Review: 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway

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'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway, 251 pages - Instagram @c_reads_books

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The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a book that tells the story of a group of expatriates living in post–World War I Europe, who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona in Spain to vacation during a fiesta. The characters travel, drink, and date during the fiesta, while also observing the bullfights.

I fairly enjoyed this book. I liked reading about the characters’ experiences in Spain, yet I did not find the story to be very profound. Almost all of the characters seemed to be far too dramatic at times, which was not something I entirely loved. It was also fairly difficult to relate to some of the characters, which also made the story seem somewhat vain and fruitless to me. Despite the negatives though, I definitely did not dislike the book, as every now and then I do enjoy reading books where not much happens and the characters just kind of wander around aimlessly because I think it’s an interesting variation in novels. This book very much reminded me of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (most likely because both books were written in the 1920s by writers of the Lost Generation), yet I feel that I could relate more to the characters (at the very least Gatsby and Nick) in The Great Gatsby, as compared to The Sun Also Rises. However, in short, I would recommend this book if you like authors of that time period, or are just looking for a good quick read!