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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't expected to enjoy this book as much as I did. It was my first travelogue, and I only read it because, a) I was bored and b)I figured I couldn't go wrong with Steinbeck - a writer I already enjoyed reading (still do).<br/><br/>But I have a wicked streak of wanderlust in me, too, and Steinb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23402802">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a feeling that if I had read Travels with Charley back in high school instead of The Grapes of Wrath or even Of Mice and Men, I would have actually liked Steinbeck rather than merely appreciated him.<br/><br/>Part of my Steinbeck indifference was obviously influenced by  my teenage attitude. At 15 ther...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16830578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Really loved this book. It's basically Steinbeck's cross-country musings about his travels with his big poodle, Charley. What I loved about it was that it lacks Steinbeck's usual heavy-handed doom and gloom. It's not lighthearted, just thoughtful. It's interesting to see how the US was becoming...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9847134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When and if I ever make a cross-country tour or quest of discovery in this vast, mythological nation of ours, I hope that I somehow &quot;find&quot; the America of <em>Travels with Charley</em> -- which, I think, is the approximate equivalent of saying that I hope I have the patience, graciousness, and equan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58627391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recently our Sunday paper travel section had a list of recommended travel books so that's why I tried this one.  Plus I like Steinbeck and think he's pretty funny when he's not writing &quot;Grapes of Wrath&quot; or &quot;Mice and Men.&quot;  This was written about 1960, when he was older and grumpi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21199973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is what Clive James would call an ancillary work by Steinbeck. It is an engaging, sloppy narrative of a round-trip Steinbeck took in a cabined pick-up truck in 1960. For me it began with two strikes: conversations with his dog, a named vehicle, but I survived both of those personal irritations ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12121187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quote I really like, as it captures what Steinbeck and I share in our hearts.<br/><br/>For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard or too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter lazi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9566050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this gentle, open-eyed drive through the US (and a bit of Canada), which Steinbeck made in his later years, after he was famous and settled down comfortably in a house on Long Island. His reason for the trip was that he felt that he'd lost touch with the country which he had become so renown...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2907722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Synopsis:<br/>To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.<br/><br/>This is my favorit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49737315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Travels With Charley is my second John Steinbeck book. And it was a delight to read. (In fact I stayed up with this one because I just couldn't put it down!) I recommend it for those that fall into one or more of the following categories: dog lovers--particularly dog owners; travel-lovers--particula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48941827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steinbeck put a house on a pickup, left the wife behind in their Long Island home and traveled the nation for several months. This is his tale of that experience. I found many quotables here, and I guess one should expect that when the traveler’s name is Steinbeck. In a book of about two hundred p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44488582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wanderlust is a pervasive, seemingly incurable &quot;virus of restlessness.&quot; Not contagious in any clinical sense, you either have it or you don't. John Steinbeck did, in spades. As the 1960s commenced, Steinbeck, according to his oldest son, sensed his impending twilight, and thus set out with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38565039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you don't know the story, here: In 1960, as he turned 58, Steinbeck decides to spend three months driving around the country to find an America he hasn't seen outside of big cities for twenty years. He buys a massive green GMC truck, attaches a camper to the truck bed, and sets off with his Frenc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80152886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/585.John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck">John Steinbeck</a> is a great (the greatest?) American author, so it necessarily follows that his book about traveling around the United States thinking about the notion of nation would be amazing.  In fact, I find this book literally amazing when it comes to the nature of Steinbeck's America.  This has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74190977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>Travels with Charley</u> is one of the last pieces Steinbeck wrote – a few years after he’d published his final piece of fiction.  Having resisted the itch all his life, at nearly sixty he decides to take the road trip around America that he’d dreamed about for much of his life.  For nearly a year...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73712508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As the only John Steinbeck book I've finished, this book stands out on a number of counts.  Because it was a first hand account of his own travels, it was not nearly as dire and depressing as other books by Steinbeck.  It was light hearted, a little irreverent in some places, and poignant in a way t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71913980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is perhaps one of my new favorite Steinbeck works, and another notch on my tally to read all of his pieces. It is an interesting book-- it lies somewhere between memoir and fiction, and in a lot of ways is commentary on writing. It is also, as you might expect, a perfect book to read in the sum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71579141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been a long time since I've read anything by Steinbeck...actually too long!  I do think the last time I read anything of his was when it was assigned reading in high school.  Anyway, after a visit to his house this summer in CA, we picked up a copy of this book and Noel read it within a few day...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69345971">more...</a>]]></body>
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