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Recently finished reading this one to my kids. They loved it. I loved it. Hemingway's prose is so deceptively simple and lucid, and yet immensely powerful. Santiago's determination and will to survive and win, in spite of, because of, his grueling and difficult life was one of the most moving portraits of old age and "not going gently into that good night" that I have ever encountered. And the boy's love for him was luminous. They don't make books like this anymore.