bookshelves: tbr-busting-2012, summer-2012, north-americas, pulitzer, period-piece, fraudio Read from June 05 to 19, 2012 fraudiotbr bustingsummer 2012n. americas> oklahomaclassicperiod piece (The Dirty Thirties)pun 1939PulitzerAt last I get to this and my expectations are very high :O) One chap...
I'm hard pressed to know what to say about this book. It's very well written and the subject matter is strangely compelling. But, it's also rather depressing. It's like reading about society's shooting itself in the foot over and over again. This is a tale of the dust-bowl days of the 1930s. Small f...
Grapes of Wrath could be seen as two books, and I mostly liked one, aside from the ending, and mostly hated the other, while admiring aspects of the style even of that part. The book I mostly liked (until the cringe-inducing ending) was the story of the Joad family. During the "Dust Bowl" era of the...
So deeply rooted in his historical background, immensely vivid and brutally strong, showing with unique lyricism and lucidity the hopes and reality of the West, and of the American Dream. The Grapes of Wrath is - more than any other book of the time, and maybe of any time - the actual Great American...
Dear John,There is no doubt in my mind that you are an excellent writer. And I am sure you know this. There is the Pulitzer and there is the Nobel. There are hundreds of editions worldwide and swarms of five star reviews. “The Grapes of Wrath” is a book of great weight (literally and metaphorically)...
Probably the most intense social criticism I've ever read in a book. It's not a book for the light-hearted, but really, f*ck the light-hearted. I've heard people call this book 'boring', quoting that it is 'always the same story' and that it 'is only about hunger'. And who cares about hunger, really...
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