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    <body><![CDATA[Usually when my father and I actually have conversations, it tends to revolve around some sort of argument. At times, even if I agree with him, I’d pick up the opposite side of the given argument just for arguments sake. When we agree we fall silent, and our relationship is based for the most part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17847552">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. It don't make no difference who the guy is, long as he's with ya'. I tell ya', a guy gets too lonely, and he gets sick.&quot; I first read Of Mice and Men at an age when I was learning to read. Not phonetically, but critically. This novel taught me what ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6115878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[**Re-read 24/09/09**<br/><br/>I enjoyed this book just as much when re-reading as I did the first time around. I flew through the book and wish it had gone on longer. Steinbecks description is so vivid I just wanted to become lost in the story and didn't want it to end. I really need to read more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17221603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A piece of jewelery. Set in sunny California - Salinas, during the Great Depression, &quot;Of Mice and Men&quot; is a story of friendship, dreams and loneliness. I have a long history with it. First I saw the film (excellent, btw), more than 10 years ago, then, a few years later, while writing an es...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32625782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The role of man’s inhumanity towards man plays a significant role in today’s society. This role can be the discrimination between color, status, or mental capacities. John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, validates this belief and confirms the way men inhumanely treat their brothers. This f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21938479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are few books which reduce me to emotional breakdown, but this is one of them.  Revealing the darker side of compassion, Steinbeck tells the story of two friends and what happens when one of them &quot;does a bad thing.&quot;  <br/><br/>Has this novel become over-taught in high schools?  Def...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7221977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You won't get any complaint from me that this book is skillfully written, in it's vivid descriptions of settings, detailed descriptions of characters, and realistic dialogue. <br/><br/>However, I believe this book has a bad message, and the bad message is about how it's ok to put the weak, infirm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16807392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorites. It's not my favorite, because I had completely forgotten about it until I saw someone else had put it in their list, but it's definitely in my top five. Wait. Top ten; I haven't read it in nearly ten years. But I assume I still like it as much as I did.<br/><br/>Everyb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1829300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As part of my *Steinbeck Special* (which in turn is part of my 50 Novels in One Year reading challenge) I’ve finished reading Of Mice and Men and despite its short length, I’ve got to say it’s a monumental piece of literature, with a story as powerful as anything I have, or am probably ever li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28376051">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the book Of Mice and Men was a great book to read, it thought me about people’s handicaps. Not the handicap that you can see out side but the inside handicap. It also talks about the power of brother hood.<br/><br/> The book Of Mice and Men was about different men and there different handicap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21447932">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At 16, I was not able to appreciate the unmistakable harshness of what really is the average human's life. That is to say, I knew people starved to death half way across the world, I knew there were dictators, and so on. But these are the extremes.<br/><br/>I did not recognize small silent sufferi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21216131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mice of men. When I first picked up this book I really didn't want to read it. It seemed as if I was juging the book by it's cover. This book wasn't as interesting in the begining (as no book really is). It was kind of dull in the middle until the wife came in. The three reason why I thought the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20452468">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, first of all, you're probably wondering how I made it through 12 years of good ol' American public school and 4+ years of college without reading this book. Let me explain...no there is too much, let me sum up. I signed up for AP English my senior year of high school. After a few classes I reali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15961949">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book Of Mice And Men y Steinbeck is really good written book. Because It was first written as a play, so he explains all the feelings and the smells really well. The book is about two men traveling together in the 1920’s in America. They are both ranch workers, but it was not very common for w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15280975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first thought after reading this book was that this is the best love story I have ever read.  The love that George (mentally healthy) and Lennie (mentally retarded ) have for each other isn't possible between two adults on the same mental page.  Their love was of the kind that is only possible be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14551009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many people associate &quot;friendship&quot; as benefical and helpful, but in of Mice and Men, &quot;friendship&quot; is a subject worth reflecting upon. George Milton and Lennie Small has complete different personalities and characteristics. Through the use of Irony, the name, &quot;George Milton&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11985567">more...</a>]]></body>
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