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Summary: Excellent
Review: Read one of the modern authors and then read this book. Only then will you appreciate Steinbeck's artisty in writing this masterpiece. The descriptions and character developmenbt puts all other recent books to shame.
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Summary: A very enjoyable and worthwhile book to read
Review: I read this book the Summer after eigth grade. No, it wasn't assigned. I really enjoyed the book. It tells about the struggle of family during the depression, and the ultimate dehuminization of each member of the family. It's a moving story about an important part of history that text books often don't touch upon. It kept my attention the entire time, and 600 pages wasn't too long for a story like this one. If you are the kind of person that doesn't read books unless they have pictures in them, I have to say this book is not for you.
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Summary: Extremely descriptive, but worth every word
Review: I tried to start reading this book three times before I finally got past the part about the turtle. It is true that Steinbeck is VERY descriptive, but in doing so he creates a world and draws the reader into it. While the reading may be slow, the story, and the lesson of the story is too valuable to miss just because it takes a little longer to get through than your average Grisham novel. This novel is about sacrifice and loss, great joy and great pain. The Grapes of Wrath is the story of one family and the decisions that they must make to go on. It is about survival. It is about life.
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Summary: Important but dull
Review: First it goes w/out saying that yes, I am a high school student who was required by her teacher to read this book. And although that put s me at a somewhat biased opinion I am still entitled to it and it is a valid one regardless of what some of the older generations who like to lable all teenagers as having ADD. The book has many flaws but one saving grace. It's important in the sense that it gives a great insight to a period in history that many prefer to ignore or forget. But that's it. The story line is as dull, unengaging, and and long as you could possibly imagine. And if anybody has a problem with my opinion, tough. Like I said before, it's mine and I'm entitled to it.
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Summary: Touching,an in-depth look at the Depression.
Review: Perhaps one of Steinback's most powerful novels. An excellent book for study or recreation.
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Summary: American classic
Review: Steinbeck got it right...the dialogue, the way the people relate to each other, their values. Not easy to read but it gives back much.
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Summary: a breath taking,yet bleak and amzing romance.
Review: at first the book seemed to long.but the more you read on and start having the sensation you feel like you are actually IN the book,which forces you to take a break.but the break won't take too long because you can't wait to read and finish this wonderful piece of art that seems contemporary in our unstable economy/world. bye from ISRAEL.
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Summary: "classic" john steinbeck
Review: Well, well, well.
This book is a doozy, that's for sure. I read The Grapes of Wrath in 8th grade for "fun" and re-read it this year for summer reading (i'm 16) and wasn't too fond of the book either time. I'm probably going to be lumped into the category of "all the high schoolers who read it for english and didn't like it because their generation has attention-span problems," but, frankly, that's not true. I've read and loved such wordy books as The Scarlet Letter, each of Umberto Eco's tomes (essays indcluded), The Great Political Theories (volumes one and two, no less), among others.
The Grapes of Wrath, though, was just boring. It's sort of like an old-school Saving Private Ryan - let's beat into our readers'/watchers' heads the horrors of a terrible time in our history. What comes from this are preachy stories without base because, ultimately, we realize they are fictional. There was no Tom Joad or Private Ryan. The Depression existed, yes, but none of these characters did.
Why should this make a difference? The story is fiction, after all, right? The difference is that Steinbeck, as in almost all of his mediocre books, tries to make us, through deathly boring descriptions and symbols, that his characters really existed. Oh well. I guess people are going to keep on reading this, so what I say here doesn't really matter. Read it once, and regret you ever did.
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Summary: an honest, very well written and sincere book
Review: I had to read this book for honors English, and i have to admit i had my doubts about it going in, but it turned out that i really liked the book, for its honesty and its historical significance, as well as the finely crafted story and exciting plot. I respect John Steinbeck immensely, he is one of the first writers I have ever read that i really feel is being 100% honest and saying the things that he feels. A great book
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I had to read this book for my Honors English Class. I thought it was going to be boring but I read the first 250 pages in one sitting. It was a good book. I did not like the ending but it was still a good book.
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