I know this is considered as one of those classics that you must read at least once. Most of the people seems to like it, but for me, it didn't made any such impression on me that I would recommend it to anyone. I just didn't felt the connection with this book.

During the whole book, I was trying to figure out what's special in this? What is the hidden meaning that the author want to tell us? But I didn't found any. Rather, it was just a simple story of a fisherman and his quest to kill a big fish. The whole story was just this - fisherman trying to kill the fish and later on protecting the dead fish from the sharks.

There was neither a single quote that I would remember from this book. However, the things that I liked about the book are:
1) Its simple writing. It was easy to read and understand.
2) The relationship between the fisherman and the boy. the boy had a lot of understanding, love and respect for the fisherman, and fisherman also loved him.
3) The little conversations of the fisherman with himself and the fish when he was in sea.
4) The spirit of the fisherman to fight till end in those conditions.

However, I don't think that you will miss anything if you didn't read this. But again, its truly my opinion (and there are probably many people out there who will hate me for this :P), and there are people out there who can interpret different meanings from it and can enjoy it. But I couldn't.

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