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The sun also rises

Fist Fun

18:05 / 25.01.02

Right, I have been thinking about it and that deffo is my favourite title. One line of pure poetry.
Anyone wanna share?

Darkside of the Moo

20:19 / 25.01.02

The title is fantastic,especially in comparison to it's original working title "FIESTA".I really like the play on words in the title,since the character was impotent,everything else rises except for little hemmingway..

I hated myself for actually enjoying the book,though nothing happened really...

I mean...Moo???

Fist Fun

12:24 / 27.01.02

Another favourite title "Women". Perfect, encapsulates so much.

alas

13:47 / 27.01.02

the god of small things.

i read that title, and--long before I read the book--thought 'damn, why didn't i think of that.' and i love the book.

Mystery Gypt

09:15 / 28.01.02

i'm trying to remember... and maybe its on the frontspiece to the book, but isn't "the sun also rises" a line from a psalm?

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

09:15 / 28.01.02

quote:Originally posted by Darkside of the Moo:
I hated myself for actually enjoying the book,though nothing happened really...

I know what you mean. When I was done, I couldn't figure out for the life of me why I liked it. I had the same experience with A Farwell to Arms.

My War Gone By, I Miss It So- that title made me read the book. Or maybe it was a combination of the title and the picture on the bookjacket of a soldier leaning against a tree, apparently weeping with another soldier looking on with a sad look on his face in the blurry backround. I thought "I'll bet there's an interesting story behind that picture". The book was okay.

alas

09:15 / 28.01.02

mystery g--the sun also rises is from ecclesiastes, Chapter 1, v. 5. Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he takes under the sun? One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever. . . .

Earth Abides I think is also the name of a novel, no?

Sax

09:15 / 28.01.02

I had a copy of The Sun Also Rises in my pocket when I ran the bulls in Pamplona in 1992.

How fucking pseudy is that?

gridley

19:03 / 28.01.02

"We Were Soldiers Once, and Young"

is a pretty snap title, I think.

grant

17:00 / 29.01.02

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is pretty good.

but

"Death is a Lonely Business" is even better. Ray Bradbury, semi-autobiographical mystery. Good book.

I also like the double meaning in "High Fidelity," but may be alone in that.

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