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Summary: It is a long boring book. Do not read it.
Review: The book had very little plot. Yes it was descriptive,but I didn't learn anything new in the book. It went on and on and on. The intercalary chapters were the worst part of the book. They told me nothing. At times it put me to sleep. I feel it has made me dumber for having read it.
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Summary: A classic comment on developmentalism
Review: John Steinbeck understood the condition of conflicting interests that had developed between the boundaries of man's landscapes. He wrote at a time of tumultuous social change and climatic severity in mid-west America. Faceless banks and machines were changing the labour-intensive family-based agriculture, and forced families and whole communities to migrate to California in vain hope. The image is of them being followed by a cloud of dust, as huge machines representing agribusiness and development ate at the soil like monsters. Steinbeck explored the negative trade-offs that are born when the land becomes removed from the psyche, and the whole, for all intents and purposes, no longer exists. His is a sombre comment on an approach which places value on particular components of the land and their functions, to the exclusion of other components, and this included the people. Steinbeck seeks to claim back an holistic perspective of the land and makes comment on the inappropriateness of linear Analysis. His thesis is one that cries that the land is more than just its analysis, that there is some other dimension with deep personal and social implications involved. Comments welcome - email me!
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Summary: One of the 20th century best books ever.........
Review: This was rated #3 in the Modern Library top 100 book list of Radcliffe Publishing Course. So I decided to read it and it is very good. Each chapter has a new meaningful of what happens to the Joad's family, like the Joad's are heading of to California to look for a job. Each chapters are good but most chapters are boring because the family talk too much. That's why nobody likes this book. I think this is one of the best book I ever read because it tells you what does the Great Depression looks like. You feel that you are really in it. What's more this book is not just about the Joad's family but there is lots of information of what the depression looks like. The preacher of Casy is my favorite character because he talks too much and help each other. Too bad he is dead on the end. It is not a hard book to read. I would reccomend this book to everybody.
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Summary: one damn fine novel
Review: this book is amazing because it reveals so much about the human condition and the perils of capitalism when taken to an extreme. i very much enjoyed this book thoroughly. this is a story that is troubling at times, which just adds more to the experience presented. this is the kind of book that leaves an aftertaste that doesnt soon go away. with all that said, will someone please email an explanation of the ending to me? i have come to my own conclusion, but find it altogether unsatisfactory.
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Summary: Comments from an illustrious dumbass.
Review: When you reach page 300 of a book and it's still boring, STOP. NOT ONE WORD MORE. Any optimism won't change the unread content. Unless money has been tucked as a bookmark later on, you won't miss a thing. "Grapes of Wrath" made me want to have a glass of wine and plot my revenge on those who have declared it a classic. Oh well. At least the title was interesting.
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Summary: i'll stick with michael crichton
Review: Unfortunately i had to read this book for my american literature class. it went on and on and on about absolutely nothing!yes mr. steinbeck is very descriptive, by he goes completely overboard in almost every chapter. i mean, does it really take a whole chapter to describe a turtle! as for the characters i thought that they were all dumb and unsympathetic. and he wrote them with such a strong dialect that i had to re-read most of it just to understand what they were saying. there was nothing that kept me interested in it or even made me want to finish it. i could have cared less if they bought their "littl' white house" in California. my advice to other people in my situation: buy the cliff notes. the only people i would recommend this book to is insomniacs, it is better than any sleeping pill on the market.
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Summary: everyone who hated it is a dumbass
Review: i dont know why everyone hates this book. not only is it "america's novel", its a novel that can be planted into todays plight of the mexicans and italians. its a story that is timeless and sincere and has much more significance than all those "la-di-da" novels that sell for 20 bucks and are composed of pure smut. you want some deep emotion read this book. i cant understand why everyone hated it i just think they are a bunch of immature asses who either cant read it or have no deeper literary aspirations. thats my opinion, bite me!
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Summary: Moving, strong and gut wrenching
Review: Having just finished a series of Ayn Rand books regarding objectivism and pro-capitalism, I thought I would be truly appalled by Steinbechs' great "proletarian" master piece. The truth was anything but! This story does not promote communism as some other reviewers on this page suggests, but rather shows the results when free market economy capitalism is exploited and perversed. The book shows that when labor organizes it is percieved as "red" since hundreds, if not thousands of individuals must publicly ban together. When the big boys (in this case the large farm land owners) ban together, they do it covertly and are never questioned about their patriotism.Steinbech has brought all of these moral and social issues together in his moving (if not sometimes over sentimental) story of the Joad family. Yes, it sometimes tends toward being long winded but it is one of the most compelling novels I have ever read.
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Summary: A terror to any high school student
Review: I had to read this book this summer, and I am lucky that I got through it. It has no climax and no plot twists. Nothing to keep the reader intrested in the book. It just goes on and on. I know it has historical inportance, but how can anyone get though this book without falling asleep. I take comfort in knowing I will never be forced to read it agian. A school can only torture you once.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Novels of All Time
Review: "Grapes of Wrath" is one of the greatest novels of all time. I am 14, and after seeing the Henry Fonda movie, I decided to read the book. What a masterpiece! To those who want to cut all of the description, it is necessary. That is setting the mood. Without the description, it would just be some cold, detached dissertation on the Depression. The description entrenched me into the book. I didn't feel as if I was reading a book, I felt I was THERE. I was part of the family, traveling in the car, feeling their pains, feeling their joys. It was as if I was Jim Casy, tagging along with the Joad family. This book is a great experience for any high schooler. Along with To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone With the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath is one of the greatest and most electrifying novels of all time. This should not be missed by anyone who likes to read.
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