3-star review from Amazon:Ernest Hemingway certainly knows how to write a tight, concise narrative novel with his Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Old Man & The Sea". This is what makes "The Old Man & The Sea" a great novel.
There seems to be quite a bit of religious inference going on inside this novel too. Sin is touched upon. The old man struggles to catch the fish (only to have a sad ending in the novel) and there are other scenes that eludes to the crucifixion of Christ.
I enjoyed reading this classic novel... But wouldn't rank Hemingway's writing style as one of my favorites.
Again, this is emblematic of the problems with user reviews. Someone takes a single literature course and then decides that they can apply their three months of study to anything and that everyone should be interested in their opinion. What opinion is even being expressed here? Good work, you notice some religious imagery in this novel and you enjoyed reading it. Well, then I guess your declaration that Hemingway's style isn't one your favorites is something that Harold Bloom should be noting.
If you don't have anything but an obvious observation, keep it to yourself.
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