For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of For Whom the Bell Tolls
Book Review: Deserves its Place in Literature
Summary: 5 Stars
Despite bpathrose's trenchant review and appreciation of great literature, this novel remains one of the finest novels of this century. Is our culture so corrupted by mediocrity that we can no longer recognize true, meaningful art? I believe that those that appreciate what is beautiful will embrace this book in the future as so many have in the past.Book Review: This is the most boring book i ever read, so i burned it up.
Summary: 5 Stars
I hate this book no one should ever have to read this book, that is my opinion and if you you dont like it i dont care. This is a bad book dont read it.Book Review: A powerful and insightful work.
Summary: 5 Stars
In FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS Hemingway again reveals how war affects the lives of the average citizen. The ones who are called on to fight and die in the war. The people who have no power in declaring the war and above all who don't want the war at all. The ones who are for the most part forgotten when it is over. A lot has been made over his unconventional and individual style but it is really Hemingway's experience that make his books important. He gives us a window into a time and place none will ever again visit and it is in this that we can begin to appreciate what war actually did to a country and it's people and why freedom is a precious commodity. Incidently, to quibble over why a character in a book of this stature would cut her hair is not only to miss the point of the work, but to not even try to find it. If you think you can do it better than Hemingway then write a couple of novels and we'll see if they become standards of American literature.Book Review: Brutal truth
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a story about how simultaneously precious and arbitrary life can be at the same time. Hemingway tells us through his work that ultimately, our brief moment in the sun is nothing more than a chance to do something special and worthwhile, and it is up to us to seize the moment or let it pass. For Whom the Bell Tolls reads far better than The Sun Also Rises, and even though the settings are completely different, I think the same themes about hard-edged valor come through in both. Feminist attempts to emasculate Hemingway (as in other reviews here) seem rather cynical and pointless to me. I enjoyed this book very much. Hemingway has some profound things to say about life. You may not find the bitter message politically correct, but the truth has a way of being enlightening even if unpopular.Book Review: Single best embodiment of the human spirits of love and life
Summary: 5 Stars
No single other book can express such raw emotion, such passion, such dignity, such human spirit, as Hemingway did in "For Whom The Bell Tolls". The main character (Robert Jordan) goes from being an unemotional advocate of war to hating it, hating the loss of life that springs from it. His lack of caring for life, caring for anything, is whirled around and manifested into a zest for life when Maria enters his world. Every detail, every single aspect of this book, is excellently wrought. From even the simplest descriptions of the land around the main characters, to the masterful sequences in which Jordan questions himself and his beliefs, this is a novel to be read again and again: and appreciated no less each time.