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by John Steinbeck
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Booky
Booky rated it 6 years ago
I want people like Samuel Hamilton and Lee in my life. I know that I'll return to this book just to hang out with them again.
MadgeWhitlin
MadgeWhitlin rated it 7 years ago
This isn't a review, just my rambling thoughts immediately after finishing this book.Finishing this book feels like An Accomplishment, if you know what I mean. I don't know what it is about Steinbeck's writing--which I love, or at least I've loved his writing in [b:The Pearl|5308|The Pearl|John Stei...
Thalia @ Pictures in the Words
Thalia @ Pictures in the Words rated it 7 years ago
I had been afraid that, when I didn’t like Of Mice and Men, I was doomed to dislike Steinbeck, one of the supposedly greatest writers of the twentieth century. Then, I was pulled in the opposite direction when I fell in love with The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. I needed something else...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 8 years ago
it was amazing bookshelves: published-1952, spring-2011, north-americas, families, classic, nobel-laureate, historical-fiction, epic-proportions, lifestyles-deathstyles, philosophy, period-piece, recreational-homicide, war, wwi, winter-20152016, lit-richer-jan-2016, re-visit-2016, us-california, pa...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it 9 years ago
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an o...
even with nougat, you can have a perfect moment
This book is beautiful. It's so simply written and yet it explores the complexity of a million different issues with a deft hand. Yes, it is flawed - but it hardly matters when it offers the kind of reading experience that it does. I get the feeling your perspective has a lot to do with how you i...
The Book Magpie's Nest
The Book Magpie's Nest rated it 9 years ago
This book is beautiful. It's so simply written and yet it explores the complexity of a million different issues with a deft hand. Yes, it is flawed - but it hardly matters when it offers the kind of reading experience that it does. I get the feeling your perspective has a lot to do with how you i...
kennethjmcginnis
kennethjmcginnis rated it 10 years ago
4.29894615
LittleMissProcrastination
LittleMissProcrastination rated it 11 years ago
"Young Adam was always an obedient child. Something in him shrank from violence, from contention, from the silent shrieking tensions that can rip at a house. He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there ...
johnmon
johnmon rated it 11 years ago
I mostly endorse the below referenced 2 star review, but still like the book because of a lot of decent ideas and "character analysis"/"philosophizing".http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/554604060A couple of excerpts from the review:"I am giving this book two stars because there are interesting id...
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