Blook Review: The Old Man and the Sea

Book Review: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

As I was reading through the last few pages of this book, it was impossible to hold back the tears. I don’t know who I was crying for more, the old man, the fish that he killed, the boy, my deceased father, or my own fate. I don’t know. I don’t know why, what or where exactly it was hurting except that it was really hurting.

There are good reasons why this poignant book won Hemingway the Nobel Prize in Literature although I am finding it hard to articulate those reasons. I wish I could be as eloquent with my word.

I had this book sitting on my bookshelf for many years and couldn’t read past the first few pages in my previous attempts. For all these years it was patiently waiting for me to age and be ready.

It will probably resonate with you most if you have ever felt defeated by life.

[It’s a novella, a very short book with less than 100 pages. Took me less than 3hrs in total of bed timing reading over three nights but much longer though to process all the emotions it stirred up as I drifted into sleep each night. Recommend to more mature readers.]