Comments on: For Whom the Bell Tolls is overrated, and why McCain is probably the Manchurian Candidate

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ScanSnap S1500 — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:50:05 +0000

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By: ToWhomTheBellBores

ToWhomTheBellBores — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 07:52:53 +0000

This book is extremely boring. The dialogue could not be any more unremarkable. It is extremely repetitive and filled with redundancies. I thought that perhaps after a few chapters I would have adjusted to Hemingway’s painful narratives but by the halfway point, with all the yawning I did, enough tears had rolled down my cheeks to irrigate the Nile Delta. Eventually I decided to type in “To Whom The Bell Tolls”, confusing the novel with Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and found this site. Great review though, I have to admit, I only read the first two paragraphs, Hemingway’s tired me enough for the day.

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By: john

john — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:57:12 +0000

I saw the Farewell to Arms when I was ten years old. I will not read the novel at 75. The “discours indirect libre” is as archaic as the backlot settings of the film. Fooled me once,etc>

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:54:21 +0000

Hemingway *doesn’t* translate “usted” as “thou.” “Thou” is the English *informal* second-person pronoun, and it is a historical cognate of the “tu” that Hemingway translates it from. “Thou” is just Hemingway translating “tu.”

It still doesn’t work. Despite technically being informal (which is why Quakers still use it), “thou” feels archaic and pompous to most English speaker, which is exactly the opposite of what Hemingway is trying to convey with it. Basically, “thou” is another falsely over-literal translation, like “rare” from “raro.”