jakewelch • read

4/15/24-5/11/24 – Honestly this book was very good and well written but not for me. The way Hemingway captures the racing mind during love and fear and panic is amazing. I found myself spiraling with the characters and was alongside them as they plotted and wondered and carried out their missions. That said, I don’t think war is something I particularly care to read much about. It’s depressing and full of so much chaos and stupidity, blind obedience, cruelty. Hemingway captured that especially well, with characters feeling horrible after killing someone but suppressing it because it a necessity. I just don’t think I want to think too much about it. Because of this, I really slogged through this. I got caught for over a week on a single chapter because of how cyclical it was going into detail about random military operations.