Loved itthe ending of that book is one of my favorite endings to a book ever. I think it's got to go alongside Dracula for me.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.
- ISBN:
- 9781909621428
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- 471 pages
Genres: historical fiction, classics
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Loved it
Loved itThat's the obvious masterpiece it's an possibly the best war novel I've ever read and portrays the horror and the absurdity of war and the contradictions of it. The last few pages of this book are probably my favorite pages in all of Hemingway it deserves the status it has in my opinion.