The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” was probably one of the most successful meetings in my enormous 3 book club meeting history.
Even though the actual discussion probably took up about 45 minutes of the 3 or so hours we were there, it was a good 45 mins with some searching questions and some provocative answers.
It felt like how it ought to be – and I guess it was very much the kind of book one might expect to be discussed at a men’s book club.
Never-the-less, we talked about it and we talked good.
It has been suggested that readership was high because the book was only 80-something pages long – and I for one will admit that I probably dashed through the last 40 pages the night before we met, but hey I read the book so you can’t complain.
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