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For Whom the Bell Tolls

  • Writer: Kathy Miller
    Kathy Miller
  • Jan 10, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Aug 30, 2025

Ernest Hemingway, 1940

Date Read: 1/9/23




Apparently, I don't like Hemingway. This is the second of his novels I've read and I just didn't like it.


There's parts I did like. I like how the writing mimics Spanish in a way so you feel like you're reading it in the language they're speaking. He did a phenomenal job setting the scene and making the people seem real.


I don't like war and he writes war novels. This one is the Spanish Civil War when Franco took control. Brutality doesn't cover it.



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