For Whom the Bell Tolls

jacob_longini shared a tip "Once again, Hemingway complicates a story of war with elements of friendship, love, and nature to capture the essence of man's responsibility to the world, mankind, and himself. Although A Farewell to Arms is perhaps the slightly superior work, all the elements that make it one of Hemingway's masterpieces are present in this novel as well. He experiments with tone and diction to relay the different languages spoken by the characters, all while keeping the dialogue accessible to the English reader. In the modernist techniques of stream-of-consciousness and quickly shifting perspectives, one feels in tune with the emotions of each player in the narrative. The characters live on with the reader long after the final page. After closing the book, we limp through the pain of our broken leg,  mourn the deaths of our comrades in battle, and feel our "heart[s] beating against the pine needle floor of the forest.""

ryan_dix shared a tip "Quintessential Hemingway. Slow, sets the scene, develops the character, builds the plot, then breaks your heart in 75 directions as it closes, and leaves thinking for days."