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Title: what's all the fuss about?
Review: the two most boring "lovers" ever written. a complete absence of passion/feeling. totally flat characterization. "dialogue" that would embarrass a budding high school author. what on earth did either see in the other (would ANYONE else be attracted to either of these cardboard images?)WHY were they in love? how did it happen? the glowing praise of this "love among the ruins of war" escapes me entirely. who cares what happened to these two individuals?....give Hemingway credit for his geographic descriptions; on the other hand , it's not thought to be a "travel" novel.Greatly over-rated, and as Harold Bloom has noted elsewhere, Hemingway's novels (as opposed to his short stories) are coming to be seen as period pieces, not enduring literature. that's even generous for this book.
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