Has anyone read A Farewell To Arms and liked it?

Question

This book is getting on my nerves. I don't even care about how it ends, cuz she's crazy. They all are insane. Anyone have any input?

Answer 1

Welcome to the wonderful world of Ernest Hemingway. People either love him or hate him, but he was a trail blazer in his time

Answer 2

Hemingway is a hard read unless you have an elderly grandfather or parent who is there to help you relate. We are so far removed now days from his style and his way of viewing the world it isn't even funny and because of the lack of communication and understanding between the generations who found Hemingway compelling and interesting and the generation that would rather watch MTV... We are losing respect for a great author who wrote with a very specific style and its almost like you have to picture him sitting at his typewriter with a scotch and a Cuban in his villa in Cuba or his home in Ketchum to understand the way of a tragic, overly intelligent mind. Jack Kerouac is another great writer who is disappearing because of the culture divide. You almost have to be... (what's the word?)

Introspective... no, not right exactly... have to be, a reminiscent kind of person to enjoy him. Most teens and college students are not either of those things today and just wont get the whole introspective tragic writer thing that actually helps you appreciate the man and the work the man created from a troubled heart and a disturbed mind.

Answer 3

Hemingway was one of the best. He has such a style and ability to create characters that cause you to have some emotion about them, whether it's good or bad. A Farewell to Arms is usually assigned in high school, because it shows all of his literary devices (rain equals death, etc.) and from that you learn about how an author goes about setting a mood or defining a character. When you understand this, you can apply it to other authors and therefore have a more rewarding experience when you read. Maybe you don't like the book, but remember, it is based loosely on his own personal experience, he really had an interesting life and it comes through in everything he wrote.

Answer 4

Of the great writers of his day E. H. was undoubtedly the most macho, fun-loving and sadly, disturbed. If you read "A Farewell To Arms" from the perspective of this great author's psychi then you can appreciate the novel a bit more. He was a character among lesser lights.

Answer 5

Anyone? Hmph! Only about forty million people and that doesn't even include the three in Alabama.

Answer 6

It's an aquired taste.

Answer 7

that sucks its crappy