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  • This is the first time I have read this. I liked it a lot better then The Grapes of Wrath also by John Steinbeck.The AP Literature Book Group is reading this as their monthly choice. I'll be very interested to see how they discuss it. I don't necessarily feel that there is a lot to be discussed...SP ... Continue

    This is the first time I have read this. I liked it a lot better then The Grapes of Wrath also by John Steinbeck.The AP Literature Book Group is reading this as their monthly choice. I'll be very interested to see how they discuss it. I don't necessarily feel that there is a lot to be discussed...SPOILERI wonder if George killed Lennie more for himself then for Lennie. It was pretty obvious that Lennie would die or go to prison anyways, but did George need to kill him himself. Was this easier for Lennie or was it easier for George?

    

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  • I read this book a very long time ago and loved it. In my opinion it is one of Steinbeck's best novels and classified a modern classic for a very good reason. This is my copy and I plan to read it again (as soon as my huge list of to-be-read books gets smaller).

    

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  • It's Faulkner, if you like Faulkner then you must also read Absolom Absolom to get really into Quentin's isms

    

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  • Wow, this book was so emotionally charged from the start that I didn't think I could read it without a vacation. I'll read it someday.

    

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  • In this case, the reward exceeds the challenge of the read, and the challenge is formidable. Perhaps the most difficult book I have ever read, but also one of the best.

    

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  • I read this during my sophomore year in high school (1984).

    

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One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck's controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America during the Great Depression through the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. Intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is not only a landmark American novel, but it is as well an extraordinary moment in the history of our national conscience.

Dorothy Allison on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath: "

"John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a novel completely of it's time-but that time is as much the concrete nineties as the dust bowl thirties. With language that echoes the poetry of the gospels and characters who cling to simple human decency under the most horrific assaults, it is both a work of social criticism and a celebration of the American character. The Joad family speaks to us of all the homeless and displaced families on our streets today, and to the fears and prejudices that tempt so many of us to close our eyes or look away. In telling the story of the Joads, John Steinbeck has retold the story of this nation. We are not a small mean people, Steinbeck's work proclaims, and to prove it he showed us the courage and grace in the poorest of us."

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