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For Whom The Books Are Written, They Are Written For Thee

Posted on April 12, 2017June 1, 2017 By Sister Rain

In honor of my ability to once again read my beloved books with the help of a Merlin LCD Electronic Magnifier, I am determined to read some Classic literature. The only books of this kind I remember being assigned to read in school were J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

I just finished Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and I will admit it was somewhat lost on me. I kept waiting for something to happen and some epiphany as to what all the fuss was about. I even googled that very question and further researched Hemingway on the internet. I felt disappointed in the book but also in myself. What was I missing?

In discussing it with a few people, they suggested that other novels by this legendary author are, in their opinions, better. Although I appreciate and trust their judgement, I may call it A Farewell to Ernest and move on to another writer on my list.

I had gotten The Sun Also Rises from my local library. More than halfway through the pages I found another patron’s checkout receipt, used as a bookmark. It was dated 10/25/16 and I wondered if that reader was a student on assignment, a Hemingway devotee or another “literary agent” on a mission to read the Classics. Whatever their reason, it made me happy to see this book had been borrowed last October. Because even if it wasn’t my glass of absinthe, I know that these books are a part of any avid reader’s history. Without Hemingway, Salinger, Wharton, Austen and Fitzgerald, there would be none of the books we read today. And that would be a horror the likes of a Stephen King novel.

 

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