Moments of beautiful descriptive clarity among a group of constantly drunk friends exploring their relationships while witnessing the fiesta and bullfights in Spain.

I found this book boring. At one point I did not care if I finished it. I really had no interest in the characters in the book. It was very slow and could have ended far sooner than it did. I would not recommend this book.

This is a great bookclub book--not one i'd enjoy without really talking about it and figuring out together what it means. Many of us got great insight into the book by hashing it out at the meeting.

Written in a journalistic style and with a fairly slow start. The characters are from the lost generation after world war one and they flounder in the uncertain times. This novel captures the times well and yet entertains through the depressing hopelessness.

I've run across so many allusions to Hemingways' description of running the bulls in Pamplona that I was glad to finally ready the source. The book provided insight into the 1920s.

Ernest Hemingway does a great job at capturing European life. Love.

YUCK--I know Hemmingway was a master, but I couldn't finish this depressing saga of lost souls. How distructive and wasteful their lives were--continuous drinking and meaningless sex and struggling to find any comfort or meaning in the mixed up world they saw around them.

I have never given such a gloomy review for a book; for a classic no less! Our book club members all agreed; we could have done without reading this book. Considering we read The Paris Wife last month-we thought we would read one of Hemingway's works this month. Mistake. The Paris Wife was enough. The 2 books were extremely similar-with more detail in The Paris Wife. Even though we didn't like the book; I couldn't bring myself to NOT recommend it. Hey, it's a classic for a reason...and we certainly had fun discussing why!