Steinbeck, anyone?
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Steinbeck, anyone?
I read Of Mice and Men many years ago, and wasn't terribly impressed. Didn't read Steinbeck for years afterward. Then I read The Grapes of Wrath. Loved it. That inspired to me read East of Eden. I had seen the film with James Dean, but never read the book.
The film is actually only a section of the book (as is often the case). East of Eden is easily one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's incredibly well written, and the main antagonist is one of the most disturbing and fascinating characters you'll encounter in American literature. It's a book that stays with you after you've finished reading it. You won't soon forget it.
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I read "Grapes of Wrath" in high school and enjoyed it but wasn't overly impressed with it. A few years later one of my fellow English peers recommended that I read "East of Eden". She swore it was one of the best books that she had ever read. I couldn't believe it to be honest, I mean I had already read one book by Steinbeck and wasn't amazed and to add to that the story of "East of Eden" has a lot of religious context which I didn't think would interest me. I was wrong. So very, very (and gratefully) wrong.
"East of Eden" is one of my all time favorites. It's extraordinary. You want to slip inside all the characters, well maybe except for Cathy. This book has never left me and I do find that I think of it often when reading other material. I don't re-read books as a rule, but I'm thinking that I would like to re-read this one.
Glad I'm not the only one who adores "East of Eden"!
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Read East of Eden. It'll be one of your favorite books, I promise!TrishaAnn92 wrote:I read of Mice and Men a few months back and loved it! Eventually I intend to read more of his works.
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Maybe the age of the reader has something to do with the satisfaction of Steinbeck's novels. For me, he pit well the fight against the needs of the lower class with the greed of the upper middle class who would do little to show their appreciation for the needed back breaking workers who had nowhere else to go. For if you don't work, you don't eat.
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I totally get that that's what he was all about, and applaud him for speaking up. I just tend to be a character oriented reader (in fiction anyhow), and I never could really like his characters.hopeingod wrote:For me, he pit well the fight against the needs of the lower class with the greed of the upper middle class who would do little to show their appreciation for the needed back breaking workers who had nowhere else to go. For if you don't work, you don't eat.
Have you encountered Dougie Maclean's song, Rank and Roses? I'm sure it's on YouTube. It's about the perseverance of the class society in Scotland even today, and the younger generation putting an end to it.
We are our father's dreams.
We are our mothers' pride and joy,
and we will be the ones
to tell you now that it's over.
You have no hold on us
like the fear you laid on them.
We are the seeds they grew.
It's we that you must answer to.
Steinbeck would have loved it!
--Vol. Bobby Sands