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Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Voodoo Lounge
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The problem I have with using Steinbeck as an allegory to today's seeming dystopia, is that I never felt a sense of dread when reading any of his novels. Quite the opposite. Even when he paints a landscape as seemingly dreary as the ones in Tortilla Flats or The Pearl, there is hope in the narrative.
ALWAYS hope in the narrative.
I feel a more suitable narrator of today's world would be more of a Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell or even Paul Theroux with his novel The O Zone...
Maybe Nevil Shute if you really think we are closing shop as a civilization.
Not Steinbeck. Not to me anyway.
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