Do you like any Steinbeck novels? If so which ones?I had to read Grapes of Wrath back in high school, I remember thinking it was okay but I was always told East of Eden is a much better book (through college and into adulthood everyone seems to prefer it for whatever reason)
>>25311268I watched the movie it was kino
They made us say nigger when reading of Mice and Men in school, out loud. Shame on Steinbeck and shame on Mr Watkins, my English teacher.
>>25311571Glory to Steinback and glory to Mr Watkins
I really enjoyed Cannery Row.
I never read him. Everyday on /lit/ i see i just didn't have any of the typical high-school reading. No Steinbeck no Shakespeare no hemmingway no Faulkner
>>25312765It’s pretty impossible to miss all of those, especially Shakespeare, if you’re American
>>25312768I'm American. We only read modernized midsummer nights dream
>>25312771IDK if they nuked the curriculum in the 8 years since I graduated HS but we read at least 1 Shakespeare play every year and usually had to act out a part of it in English. I also had to read him in my gen ed college courses.
>>25312765Ok then read them now tf? Probably will get more out of them now anyway. Except maybe east of Eden. I feel like that book is meant to be read as a high school age person finding their own identity. I didn't get much of of it as an adult
Tortilla Flat is amazing. Highly recommend. Short funny sweet. Drunks as Arthurian legends. Perfect.
>>25312902I'm busy with other readings. I don't see the point. I missed i missed out. As it is
>>25311268yeah.I enjoyed cannery row
Steinbeck was a whiny socialist twat. In his book Travels with Charley he wrote a whole memoir about roughing it in a camper with only his dog for company, but really he was yukking it up in 5-star hotels with his wife the whole time and passing off entirely fictional sequences as fact (which always happen to drive home the "white man bad, rich man bad, poor blacks good" narrative)
