The Sun Also Rises
Book Review - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway at the Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain
When I traveled to Paris, a friend of mine suggested that I take a copy of A Moveable Feast with me to read while I was there. It was the single best reading experience of my life. I will never forget the feeling I had when I sat at the Tuileries Garden reading that book. I had the opportunity to read A Moveable Feast again years later and I worried that I wouldn’t like the book as much, reading it outside of Paris. But I was wrong. So when we decided to travel to Spain, I knew I had to bring another Ernest Hemingway book with me. I chose The Sun Also Rises which is considered one of his first masterpieces.
Reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway at the Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain
I liked that it was a story about a group of friends traveling from Paris to Spain, a nice transition from the first book I’d read by Ernest Hemingway. If you haven’t read The Sun Also Rises, this group of friends, centered mostly around Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, travels to Spain to see the running of the bulls. They mention several towns I visited including Madrid and San Sebastian. In fact San Sebastian is mentioned quite a bit, so we took photos of this book at our hotel, the Maria Cristina, while visiting San Sebastian.
Reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway at the Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain
Writing a review of an American classic is difficult. Am I going to be the one person in the world who didn’t love what is widely considered a masterpiece? I LOVED, really really really LOVED A Moveable Feast. I was hoping for the same strong reaction to The Sun Also Rises. Although I enjoyed reading this book and I thought Hemingway’s descriptions of the running of the bulls and the bull fights were quite elegant (and this is coming from someone who hates to see animals in pain) for me, it fell short of A Moveable Feast.
Reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway at the Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain
Reading The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway at the Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, Spain
