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The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)

The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: American tragedy/triumph
Review: A remarkable story of the adverse livng conditions during the depression. The constant struggle for just enough to eat was truly a triumph over tragedy.Fortunately, few of us today will never encounter such hardships.This novel should be required reading for those who think it's tough going in todays world.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Deeply beautiful writing
Review: What a deeply moving, beautifuly written novel! The story will haunt you. A masterpiece.

I could not recommend it more.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: grapes of wrath - a book to make you remember
Review: I am no literary expert, but this book has to be one of the best I have read. Its depiction of suffering and the (sometimes losing) battle against adversity is something which should always be remembered in a country which likes to highlight that its "American Dream" is open to all. It is important not to forget what happened to real people in the past - how can we improve the present if we don't learn our lessons from the past?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Burn it!!
Review: I normally don't support book burning, but for this book I'll make an exception! I have never read a book at horrible as this one. Every other chapter was absolutely meaningless. I suppose you could argue that a wheat shaft in the wind has purpose, but I just don't care. This book is better than NyQuil!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A MONUMENT IN LITERATURE
Review: WHAT CAN I SAY THAT COULD EVEN APPROACH THE JUSTICE THIS BOOK DESERVES. "THE GRAPES OF WRATH" IS A SHEAR TOUCHSTONE IN BEAUTY AND HONESTY THAT TRAVELS THROUGH EVER EMOTION THE HUMAN SPIRIT HAS EVER EXPERIENCED. WITH THE INTERCHAPTERS WAXING PHILOSOPHIC, AND THE CHAPTERS THEMSELVES BROADCASTING THE HORROR AND DEVASTATION OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ON A MICROCOSMIC LEVEL, A BALANCE OF PURE AWE AND MAGESTY IS STRUCK WITH THE READER. IF YOU WISH TO CONSIDER YOURSELF AMERICAN, OR, HELL, EVEN AN EMPATHIC HUMAN BEING, YOU WILL READ THIS TRUE MONUMENT IN LITURATURE.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Grapes of Wrath is a good book.
Review: I had to read this book for an English class and it is definitely the best book I have had to read for school in the last 5 years. I would recommend it to anybody who likes history.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Very Good Read..
Review: Off, to adventure, this story takes you away into the unknown, the Joad family, gathering what little possession they have left and taking off. The characters rely on each other mostly through the book. Ma is a very strong person sometimes taking the most decisive direction. This is what thousands of families had to go through to survive. A very good read, makes you feel you are there with the Joads, I recommend it...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: a great classic novel
Review: I thought this book was very good in the fact that it brought the depression to life. Some of the people who hate this book don't even know what it is about. The person who was complaining about the chapter dedicated to a turtle probably has no clue that the turtle chapter is a summary of the entire events of the entire book!

Rating: 1 stars
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.

Rating: 5 stars
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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