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Finally finished this tome. Don't really know what to make of it. Part of me found it moving, part of me was put off by the whole thing. I can see doing the Cain and Abel story once, but to do it twice over, in one book, in succeeding generations, just seems like overkill. But then maybe that's what Steinbeck wanted: to show the pattern of repetition. As he says in the novel, "Humans are caught--in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and
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I actually liked this book. The reason that I gave it 4 stars was because it was a little slow in some parts, but other than that it was a good story, despite the ending being terribly sad.
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