The Sun Also Rises
I first read Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises my freshman year of college. It was part of a class on modernism and modernity, which also included novels like Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier , Virginia Wolf's Mrs. Dalloway , and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot . I remember The Sun Also Rises being my favorite of the books I read for that class, but looking back I'm wondering if that's just because it was more straightforward than the others. Between taking 18 credits and adjusting to college, I didn't really have a lot of time for digesting books. And The Sun Also Rises can be enjoyed entirely for what's on the surface. This book doesn't make you work too hard. While you certainly can find lots of depth and symbolism, you can also just enjoy a story about a group of friends going on vacation. They fish, they watch the running of the bulls, they stay drunk for a week. And sure, there's some profound stuff about the Lost ...