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This book may make me jump off a bridge. Thanks.*
*OK, I wrote that like, 20 pages into the book. Yes, I didn't mean it in a bad way--it's just really depressing. But still awesome. I will say that I understand why I could never get through it before now. It's not a book I would have appreciated nearly as much when I was younger and hadn't been working in the "real world" for awhile.
Hm. I want to right a real review, cause I loved this book so very much and did not expect that I would, but other ...more
*OK, I wrote that like, 20 pages into the book. Yes, I didn't mean it in a bad way--it's just really depressing. But still awesome. I will say that I understand why I could never get through it before now. It's not a book I would have appreciated nearly as much when I was younger and hadn't been working in the "real world" for awhile.
Hm. I want to right a real review, cause I loved this book so very much and did not expect that I would, but other ...more
A book you were supposed to read in school, but didn't: The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (sort of cheating on this one- I was an overly diligent child who read all her assigned books, but it's a book people read in school that I've never read)
I liked it much more than I'd figured I would, but the ending was really unsatisfying. And the whole time I kept thinking the more things change the more they stay the same. But, better than anticipated. ...more
I liked it much more than I'd figured I would, but the ending was really unsatisfying. And the whole time I kept thinking the more things change the more they stay the same. But, better than anticipated. ...more
Amazing characters, and a story that is eerily similar in a lot of ways to things that are happening now. Love the descriptions of the relationship or lack thereof with the land.
Mar 07, 2013
Ashley Holstrom
marked it as to-read
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Dec 21, 2014
Deanna M
marked it as to-read
Dec 03, 2017
Elizabeth
marked it as to-read
