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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I’m re-reading Steinbeck’s East of Eden now. Powerful book. Steinbeck is my favorite author because of the richness of the characters he creates. He writes of the kind of people I can relate to, his main characters are multi-faceted, but there is a melancholy about them that makes them relatable.
After this I’ll take a break and the re-read Travels With Charley.
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Great minds, Patrick.
Last month I stumbled across "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck" in one of those bargain Kindle sites.
I'd read most of these as a boy or a young man, but took great pleasure in savoring every word and sentence and paragraph of this re-visitation because this Steinbeck fella can really spin a yarn, and I didn't want to miss a single nuance.
"The Red Pony"
"Cannery Row"
"Of Mice and Men"
"The Pearl"
"The Moon is Down"
"Tortilla Flats"
Then, in the last few weeks, for some odd reason I'm reading lots of those serial westerns from the forties and fifties by Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour and Max Brand.
Fast reads, all of them are a lot alike, kinda hokey and corney, but I'm nostalgic and I think I'm just worn out from the current state of the world right now and I need a break.