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I read this book on the recommendation of my friend Joe, who had read it a long time ago. I loved it. My friend Joe reread it and he thought it was too depressing, but I didn't. It's about an old man in Cuba who goes out fishing and gets the catch of a lifetime. It takes many pages for the old man to catch the fish. Hemingway gives lots of detail about all the poor old man goes through. Catching the fish almost kills the old man, and in the end his spirit is almost broken--but not quite. Whether he returns to town a hero or not is up to the reader, and that's why I like this book.