The Sun Also Rises

This was my first Hemingway (and his first novel), and there might be others of his works that suit me better. I know he won a Pulitzer and a Nobel prize, so maybe I should try some other books, but I wasn't enamored by The Sun Also Rises. I understood why Rory Gilmore calls him “the painful Ernest Hemingway” in an episode of Gilmore Girls. The writing is sparse and the plot is twisted and absurd. I did like it more as it went on, and I'm sure it is a good book for parsing for themes in a literature class, but it wasn't a book for me in casual reading.