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>100 pages in

ayo dis shit lit. my man johnny cookin slowly in dis but dang its sum good shit yall know what im sayin

>> No.22360237

>>22360220
Daym dawg aint no bull dat dehumanizing fear and humiliation of impoverishment driven by massive socioeconomic processes towards dismantlement of traditional pillars of life as we know in a society we've come to see as flawless in it's foundation portrayed in a microcosm of a single American family hit by the Dust Bowl is sum real gangsta shit that effing slaps like a pair of hawt booty cheeks with that contrast of socioeconomic critique agaisnt the pastoral style and setting, fr fr an da prose man it ain't mid at all brotha it bussing hard my man.

>> No.22360242

>>22360237
this nigga talkin dat talk an keepin it real ahunned

>> No.22360399

ok now all niggerish gibberish aside, whats lit opinion on this book?

>> No.22360404

>>22360399
put it down and read East of Eden

>> No.22360412

>>22360399
It's literally full of gibberish
>>22360404
I agree, I love Eden couldn't put it down but grapes grew pretty tiering

>> No.22360422

>>22360220

eden better but grapes are also good.

>> No.22360428

>>22360220
>100 pages in
That's roughly how far I got when I binned it, too boring for me

>> No.22360638

>>22360220
It reads like /pol/ ethnostate shitpost. Its a Tedfuel. Its a low brow. Idk how tf Steinbeck got away with it. Okies must have been down in the gutter niggas. Or even worse.
Even crackhead Hunter s. Thompson in his great shark hunt refers to them as subhuman untermensch. Even spic like Oscar zeta Acosta in his memoirs see them as a down and out cast. What was their point? Why would they even want to live.jpg

>> No.22360737

>>22360237
based

>>22360242
also based

>> No.22360746

>>22360399
Isn't it the time of year for school to be resuming session in America?

>> No.22361889

>>22360399
It had the reverse effect on me that Steinbeck intended.
Those Okies were so retarded, I was firmly rooting for The Man by the end.

>> No.22361906

>>22360399
It's short, sweet, and to the point.
But man, Steinbeck's suck a tryhard. Really just begging to appeal to English teachers. He's all
LOOK AT ME I'M ALLUDING TO ANOTHER WORK BUT MY SETTING IS PLAIN AMERICAN FOLKS
EVERYBODY STAND BACK I'M ABOUT TO SET UP A MOTIF
CHECK IT OUT I'M DOING SYMBOLISM GUYS I'M REALLY DOING SOME LITERATURE OVER HERE

And I mean, he IS doing it. He wrote some good book, but man subtlety is not his strong suit.

>> No.22361916

>>22360399
>>22360404
Both start out excellent but slowly devolve into horseshit
Also boomers are absolutely fucking obsessed with prostitutes/the sexuality of their female relatives. They should have gone to therapy

>> No.22362196

>>22360220
It's good but I feel like it already says everything it has to say by about halfway through and doesn't add anything particularly new or interesting for the remainder. My favourite part is early on when it's describing the process of the bank selling up all the land and how no single person in the hierarchy of the bank wants it to happen, yet "the bank" still wills it.