book: across the river and into the trees

A book written by Hemingway. This book is about an old man, war vetaran, who falls in love with a very young woman, and she falls in love with him as well, and they are both deeply in love. It is a story about the love of that these 2 share and its unfortunate occurance at this particular time in their lives because the old man is dieing slowly.

The book starts up very slowly, but then builds up gradually as the novel progresses until it reaches a point where you cannot even believe you are that involved with the story. Quite interesting. It does this through the emotions that it makes you feel for two characters. Actually, what makes the story interesting is that it is such an emotionally charged novel, that it makes you want to continue to feel these emotions, kind of like a "what am I going to be feeling next thing". One thing I did not particularly care for is the military background stuff, quite unneccessary, and I could have been left out and still have been as effective without it in the story.

A very solid read.

4/5

peacE!
-Roberth