The Sun Also Rises

by Earnest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel along the Camino de Santiago from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work" and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel.

Genres: Classics, Fiction

236 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2024

Reviews

[Reagan Dricken · Rating 4 out of 5]

Written well; the whoring around of Brett certainly gets old, but it’s necessary to help illustrate the endless search for fulfillment of those who don’t have God. All in all, a really good moral-mirror to remind us of the sinfulness that exists within all of us. Hang in for the first half and buckle up for the second.

[Tonya · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is about the 6th time I've read The Sun Also Rises. I always discover something new.

[Imelda Ojeda · Rating 5 out of 5]

What is left for a man to do after he has seen and experienced deep emotional and physical loss?

If YOLO was a book, this would be it! this book will transport you to the epicenter of the roaring twenties: Paris, Madrid, Pamplona, excessive drinking, partying, sex, bull fighting, friendships, love, and pain. What keeps people from behaving badly once they don’t have anything left to lose?

A Simply written but conceptually rich and meaningful novel in a post war world.

[Jee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hemingway’s diary entries through a situationship with a married woman and lashing out cash with other expat friends in Paris

[Pearson Nunnally · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although slow and at times leaving you eager for adventure that really doesn’t come, The Sun Also Rises immediately grabs your attention in a different way. Starting in the post WW1 world of expats in Paris, France, it immerses you into the front seat of disorderly friend group of party-going young Americans and Brits delving into the extravagance of 1920s-30s French culture. From drunken speakeasy arguments, to calm fishing in Spanish waters, to bearing witness to the insane world of bullfighting, you begin to find familiarity in these authors, painters, boxers and wives, seeing every flawed and humorous side of them.

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

While it took some acclimating, I finally did get used to the cut and dry prose delivered by Mr. Hemingway. While it is likely not a book I would pick up again, there were a myriad of details I could appreciate about it. Namely, the way I could tell what Hemingway was passionate about in life through Jake and his adventures. He writes about his passions in such romantic yet simplistic detail that it makes me also want to take up such hobbies as watching bull-fighting or fishing. All-in-all it was a little anticlimactic for me, but not at all a bad way to pass time.

[BarbB · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overrated in my opinion, but in its defense, this is a hundred years since publication. Interesting insight into the post WWI "lost generation". He conveys place well- I felt immersed in parts of their travels, especially Spain. It's a struggle to keep reading a book in which I don't like the characters. Left me feeling a bit empty in the end.

[Ricardo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would’ve given 2.5 if could

Positives
- Lots of great descriptive passages/scene setting

Negatives
- Stilted and at times tedious dialogue
- Really has not aged well - lots of racist and anti-semitic characters
- Felt bored at various points, particularly the parts set in Paris

[andi · Rating 4 out of 5]

returning to this book really connected me to my past self that had read it at 17 and marked the pages with notes. I found new things to love about this book with this go round. Much to be said about Hemingway but this is an excellent piece of writing that I will always love and return to.

[Jimmy Quintana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wish I could’ve enjoyed it. Think it’s bc so much dialogue and very anti climatic. I understand was written in observation of the looseness of the times. I respect it as an American classic but was not for me

[ainsley · Rating 3 out of 5]

i’ll give it a 3.5 stars. to understand what hemingway is trying to do here, you have to go on spotify and find the playlist titled “the sun also rises by ernest hemingway” and then everything will make sense. i promise.

[Sophia CC · Rating 4 out of 5]

Vivid adventure. A woman who treats men as men treat women.

[Rebecca Castillo · Rating 3 out of 5]

old man sure loved his slurs

[Ranette · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Old Man and the Sea is my favorite Hemingway story, but I don't care for this one.

[Rachael Spearman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read it in one day! 3.5⭐️

[Kelley Turk · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Burton Brandt · Rating 1 out of 5]

So… what?

I wouldn’t have kept reading this if it wasn’t Hemingway. I was confused and felt as though the same sentences were repeats sometimes 3 times in the same page. Just confused.

[Elise Boisvert]

DNF’d this book…. I loved Farewell to Arms and I thought I enjoyed Hemingway but I could not get through this one. Sad. Might try again another time

[Gray · Rating 2 out of 5]

it’s a bit like watching a train wreck. you don’t really want to keep watching but you do anyways.

[Katie Bakalar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Isn’t it pretty to think so 💔

[Christina Mason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly interesting to read despite having to infer 95% of what's happening in the book

[Bryan Hernandez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don’t save her. She don’t wanna be saved.

[Averie Gannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favourite book of all time.

[Cali · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really wanted to get into this, but have struggled the whole way through.