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So beautiful. You really get a lot of Hemingway's lovely rambling prose mode here because he's not so much occupied with plot as much, the thoughts that occur while out in the bush. To pass time. To distract from the horrible barbarity of the act.

Young German shipbuilder visits his cousin, Joachim, at a sanitarium in the Swiss Alps. On his first morning is disturbed to hear two people in the room next door having sex loudly. Goes on walk. Encounters italian man who very crudely ogles young peasant girl. Goes to breakfast. Is served by a dwarf employed by the sanitarium. Joachim "shrugs indifferently with brows and shoulders, as though to say, what of it?"

God, this is bad. Andy Weir writes like a 12 year old. Yeah, sure. Lets spend five pages solving math problems that is so interesting. Muscling through this shitty piece of pop fiction so that i can watch the Ryan Gosling movie. The things we do for love.

Great. Pretty surface-level as of yet. But offers a very subtle commentary on shakespearean themes, for those in the know.