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For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

Start date: November 1, 2017

Finish date: November 30, 2017

Why we're reading this: New School Classic Group Read November 2017
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Feb 13, 2008 Laura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary-fiction, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, banned-books, book-and-movie, nobel-prize

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia.

A movie was made based on this book For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) with Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff. ...more

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Feb 16, 2014 Sandy rated it did not like it

This book defeated me. I got about half way through and finally gave up, beyond boring. I found the dialogue stilted and uninteresting. I know Hemingway is known for economizing, which I don't have a problem with but it was just downright boring!! ...more

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Jun 11, 2013 Kai Coates rated it it was ok

Shelves: group-bookish, s14-bookish-challenge

Robert Jordan is an American volunteer fighting in the Spanish Civil War. He has been given the job of blowing a bridge in four days time with the help of a guerilla band living in the mountains. Exciting stuff - yes? No. I am usually a huge fan of Hemingway, and I was kind of saving this book as one I was guaranteed to love. Unfortunately, I quickly became tired of the methodical and repetitive language, not to mention the "rope-soled shoes." Some portions of the book are truly excellent (Pilar ...more

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