Yet Life has to do with the little information as well as regarding the subtle subtleties. Concerning the taxicab, concerning the stories of the personalities prior to as well as after as well as during the novels. That he does not restrict the novel to the tale he is telling is a possession that is forgotten.
At any type of factor you can follow a character off right into an additional network of complex as well as thoughtful tales. The audio book does not give Hemingway the justice his stories deserve. They are dull as well as monotonous to the point I was confused exactly how he was a celebrated author, after that I recognized it was the audiobook as well as the narrators misconception of Hemingway.
Read Hemingway with the persistant question: why are the details and also the small things in life a story unto its very own. Specifically in the context of a guy that has actually seen his close friends butchered and that himself has actually virtually been eliminated.
Life takes on an additional sort of appeal that movie critics can never know. Kennedy Library. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. Hemingway considered the extensive rewriting that he did to shape his first novel the most difficult job of his life.
Early drafts, deleted passages, and possible titles included in this new edition elucidate how the author achieved his first 4. Total views On Slideshare 0. From embeds 0. Number of embeds 0. Downloads 0. Shares 0.
Comments 0. Likes 0. You just clipped your first slide! Clipping is a handy way to collect important slides you want to go back to later. Now customize the name of a clipboard to store your clips. Visibility Others can see my Clipboard. Cancel Save. Exclusive 60 day trial to the world's largest digital library. Monotone and boooreing! The story is fantastic. Any additional comments? If you're a fan of Ernest Hemmingway, stick to the printed version of this book and try For Whom the Bell Tolls in audio version.
I'm sorry but William Hurt hurts this novel. He does fine with the dialogue passages which makes sense i guess as an actor, but his voice and bored rendition of the narrative passages is just plain poor. At times as he's reading it seemed that he was seeing the text for the first time, his emphasis and inflection is off all over the place. This is a great novel and I wish they would get the reading by Adams that Books on Tape had that I bought the cassettes of years ago. Much better reading.
Adams did many of EH's novels and did them well, and though then I may have wished for variety in voices, I'd take those now. Nice idea to have distinctive voices for EH, but you need some more dynamic readers, not ones that sound bored by the project. Donald Sutherland is a great actor, but a terrible reader of Old Man. People who unreservedly love William Hurt. What was one of the most memorable moments of The Sun Also Rises?
Giving up and turning the awful droning off. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of William Hurt? I cant stay awake through the "Hurt" I realize there are all different tastes and people prefer different narrational styles. However William Hurt to my ears is so painfully flat, droning, and lacking any real character depth in his narration as to make this book listenable.
I have had this book for over 6 months and have tried to listen to is many times without success. This is very rare for me to be unable to listen to a story especially a well written story due to the narrator. I have narrators I prefer not to listen to Scott Brick however I still managed to listen through a 40 hour book The Company multiple times in the years it has been in my library.
This book however is possibly the first time in my 15 years as an Audible subscriber I can't manage to finish to a book I purchased. Hell I doubt I have managed to stay awake through more than the first couple of hours. As for who to read this story, I would say Campbell Scott. He did a fantastic job on For Whom the Bell Tolls.
For me Campbell Scott just gets the Hemingway pacing, cool and tonality. What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment? Hugely disappointed by the monotone narration. Such a waste of a good story and a credit. Listen to the sample very carefully, It doesn't get any better and probably gets much worse. Would you consider the audio edition of The Sun Also Rises to be better than the print version?
William Hurt's bizarre phrasing of the narrative portions was a Major distraction. His rendering of Spanish and French accents was very good, but Bret's English accent was truly bizarre. The bullfights, beautifully, graphically, tragically described mirrored the encounters of the main characters, always coming closer to each other, to love or to fight, and then backing away, a tangled dance like that of matador and bull, dodging, feinting, charging and ending, not in death, but still with a sense of tragedy.
Not ever. I have been a long-time Audible customer and before that, Books on Tape. I have never written a review before, but was prompted to do so by the many scathing reviews of William Hurt's narration of this title. Let me just say, I strongly dissent -- and I say that as someone who is not a particular fan of Mr.
Hurt as an actor. This book is, at its heart, a vivid portrait of "The Lost Generation," devastated by The Great War; disillusioned by the United States they found at home after the war; and now broken and adrift in a fog of alcohol as they wander about Europe. To my ears, Mr. Hurt's narration captures this morally exhausted mindset perfectly.
He sounds world-weary, benumbed by all that has happened to him and his friends. Indeed, he seems exactly like I would expect Jake Barnes to sound if he were sitting across the bar at 2 AM, many empty bottles of wine sitting between us, as he tells me the story of his adventures with Lady Brett Ashley and the rest of his hard drinking, hard living crew.
For anyone who admires this classic novel -- or who wants to experience it as I suspect Hemingway would have intended -- I highly recommend this audible version.
And kudos to Mr. Hurt for truly bringing this tragic story to life in a way the mere reading the book never did for me. Narrator seems unmotivated by the story and so was I. Not sure why this is a classic. Maybe better in text. He was awful. I couldn't get past ch. Who was your favorite character and why? I don't have one. I only got through chapter one because William Hurt was awful at the reading.
He read so slow and deliberate; I couldn't stand it. I felt like he was reading to a Kindergartner. He read so slow and he enunciated too much. Even during dialogue, he didn't have any personality. If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Sun Also Rises? I don't know I wish there were another version with another reader.
This is possibly the best audio book I have ever listened to. William Hurt's narration is masterful bordering on dramatization but never losing touch with the classic Hemingway prose. This is one of those rare books that I did not want to end. It is altogether possible I will listen to it again simply because it was such a pleasure. Some snobs will call it simplistic but it works and, if you compare it with the writing in some modern best sellers, it is actually a great style.
If you want to learn about bullfights from someone who loved them, this is a great book. I have miss feelings about bullfights. It also paints a fantastic picture of the Spanish landscape. If anyone but Hurt had read it I think I'd have given up.
It's sexist and all the posturing and macho drinking just pretty dull. Empty people being empty, but a very good depiction of that. He can write. All very vivid. And the last line is so wonderful I forgave him for being Hemingway. The painful fall of a war-struck generation that has lost its path to the future, which really looks like our deprived, disorientated young generation.
Jake and Brett's true love is breathtaking. I long for a time when such things, and such people, are possible Thougherly enjoyed this adaptation. I was especially impressed with the narrators repertoire of accents, which seems to be an issue in some other reviews, but not for me. I felt like I was transported back to the s and really got a feel for the characters. A classic novel that stay forever.
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