Read: The Old Man and the Sea
| Every other book I buy and read should be a classic; that's a rule of thumb I once started to apply on me, why exactly I really do not know: must be some kind of socialization. In advance I am not always happy with this self-regulation, but hardly did I regret afterwards to have read a classic, though.
Similar with this story. Looking for a light book, in terms of weight, not content, I found Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" in the shelf and took it simply because I did not want to wear a bag. Profanity at its best. I remembered how astonished I was when I bought the paperback edition, how thin it was since I expected this novel to be something to inflict injuries when hit on the head. But this short novel has a mere hundred pages, not reflecting the heaviness of mood in the story. The story is well-known, man fights fish, wins, or not at all. It is martial arts the Cuban way, I think. I liked the book quite a lot, it really has action without the fast-cut scenes that we suffer so much in our times. |
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