Ernest Hemingway; A Farewell to Arms

I never got on with Hemingway. Slow. Boring. About war and themes that didn't interest me.

But I re-read this book - A Farewell to Arms - and decided it was truly brilliant. Maybe I am older, maybe I have time to savour the nuances, maybe I have stopped speed reading. I don't know why, but this time the book read like poetry.

I didn't really like the main character - the narrator. But that doesn't matter. In the end, you get caught up with the story, with the relentless progress of the war and with the unfolding of the doomed love affair.

If you want to, you can read more about my thoughts about this book on the Shelfari Website (follow link on the right).