The Old Man and the Sea

This blog began as a school assignment, and here it continues as a...life assignment. The goal will be redirected to focusing on books, what you should read, need to read, shouldn't read, and all else sort of reads.

So let's begin with my favorite story of all time, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Go and read it, I don't care that it's 100 pages long or that the new season of Jersey Shore is on in only a few months and you can't commit to such a long-term book that is a little over a hundred pages. Read it, understand it. Hemingway's mastery is in simplicity, there are 2, really only 1, main characters. It is the Mona Lisa of books, perfection with words. Man can be destroyed but not defeated. I don't care who you are, this book is for you. I don't even like fishing, or really know much about it, but this story is about so much more than a man fishing in a tug boat.