OK, I know what you’re thinking.  “Hemingway?  That’s a boring oldie-tyme book!  Why would I want to read that?”  Well I’ll tell you.  For Whom the Bell Tolls an kick ass story about an American  man on a mission to blow up a bridge during the Spanish Civil War.  It is written in Hemingway’s unflinchingly sparse prose and bounds along at an incredible clip to a pulse-pounding crescendo. The story is a heartwrencheng look at the horrors and insanity of war sprinkled with insight into the human condition, machine guns, sex, and bullfighting.  In short, read this book.  It’ll put hair on yer chest!