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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
No question about it. Brilliant. One of the best books ever written.
But I cried almost through it all. It is very hard.
Also, trigger warning. Animals getting killed.
But I cried almost through it all. It is very hard.
Also, trigger warning. Animals getting killed.
I cannot believe what George did to Lennie. That was unbelievably cruel.
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