Mixed
the novel has the kind of horrible terrible flows that hemingway's fiction clearly has his fiction is problematic i think at this time in history we can all agree on that but i do believe that if you can cope with that if you can look past it and you can turn it into part of your reading experience something that makes you indignant and that you dislike but that is constructive in its ugliness then there is much to be appreciated potentially in this picture of the paradoxes of our society and of those social mechanisms that make it so that violence inevitably only generates more violence and misery drags people down with it and generates more misery