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For a short book, this took me a long time to read. As much as I admired the writings and particularly the characterization, I wasn’t really drawn in and kept putting it aside for other things.
But the second half of the book really got me. It wasn’t so much Lennie - to be honest, I kept putting myself in the place of the girl and the woman and the dead tiny creatures and I didn’t really have as much sympathy for him as I was clearly meant to.
It was the other characters. It was Crooks and how i ...more
But the second half of the book really got me. It wasn’t so much Lennie - to be honest, I kept putting myself in the place of the girl and the woman and the dead tiny creatures and I didn’t really have as much sympathy for him as I was clearly meant to.
It was the other characters. It was Crooks and how i ...more
Something to be said for a really good book you can manage in a couple hours. So here's the thing about Steinbeck. Like John Irving, Ernest Hemmingway, and J. D. Salinger, he writes the kind of characters and the kind of themes I have a really hard time sympathising with. And here's the thing about how Steinbeck is a better writer than that: I STILL sympathise with them. Seriously. As a person with a disabilty, AND a woman, I really should not be feeling as horribly raw at the end of this book a
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