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  <read_at>Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Much has been said about Steinbeck's apparent portrayal of Mexican Americans as lazy, amoral drunkards in <em>Tortilla Flat</em>. Some say Steinbeck was racist; some say he was just a product of his time. Which is right I do not know; Steinbeck may very well have been racist (he also uses &quot;jew&quot; as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6277348">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned from this book that I continue to love Steinbeck. I despise the idea that he (like hemmingway for that matter) is sometimes considered a &quot;simple&quot; writer. Here's my opinion: Using flowery prose to add weight and impart meaning on a vaporous story is not great literature. A substan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3421964">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm steadily working my way through Steinbeck's oeuvre and, so far, enjoying every minute of it.  I like the style of &quot;Tortilla Flat&quot;, although I'm not sure I understand the reason for it - as when the characters lapse into dialogue that includes &quot;thees&quot; and &quot;thous&quot;.  W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28421594">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Briefly, Danny, the chief protagonist in this novel, returns from the war to Tortilla Flat (a paisano district that sits upon a hillside above Monterey), to find he has inherited two houses. What then follows is a comedic tale that fundamentally can be summed up in 5 words - wine, friendship, food, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27098369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6811216">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book wasn't nearly as offensive as I expected. However, it was still pretty racist and its hard to get around that to find too much pleasure in the other parts of the book.  In addition to the super sterotyped Mexican characters (one member of the gang is Portuguese), there are also digs at jew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6811216">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some things i noticed about this book:<br/><br/>1. Allegory for King Arthur and the knights of the Roundtable<br/>2. Danny's good side represents Arthur, while his wild side represents Lancelot's later character. <br/>3. For a while i thought Danny was a figure of christ becasue of his forgiving...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16668475">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I loved this book. I did. Here's why: simple, straightforward, but oh-so-charming storytelling. No pretenses. What you see, is what you get. Danny. Pilon. Big Joe Portagee. Pablo Sanchez. Jesus Maria Corcoran. Pirate and his dogs. Some might argue that none of these are great characters. You m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48941934">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 14:18:44 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 14:19:37 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read an old copy of this book (not old as in antique or valuable, just old as in the pages are falling out and the paper smells funny), which might account for the somewhat odd blurb on the back.  I don't have the book with me, so this definitely isn't a quote, but I'll try to capture the tone: so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39051744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tortilla Flat was a great novel with positive morals and lessons. The main characters are a group of &quot;paisanos&quot; or mexican men. They are always trying to get out of completing their responsibilities. They do not spend their money wisely and often times use it to buy wine and get drunk. Tor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81343394">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tortilla Flat is the name of a (fictional) poverty-stricken neighborhood of Monterey, California. The residents of the neighborhood (called paisanos, and a &quot;mixture of Spanish, Indian, Mexican, and assorted Caucasion bloods&quot;) live in shacks on a dirt road, without electricity. Danny--a pai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67628380">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how Steinbeck does it. Everything I read by him just jumps off the page and into my brain; I become totally immersed in every single tale. Tortilla flats is no exception. The 5 <em>paisanos</em> (but what Steinbeck really means is Mexican) are not particularly sympathetic characters. In fact, so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61215510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[DATARAN TORTILLA<br/>John Steinbeck<br/><br/> <br/><br/>Dataran Tortilla menggambarkan kehidupan kaum paisanos, yaitu rakyat jelata yang berdarah campuran antara Spanyol, Indian, Meksiko dan Kaukasia di sebuah daerah nelayan yang miskin.  Dalam novel ini Steinbeck mengisahkan bagaimana kehidupa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59704439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pretty disappointed with this, surprisingly so. I love everything that Steinbeck has written, always return to him faithfully for a little hope in the human race, and always count on him for an interesting read; this was so dull, cheesy, and overall lame -- I'm amazed.<br/><br/>Ironically en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66986191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[HILARIOUS!!! Not deep or containing reflections about the meaning of life, just really, really fucking funny. The guys in it are shiftless winos whose main purpose in life is to score a jug of wine and sit around drinking it, but the scrapes they get into are so ludicrous and well-written that you c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48613704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book revealed the importance of friendship between the main character(Danny) and his close friends. Danny earns two houses as an inheritance after his grandfather's death. As Danny returns back from war he settles into one of the houses and the other he rents to his friends. Later the house ren...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81216139">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pemuktahiran 12/05/09:<br/><br/>Tortilla Flat atau diterjemahkan dengan begitu bagus oleh Djokolelono menjadi <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6462221.Dataran_Tortilla" title="Dataran Tortilla by John Steinbeck">Dataran Tortilla</a> adalah karya yang menjadi idola Ahmad Tohari. Secara khusus dalam satu sesi wawancara Ahmad Tohari berujar bahwa Dataran Tortilla adalah yang menyemangati dirinya untuk me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55755873">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm not sure how i feel about this book. when asked what it was about, all i could answer is &quot;drunk mexicans&quot;. any more to it? well, yeah, they're also lazy. oh, and sometimes they speak with &quot;thou&quot;s and &quot;thee&quot;s for seemingly no reason at all. it's hard to tell if it's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58420350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've recently joined a Steinbeck book club, and I must say I was leary of it at first. I've never been a huge fan of his works, seeing as Steinbeck is shoved down the throats of every Monterey Bay Area student. But by the end of every novel, something in me doesn't want it to end. Something attaches...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77871352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one wonders if one could do away with ambition and computers and bookface and tivo and truly be happy living day to day, sleeping in a hollow log, stealing one's dinner from pumpkin patches and bean fields, trading a day's work for a jug of cheapo wine or a roll in the hay with a whore-with-a-heart-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57950369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book got the whole three just for the writing.  If I had to factor in the characters and the plot, it would have got a one.  I'm sure when the book was written the &quot;paisano&quot; life-style was far more accepted in certain locales than it is now. At least, so the fore-ward would have us be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44858970">more...</a>]]></body>
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