DNF Review: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Challenges: Bingo Board 2017: Read For Whom the Bell Tolls Around the Year in 52 Books: A banned book Me and Ernest just don’t get along. I feel like I’ve read or tried to read a bunch of his stuff, but it just isn’t for me. I put this book on my bingo board because I’ve been wanting to give him a second chance to woe me, seeing as he is considered a great writer of classic books. But no dice. I still didn’t like his writing… This book is about the Spanish civil war era and we follow a young idealistic American who has come to fight with the republicans. He is a dynamite expert (I’m sure there’s a fancy name for that?) and he is sent into the mountains to meet a small group of rebels who will help him blow up a bridge in preparation for a battle that is being planned. He meets the rebels and honestly that’s as far as I got. I just could not stand the writing style. The dialogue was incredibly stilted and formal going something like this: I...