Friday, August 21, 2009

A Farewell to Arms

i just finished the book A Farewell to Arms and i thought it was an excellent book. i chose this book because my dad really enjoys reading Ernest Hemingway and he wanted me to read some books by him. previously, i had read The Old Man and The Sea and thought it was a great book. after i read that book i became very interested in Hemingway and wanted to read more from him. this is only the second book that i have read written by Hemingway, but i plan to read more books by him. i also chose to read this book because it was set during world war 1 and i am very interested that. i really liked how he wrote thee story in the first person because it made me feel much more involved in the story and made me feel like i had done those things. it was also very neat how he based the character on himself when he was young. in the story, the main character was an American who was an ambulance driver for the Italians in World War 1. the real Ernest Hemingway was also an ambulance driver for the Italians in World War 1. i really like how he did that because it makes the story much more realistic because it was written by somebody who has experienced those things. i would recommend this book because it is really well written and very entertaining.

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