Listen.
I am drunk, by the way, and I'm in a place in the US where most people have not heard of "The Grapes of Wrath", which I have read, along with nearly every other Steinbeck novel or short story ever written.
If you read TGoW, much like "Atlas Shrugged" or the Bible or whatever, all of which I've read twice, you're not reading because they're a perfectly written book. They're not. "East of Eden" is superior philosophically and from a story telling perspective from Grapes -- but that being said, Grapes teaches you something you won't learn anywhere else. That ending, for some people -- and I was one -- is amazing. So it is worth it.
That's all.
Alcohol is awful, I could have said that much better -- so I apologize. But I do love Steinbeck, he showed me a lot.
I am drunk, by the way, and I'm in a place in the US where most people have not heard of "The Grapes of Wrath", which I have read, along with nearly every other Steinbeck novel or short story ever written.
If you read TGoW, much like "Atlas Shrugged" or the Bible or whatever, all of which I've read twice, you're not reading because they're a perfectly written book. They're not. "East of Eden" is superior philosophically and from a story telling perspective from Grapes -- but that being said, Grapes teaches you something you won't learn anywhere else. That ending, for some people -- and I was one -- is amazing. So it is worth it.
That's all.
Alcohol is awful, I could have said that much better -- so I apologize. But I do love Steinbeck, he showed me a lot.
I cannot even copy his manner because the manner of his prose was the manner of his thinking and that was a dazzling succession of gaps; and you cannot ape a gap because you are bound to fill it in somehow or other -- and blot it out in the process. -- Nabokov
My friend's sister let me borrow The Grapes of Wrath. It's not my niche.
- 11/11/2010 01:41:11 PM
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I mentioned it as one of the books I hate, so I'm not exactly unbiased.
- 11/11/2010 02:54:03 PM
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I agree with Tom.
- 11/11/2010 03:01:46 PM
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I'm jumping on the bandwagon as well. I would go for something else instead. *NM*
- 11/11/2010 09:49:55 PM
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Is it worth the try? That depends.
- 11/11/2010 05:00:18 PM
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Re: All these people telling you not to read it means you should read it! *NM*
- 13/11/2010 01:45:15 PM
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