The Old Man and the Sea

Riveting; created a sense of aloneness, frustration, confidence and courage, but even in the old man's flustered thinking, he was lucid and planning how to beat the ocean and the fish that lived and survived there.

I FEEL SORRY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE READ THIS BOOK AND RECEIVED NEITHER JOY NOR WISDOM FROM IT. I FINISHED IT FEELING NOT ONLY ENLIGHTENED BUT WITH A FEELING OF HAVING BEEN THERE.

It's a story about a man who goes out to sea and catches this huge marlin. I think that what the author was trying to tell us is that don't give on whatever you're doing, just keep on trying and if you miss try again. You will find yourself wiser everytime.

This book is one of the best of the twentieth century. It completely destroys convention, and surprises the reader at the same time. Written in a language so simple that a fourth-grader could understand, Hemingway conveys his true genius and mastery of his craft.

This is the story of an old fisherman told in the most simple yet descriptive and powerful language, a typical Hemingway style. The plot of the story is the most imaginative I have ever came across and though initially a bit slow, the story catches such a pace in the later half that it becomes impossible to keep this book down without finishing it. End of the story elevates this novel to such a height that very few other classics are able to attain. Is this novel symbolic ? Though Hemingway himself denied it, one can not help thinking that the characters in this novel represent something more universal than they appear to be.