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your opinions, /lit/?

>> No.590673

great cover there

>> No.590674
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>> No.590677

>>590673

This as well.

>> No.590675

>>590673
ditto

>> No.590680

what about the book?

>> No.590681

>>590680

See second post. I cried near the end.

>> No.590685

Brilliant book I really enjoyed studying it in high school.

That's very high praise indeed!

>> No.590687

I cried

>> No.590695

Really disliked it

plot chapter by chapter
Start
New character
New character
New character
New character
End

>> No.590698

is the movie with Sinise and Malkovich good?

>> No.590699

>>590695
don't you have feelings or something

you robot

>> No.590700

>>590699

I do, I just was too pissed off that nothing happened much in it and I could see the end coming

>> No.590703

>>590700

i got the ending spoiled before i even started reading the book
still cried ;____;

>> No.590707

In freshman year of high school my english grade was suffering because I hated this book, didn't read it and was supposed to do an important essay when I finished.

One day during lunch I went to the library, skimmed through the book, half-assed an essay, and got a 98%.

>> No.590717

>>590698

YES, oh GOD yes.

I had to read the book and watch the movie in high school as well, my first year. I remember feeling really resentful because there were lots of metaphorical things that I couldn't wrap my head around.

The one I remember is that the stream and the tree in the beginning of the book are supposed to be metaphors for life and death. "Fuck you," I said. "It's a fucking STREAM and a TREE."

Later that year I tried to read Dr. Zhivago. It did NOT end well.

>> No.590863

It was one of the first big-boy novels I read, I was 12 or 13 and read it because it's my mum's favourite book and she had a copy in the bookcase. Also, it looked very short.

I did enjoy it, possibly because I was new to the whole world of real literature, and the end got to me purely because I had little experience with the whole literature thing. Also I've always been a wuss.

>> No.590880

I think it's safe to say it's the literature icon (or if not the definitive, definitely one of them) of the American dream.

very good book.

>> No.590930

can i tend them rabbits?

>> No.590940

I really enjoyed the read. Loved the significance of the 'your own dog deserves to be put out of his misery by no one but you' talk and how it served as a forewarning of things that would come . Would even go as far as saying that the structure of this literary work could be interpreted as a XXth century answer to greek tragedies.

>> No.590959

>>590940
i like how the structure makes it easy to read, something welcome by people new to literature like me

>> No.590980

>>590959
Cannot compare the impressions, I'm afraid: I was already quite well - read when I reached for this particular novella. Still, in the context of the post you replied to: figures, considering greek plays could be described as 'popular culture' of their time. I think also the style of writing is simple and clear, adding to the setting and providing the ending with even more power.
Also, cocks.

>> No.590983

I absolutely adore all of Steinbeck. This is no exception.

>> No.590985

can anyone tell me what's up with the vaselined gloved hand? I don't get it.

>> No.590997

>>590985
ranch workers usually get their hands really rough (look at op's pic)
while held in a glove filled with vaseline, the hand will remain much softer (Curley did that for his wife)

>> No.590998

>>590997
so he could fist her, sexually?

>> No.591015

>>590997
this made me notice that the strongest characters like Curley and Lennie are the only ones that care about being sensitive towards other people or animals, or even touching soft things in Lennie's case

>> No.591025

>>590985
I was always under the impression it was so Curly could finger his wife...

>> No.591037

>>591025
>>590998
why not just so that his hands are soft to the touch? labourers hands are usually callous and rough. he could be holding hands with her or stroking her cheek or something. I don't see any reason it has to be because he wants to finger her.
besides it's all part of Curly's character, he wants to place himself above the standards and appearance of the other ranchers.

>> No.591052

>>591037
I bet you are a very dull person.

the comments you are referring to are obviously jestful

>> No.591076

>>591037
Curley wasn't tender or gentle. I connoted he wanted to appear so, though. Either that, or he wasn't very, ahem, good in the bedroom His wife certainly didn't think so. She'd hang around the sleeping quarters of the ranchhands for attention to be getting much satisfaction from her husband. Maybe that's why he kept his hand soft, because his dick didn't work enough.

>> No.591324

i cried manly tears

>> No.591361

Was great, loved it more than the vaseline references

>> No.591379

After reading this book, I waned to have Steinbeck's children.

>> No.591442

sweet thursday
you're welcome