boring. First of all, why didn't they just summarize those three days with a couple of pages. Instead, I was forced to read an endless amount of pages that seemed to get longer about him catching and losing his prize fish/trophy. What's the point? He was already poor, and now he's lost one of the most important things to happen to him. It was a lost phenomenon. I would have cryed and jumped off the boat if I had been the odl man. That's how depressing this book is. You can't help but feel sympathetic when you read this book. This book doesn't teach any morals or writing skills; it teaches us to avoid reading anything by Hemingway. Even though Hemingway was praised for this novella, I question "what is true literature."
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