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Title: overrated
Review: I'm consistently amazed at how revered Hemingway is, and at his status in American Literature. I've read three of his books and have never cared about a single character. In this novel especially, I find the dialogue wooden and tedious, often extending to lines of blunt interchanges with no hint at the way words are expressed or received. I don't expect a character to be handed to me neatly analysed and labelled on a plate, but some key focal points from which the reader can form an interpretation are essential in creating a relationship with that character. I find the central characters in this novel impossible to visualise.There are many more subtle and dramatic war/ anti-war novels, and countless better love stories.I just don't get it!
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