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I think I'll just close myself in a dark room, curl up in the corner and die.
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All Lennie wanted to do was tend the rabbits...
It would be difficult indeed to get to the age that I am without already knowing how the story here goes. Thanks to the several adaptations for both cinema and television, and even Warner Brothers cartoons ("I will love him and pet him and call him George,") I knew the bones of the story and, thanks to my memory of the 1992 film, the ending.
What I didn't get from any of those sources was the sheer beauty of John Steinbeck's writing. Every word has w ...more
It would be difficult indeed to get to the age that I am without already knowing how the story here goes. Thanks to the several adaptations for both cinema and television, and even Warner Brothers cartoons ("I will love him and pet him and call him George,") I knew the bones of the story and, thanks to my memory of the 1992 film, the ending.
What I didn't get from any of those sources was the sheer beauty of John Steinbeck's writing. Every word has w ...more
Oct 16, 2007
Catherine
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My students almost killed me for this one because it was "independent reading" and we never got to discuss it. I wish I could do this over and actually spend some time with it. No one understood the ending...
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Oct 26, 2007
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