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Summary: Lennie and George life
Review: George and Lennie are the most important characters in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.These tow character spend all their life traveling from city to city looking for jobs to survive.They also have a big dream that they wish comes true.Somebody,they travel to Soledad,California to work.But they find a lot of problems in that place because of Lennie.
I totally recomend this book because i found it very interesting and we also can learn about how is the life of the migrant workers and their ralationship with others migrants.
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Summary: The Life Of Tow Migrant Worker
Review: In the story OF MICE AND MEN,the main characters Lennie,a huge guy with a little mind,and George,a small guy and smart.These two migrant workers go to Soledad,California to work and get some money to make their dreams come true.But,they find a lot of troubles there........
Irecomend this book because it's shows the life of the migrant workers,their dreams and how they have to travel from different parts of the world.But also,this book is very interesting because the way the characters talk and the things they do are very funny and capture the readers attention.
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Summary: LOVED THIS BOOK! LOVED IT LOVED IT!
Review: I am now reading this book for the second time, I actually bought another copy because I lent the book to my mom, who lent it to a friend at work who lent it to another friend. Now the book is somewhere out there in outer-space, being passed around I presume! :)
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Summary: Spending too much time with a dog?
Review: Dogs are great companions but they have their limitations - namely the present. I know Steinbeck is tongue-in-cheek in some places, such as when he has a conversation with Charley, but it's not clear when he is and when he's not. I suspect it wasn't clear to him either.
Some examples: "Charley was torn three ways - with anger at me for leaving him, with gladness at the sight of Rocinante, and with pure pride in his appearance."
"I saw the look of veiled contempt in Charliey's eyes." "...trying to make himself look small."
This is not to say he doesn't hit the nail on the head in quite a few places, e.g. how Charley gets him up in the morning. There have been days when I open my eyes in the morning and the first thing I see is a black nose two inches from my nose!
I didn't find Steinbeck's human interactions paticularly interesting so if you're not interested in dogs, don't bother.
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Summary: Is America one?
Review: John Steinbeck decides to tour the US from coast to coast and then back to try to capture the country and its inhabitants, to capture the soul of America. His decision to travel alone, with his dog Charley, in a big camper, incognito, is a risky decision. Risky for his security : you can be attacked by anyone in some isolated areas. Risky for his mental state because it means solitude and the necessity to speak and converse with total strangers he meets on the road, here and there, and this solitary adventure is kind of difficult for him because he is not always capable of being receptive to the unknown others. Risky too for his intellectual welfare because he meets with people and circumstances that force him to think and to question his own personal convictions. The first conclusion he finds is that in fact this last risk is not that great because one, and he is no different from anyone else, only looks at things and sees things that one is ready to see and look at. In other words he discovers that tourism, since his trip is nothing but tourism of some kind, does not really enable the tourist to see with virginal eyes. The tourist can only see with his cultured and cultivated eyes. The second conclusion he comes too is that all Americans are fundamentally alike, share some fundamental truths and characteristics. Yet he does not see the contradiction there is in such an assertion with the fact that he discovers some extreme form of racism in the south that is grappling the first moments of school integration. He feels nothing in common with the racist whites and he cannot really get in contact, in touch with the few blacks he meets and who resist any exchange, closing themselves up in some kind of cautious silence and artificial humble attitude to prevent any provacative action or reaction from the whites. He does not see either the contradiction between his belief that all Americans share some fundamental values and his conviction that he as a tourist projects his own vision on the reality he tries to scrutinize. These fundamental common elements seem to be in the eye of the author. He is defending the principle of the melting pot, the blacks and the indians not being taken into account, and he goes thus against history that sees the emergence of the black civil right movement at this time and will see the emergence of numerous other movements of the same kind over the following decades : native Americans, gay people, women and their liberation, hispanics, etc. He is not able to conceive the salad bowl the US is going to become in the wake of multiculturalism. An interesting book that gives us a series of perfectly well dated snapshots of the US and does not avoid some unpleasant realities he comes across. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Summary: Good
Review: I won t say very good, because the narration is very long, and some people ike me can find it boring ... but on the same time, it s a well written book , where you follow Steinbeck with his dog on his trip in Northern America. The descriptions are nice, though long ...but at the end it is not boring, and I was happy to have read it
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Summary: Awful!!!
Review: In this rather short novel, Steinbeck tells the reader about the most memorable parts of his cross-country trip with his dog. Unfortunately, these memorable moments are among the most boring narratives that I have ever read! Steinbeck wastes half of the book on an in-depth study of what his French poodle, Charley, prefers to urinate on, a topic that I personally do not care about at all. Ultimately, I think that had this novel been written in the Middle Ages, it would have quickly replaced the rack as a popular torture method.
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Summary: The most awful novel
Review: Travel with Charley is the most awful book I had ever read in my life. The plot of story is like going nowhere, he keeps telling the same occasion over and over again. He can tell a second of moment into two or three pages. Describe his stupid truck into more than a page. There is nothing interesting in his journey. He said he prefer went through the countryside road than the highway almost every time in the book.Travel with Charley makes me absolutely lost my interesting in reading novels. I think this would be my last novel to read if I don't have to read it. I'm not going to insult John Steinbeck's books; probably someone out there would like his books to death. I'm not discouraging people not to read his books, but this is my comment after reading it.
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Summary: America in Steinbeck's eye
Review: John Steinbeck sees the United States in another special angle or we may say in his personal angle. In John Steinbeck¡¯s book, Travels with Charley, he sees the America as a humanistic person more than a high-develop industrial country. So he focuses on the people instead of the constructions. He goes into the countryside, because in his eyes this is the root of America. In his travel, the customs and the ways the American live are the landscapes. He avoids or at least try to avoid the big cities. He would rather drive on a local than drive on a high way. In his trip the thing he tries to find or to see in the root of America.
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Summary: "An Outstanding Travel"
Review: John Steinbeck's book:"Travels With Charley" is one of the most interesting book that I've read. It's about about an exciting travel across America made by Steinbeck and his french poodle, Charley. Although the book has been written since more than forty years ago, there are still some aspects that are found in the current society. The paint of America made by Steinbeck is so authentic, so real that it makes the reader dazzled, stimulates his curiosity and takes him to places that he might have never been. Steinbeck is a great observer. He describes everything so perfectly, from people to the american society; from the american society to the environment. By using a numerous figures of speeches, he gives to all his descriptions an attractive color which bring them alive. As an example, the way Steinbeck talks about the nature is just extraordinary. Steinbeck points his finger at the problems of America, and precisely the pollution caused the industrialization of the big cities. Also, he mentions one of the greatest problems that is ravaging the american society since ever, which is the problem of discrimination and racial conflict between Black and White. Personally, I was proud to read his perception about the problem, and the fact of considering himself as a cosmopolitan. In short, Steinbeck discusses with vigour a lot of delicate facts that are still found in today's society.Therefore,"Travels With Charley" still has its place in the in this new generation.
Although I reproach Steinbeck for his tendency to include too many details for things or events which are not important( discussions with charley...), I still think it's a good book to read because you can discover the genius of an author that can make you discover the beauty of a country.
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