The Old Man and the Sea: The Hemingway Library Edition

So HemingwaySo much truthBrilliantly written. Moving, deep, and ordinary.Everything in the details.The world is his oyster.

This tale is soulfully told in the old man’s words. He is a strong characters who are with wise sentiments. One can feel the old man’s heartbreak as he relates what is happening. A wonderful classic that should be read by everyone at least once.

I knew nothing about sport fishing for the super sized giants of the ocean. Especially nothing about fishing alone at sea in a small boat. I now know enough to be glad I wasn’t born a fisher! Good reading.

Some moments are hard read, you feel like you're right there! Well written, so descriptive. All the relationships were ponient, especially with the boy.

If you are over 50, your perspective of the book is totally different that a teenager. Life is about trial and tribulations and those who endure or give up.

Call me old-fashioned for a book. I prefer reading on hardcover rather than an e-book. The book is excellent.

It was okay kinda repeative but that is just because you can only describe tuging and reel in a fishing pole in only so many ways, but It gets really good in the last 20 pages .weird ending but also poetic with meaning.

Of course it’s Hemingway. So it is a marvelous story. Told the way that Hemingway tells all of his stories. Simple clear sentences one right after the other in a staccato format. Such a sad story. But without the battle with the sharks, it would not have been as interesting.

Unlike so many of the classics where it seems the author has the need to fill pages with so much detail and descriptions of characters and surroundings often to the point of being superfluous,this one is the Dragnet of novels, just the facts. By the words and actions of the characters, the reader can, almost by nature, imagine what they look like and arrive at conclusions regarding their qualities and faults. The reader is drawn into the struggle while trying to reconcile the coexistence of such victory and such defeat.

Great book.

A well-known classic.

This is a great gift for anyone. Easy read by Ernest Hemingway.

This book is large, like a coloring book. There is copywrite and there are no page numbers. Bu t it is the book. It is a short story, so it wasnt much of a problem. I am not sure I would purchase this format again.

Very easy to read and enjoyable. A great telling of a story about a man and his struggle at sea.

I finally caught up on my high school home from close to 30 years ago . Such a great read .

My dad started to read me this when I was a kid but we never made it to the end. It was short and sweet, I loved it. You feel every bit of this story, from beginning to end. You leave it feeling old, tired and satisfied. It might be perfect.

The Old Man And The Sea is a relatively short book but well worth reading even after watching both the 1958 and 1990 versions of the movie.

Santiago was once a great fisherman who took his young friend Manolin out fishing the first time when he was five years old. It seemed that he taught the young man the craft of fishing for the giant fish called the Americans called Marlins out of their small skiff. When the old man had been eighty days without a catch the boys parents made him got to help on another boat. Manolin loved the old man and still helped him carry his things back from his boat every day, and bought him food because the old man did not take good care of himself and he was poor.The old man was once a champion arm wrestler and he is fascinated by the heroes of American baseball and follows the teams closely. He is old, but his shoulders are strong and he knows his trade and has tricks that make him confident his losing streak will end.The old man was right, and a giant fish grabs on to one of his hooks. For a while, he played him carefully allowing the fish to tire himself out, but it goes on for days, and while he is fighting with this magnificent fish that he calls his brother, he does a great deal of cogitating and discussing life with himself.This is one of those classics that I think anyone with an ego can see themselves in, and I believe that is one of the reasons it is so loved. That and of course the masterful way the story was told. The first time I read this was in a tiny paperback novel that was dogeared by someone else who had loved it well. This copy came with pictures and editorials from his grandson, with notes about a real story of an old man who fought a real fish. Hemingway lived in Cuba and Bimini for much of his life, and enjoyed fishing the Gulf Stream himself. I tried to copy a couple of pictures from the book and hopefully they will take the same as any other highlight. Of course, this is a five star.

The Old Man and the Sea is a lovely and meaningful book. It has a lot of detail about fishing and being out in a small but adaquate boat. My late husband was a fisherman, so I understood some of the terminology. The Old Man was determined to catch a large Merlin and although sucessful, had problems returning to shore which he anticipated. The relationship between the Old Man and the young boy who worried about the Old Man being out to sea for an unusually long time, was very touching. The young boy was kind and caring and Hemingway makes a point of reminding all of us that the young often care about those that are older. The Old Man also proves that no matter what age we are, with determination and fortitude we endure.

This story by Ernest Hemingway is wonderful, but it's never a good idea to let family relatives write the Foreword or the Introduction. In the Foreword, written by son Patrick Hemingway, the second sentence says, "What I think he meant by that is there is so much that we do not know." No worthy editor would have ever let a poorly written sentence like that find its way into a Hemingway book, except it was written by his son. Then grandson Sean Hemingway gave away the book's plot on page XV in the Introduction. That left me annoyed while reading this book, because I was waiting to get to that part Sean gave away. Thank you, Sean. I'm sure the editor wasn't allowed to touch that part of the book either, but family ties prevailed. Other than those minor annoyances, I found the story very interesting. I just wish relatives wouldn't be permitted to write in a world-class author's book. There was only one Hemingway.