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"Before you know it as the years go by, you're just like other people you have seen, with all those peculiar human ailments. Just another vehicle for temper and vanity and rashness and all the rest. Who wants it? Who needs it? These things occupy the place where a man's soul should be." -- Henderson the Rain King

Saturday, December 03, 2005

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Drum roll please. I have officially completed my 50 book challenge! Book #50 was Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls.

I'm sure this book has been throughly dissected by a million English-lit majors out there so I'll spare you my version. I will just say that this is one of those books that you pick up and know within the first few pages the ending ain't gonna be happy. From there it's pretty much turning each page wondering when the other shoe is going to drop. It's a great book though and I throughly enjoyed reading it.

On the back cover of the paperback version I have (Scribner Classics/Collier Edition 1986) there's a great synopsis that beats any desciption of a book I've ever read on a back cover. It reads as follows:

"Hemingway went to Spain in 1937 to cover the Civil War for the North American Newspaper Alliance. From his experiences he wrote this classic story of an American, Robert Jordan, who fought, loved and died with the anti-fascist guerrilas in the mountains of Spain."

That's it. If you ever need to do a book report on this book in less than 50 words it would be hard to beat that.

posted by Jamie at 11:04 PM