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賲賵卮鈥屬囏� 賵 丌丿賲鈥屬囏�
鈥淚 got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.鈥�
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.
A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.
A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
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John Steinbeck
780听books24.8k听followersJohn Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize鈥搘inning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.
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August 6, 2016
The title of this novel is only 50% accurate, a very poor effort. Yes, it鈥檚 about men, but there鈥檚 little or nothing about mice in these pages. Mice enthusiasts will come away disappointed. This got me thinking about other novel titles. You would have to say that such books as The Slap, The Help, The Great Gatsby, Gangsta Granny, Mrs Dalloway and Hamlet have very good titles because they are all about a slap, some help, a Gatsby who was really great, a no good granny, a woman who was married to a guy called Dalloway and a Hamlet. I have no problem with those titles. But you may be poring over the pages of To Kill a Mockingbird for a long fruitless evening to find any mockingbirds coming to any harm at all. Indeed, to coin a phrase, no mockingbirds were harmed during the making of that book. So I rate that title only 5% accurate. And some titles seem to have a word missing, such as Conan Doyle鈥檚 The Sign of Four. Four what? It doesn鈥檛 say. Perhaps he completed the book and left the title to the very last minute and died as he was writing it down. Same thing with The Crimson Petal and the White. White what? Wallpaper? Hat? Cat? Mouse? Mockingbird? Could be The Crimson Petal and the White Gangsta Granny for all we know. A poor title. And what about The Dharma Bums? I think a Cigarette or You Out is clearly missing from that title. Another grossly misleading title is Women in Love . I can鈥檛 be the only reader who was expecting some strong girl on girl action from DH Lawrence but I would have been better off fast-forwarding to the middle part of Mulholland Drive. Now that鈥檚 what I call Women in Love. DH, take note. Another badly chosen title is Hitler鈥檚 Niece - yes, it is 100% accurate, but at first glance it can look like Hitler鈥檚 Nice, and surely that is going to put off a lot of potential readers (except for the readers you really don鈥檛 want).
And what about Call it Sleep? 鈥� call what sleep?
The Catcher in the Rye, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Flaubert鈥檚 Parrot, The Camomile Lawn 鈥� sometimes obscure titles can be solved if you understand that the author is referring to Death, so, the Catcher is Death, the Postman is Death, the lawn is Death and the Parrot is Death. Of course, I may have got that wrong. It鈥檚 something I read somewhere and it just stuck in my mind.
Some other titles I would give low ratings to :
The Turn of the Screw completely baffled me 鈥� I know that 鈥渟crew鈥� is what inmates call prison officers, so I was expecting a story about a concert put on by the staff of a large correctional institution. It was nothing like that.
The Little Prince according to my system does rate 100% but I still think The Little Faux-naif Idiot would have been better.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 鈥� actually, I rate this as 90% accurate 鈥� there are two guys who are named Kavalier and Clay, and they do have adventures, but they aren鈥檛 amazing.
A Clockwork Orange 鈥� this must be a metaphor for 鈥淚 have given up thinking of a title for my novel鈥�
No Name 鈥� like A Clockwork Orange this must be where the author couldn鈥檛 think of any title so in this case he left it without one, like the Byrds鈥� album Untitled, or () by Sigur Ros, or several paintings by De Kooning and those other abstract expressionist types; but to call a novel No Name is self-defeating, because No Name then becomes its name 鈥� epic fail, Mr Collins.
The Violent Bear it Away - this is another example of a word missing - possibly "took" or "dragged", I expect that's the sort of thing a violent bear would do I鈥檓 surprised the publisher did not catch this error.
And what about Call it Sleep? 鈥� call what sleep?
The Catcher in the Rye, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Flaubert鈥檚 Parrot, The Camomile Lawn 鈥� sometimes obscure titles can be solved if you understand that the author is referring to Death, so, the Catcher is Death, the Postman is Death, the lawn is Death and the Parrot is Death. Of course, I may have got that wrong. It鈥檚 something I read somewhere and it just stuck in my mind.
Some other titles I would give low ratings to :
The Turn of the Screw completely baffled me 鈥� I know that 鈥渟crew鈥� is what inmates call prison officers, so I was expecting a story about a concert put on by the staff of a large correctional institution. It was nothing like that.
The Little Prince according to my system does rate 100% but I still think The Little Faux-naif Idiot would have been better.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 鈥� actually, I rate this as 90% accurate 鈥� there are two guys who are named Kavalier and Clay, and they do have adventures, but they aren鈥檛 amazing.
A Clockwork Orange 鈥� this must be a metaphor for 鈥淚 have given up thinking of a title for my novel鈥�
No Name 鈥� like A Clockwork Orange this must be where the author couldn鈥檛 think of any title so in this case he left it without one, like the Byrds鈥� album Untitled, or () by Sigur Ros, or several paintings by De Kooning and those other abstract expressionist types; but to call a novel No Name is self-defeating, because No Name then becomes its name 鈥� epic fail, Mr Collins.
The Violent Bear it Away - this is another example of a word missing - possibly "took" or "dragged", I expect that's the sort of thing a violent bear would do I鈥檓 surprised the publisher did not catch this error.
June 16, 2012
Well, somehow I've managed to read close to 800 books by now, and none of those had been Of Mice and Men. That has been remedied now, and I'm feeling emotionally drained by it. So yeah.
I suppose pretty much everyone knows the heartbreaking story of Lennie and George. I was relatively 'unspoiled' and still knew what happened in the end. I just did not know how or why, but figured out those pretty quickly into the book. And still that did not help the sense of impending doom that was like one protracted gut punch. I think that says something about the masterful writing - where the story takes over so much that you keep reading despite the clear sense of where it is going, without having to rely on suspense or twists - instead, going forward just on the impact of the story itself
"I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog."I used to work with Special Education kids some time ago. And I have seen first-hand what Steinbeck describes in Of Mice and Men - the childlike vulnerability and innocence often combined with physical strength, just waiting for something bad to happen. The children we took care of - some of which topped my 5'3'' frame by a foot or so and outweighed me by a good hundred pounds (but despite that a few times I had to physically put myself on between them and a smaller child) - had, unlike Lennie, the society that is determined to protect them. They were luckier than poor George's charge. But I could not help but picture some of them, who have forever secured spots in my heart, in place of Lennie Small, feeling nothing but dread and sadness. Lennie, who is as innocent as one gets, and yet as much of a unwilling menace as one can be. And it was soul-crushing.
I think the impact of this story was that it did not have me taking sides. I felt bad for Lennie. I felt awful for Curley's wife who does not even have a NAME in this story. I felt sad for George and what he had to do. And I felt bad for the whole bunch of men who had names and stories, and a woman who got one but not the other.
"You God damn tramp," be said viciously. "You done it, di'n't you? I s'pose you're glad. Ever'body knowed you'd mess things up. You wasn't no good. You ain't no good now, you lousy tart."And that's where this book lost stars for me. Curley's wife, the unwilling almost-antagonist/victim of this story. The woman who had no name except for the possessive one of her husband whose property - and therefore trouble for everyone else - she was viewed as. It seemed that she was the one getting the blame, not as much the crazy volatile husband of hers. After all, she *asked* for trouble, didn't she? At least that's the nagging feeling I got from this story, from the way her character was handled, from the way it was repeatedly stated that a 'tart' like her meant trouble for a man. Blame-the-victim mentality does not sit well with me, and I can't help but think that Steinbeck did that. .
This book is definitely a classic with a profound impact on the reader, a short read that is in no way easy. It deserves the fame and recognition that it has enjoyed for quite a few years. 3.5 stars from me (it would have been 4.5 stars, but for the literary treatment of Curley's wife).
August 12, 2024
John Steinbeck鈥檚 Of Mice and Men is a novella (around 72 pages) that focuses on two men in The Great Depression Era. George is a small man while Lennie is the bigger man. They are two farmhands who have a big dream to one day own their own small place. However, George and Lennie have just been run out of town. Is this ranch their second chance? Will George and Lennie realize their dream?
Of Mice and Men is a very dark novella. I mean dark. Steinbeck is a master at setting the scene. He begins each chapter with a few paragraphs about the landscape. This sets an eerie tone, almost like sitting on top of a powder keg.
The character development in this book is really second to none. Many authors will write characters as all good or all bad. However, Steinbeck鈥檚 characters are well developed. They are not perfect, and they don鈥檛 fit nicely into one mold. That leaves the reader wondering what the character will do because they haven鈥檛 been type cast.
Of Mice and Men is chock full of symbolism. George and Lennie are obsessed with The American Dream. However, is it ever attainable? Does society treat people as interchangeable? Are our social safety nets strong and working appropriately?
Do our social safety nets work? Please allow me to answer that question from the US perspective. It is a resounding NO. Here in the United States, we have something called Social Security Disability. If you can鈥檛 work because of a disability, you can apply for this program. It takes 3 months just to get someone assigned to your case. That is 3 months without being paid. Only 22% of claims are initially approved. The average process takes 27 months (2-3 years). This is someone who cannot go out and get another job. They are disabled! Who can go 2-3 years without getting paid? Who can not pay their mortgage, their car payment, their medical bills for 2-3 years?
This is a really fun book to talk about in a book club. It was part of the April Readalong. If you want to take a look at our discussion, take a look here.
Overall, I am happy that I read this book. I really enjoyed how Steinbeck set the scene and admire how he was able to set a super creepy tone. This book has some major depth with his use of symbolism. Of Mice and Men is not long-winded. However, this book was a bit too dark for me. Thanks for everyone who participated in the Readalong!
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Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
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Of Mice and Men is a very dark novella. I mean dark. Steinbeck is a master at setting the scene. He begins each chapter with a few paragraphs about the landscape. This sets an eerie tone, almost like sitting on top of a powder keg.
The character development in this book is really second to none. Many authors will write characters as all good or all bad. However, Steinbeck鈥檚 characters are well developed. They are not perfect, and they don鈥檛 fit nicely into one mold. That leaves the reader wondering what the character will do because they haven鈥檛 been type cast.
Of Mice and Men is chock full of symbolism. George and Lennie are obsessed with The American Dream. However, is it ever attainable? Does society treat people as interchangeable? Are our social safety nets strong and working appropriately?
Do our social safety nets work? Please allow me to answer that question from the US perspective. It is a resounding NO. Here in the United States, we have something called Social Security Disability. If you can鈥檛 work because of a disability, you can apply for this program. It takes 3 months just to get someone assigned to your case. That is 3 months without being paid. Only 22% of claims are initially approved. The average process takes 27 months (2-3 years). This is someone who cannot go out and get another job. They are disabled! Who can go 2-3 years without getting paid? Who can not pay their mortgage, their car payment, their medical bills for 2-3 years?
This is a really fun book to talk about in a book club. It was part of the April Readalong. If you want to take a look at our discussion, take a look here.
Overall, I am happy that I read this book. I really enjoyed how Steinbeck set the scene and admire how he was able to set a super creepy tone. This book has some major depth with his use of symbolism. Of Mice and Men is not long-winded. However, this book was a bit too dark for me. Thanks for everyone who participated in the Readalong!
2025 Reading Schedule
Jan A Town Like Alice
Feb Birdsong
Mar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Berniere
Apr War and Peace
May The Woman in White
Jun Atonement
Jul The Shadow of the Wind
Aug Jude the Obscure
Sep Ulysses
Oct Vanity Fair
Nov A Fine Balance
Dec Germinal
Connect With Me!
November 12, 2009
I needed a quick read because I stupidly forgot that the library would be closed yesterday for Veteran's Day. I'd exhausted my current supply, and I needed a short term fix to hold me until I could get some new product today. So I grabbed Of Mice and Men off the bookshelf last night.
And I'm glad I did because I'd somehow remembered that this was a depressing book. How wrong I was! Oh, sure there were some tense moments like when you think Lennie will accidently hurt Curley's wife in the barn. What a relief when George and Candy come in at the last minute and stop anything bad from happening! And isn't it nice that the scare changes both Curley and his wife so that they have a much better marriage and new appreciation for each other.
Plus, it leads to the great moment when Curley is so grateful that he fronts George, Lennie and Candy the money to finally buy the ranch of their dreams. Oh, and that last scene with George and Candy on the porch of their new home while Lennie tends the rabbits brought a tear to my eye.
What's that you say? I got the ending wrong? No, I'm quite certain this is what happened. No! Be quiet! I can't hear you! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
And I'm glad I did because I'd somehow remembered that this was a depressing book. How wrong I was! Oh, sure there were some tense moments like when you think Lennie will accidently hurt Curley's wife in the barn. What a relief when George and Candy come in at the last minute and stop anything bad from happening! And isn't it nice that the scare changes both Curley and his wife so that they have a much better marriage and new appreciation for each other.
Plus, it leads to the great moment when Curley is so grateful that he fronts George, Lennie and Candy the money to finally buy the ranch of their dreams. Oh, and that last scene with George and Candy on the porch of their new home while Lennie tends the rabbits brought a tear to my eye.
What's that you say? I got the ending wrong? No, I'm quite certain this is what happened. No! Be quiet! I can't hear you! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
November 17, 2020
I remember reading this at school at being completely uninterested in the story. I remember the teacher droning on about basic plot allegories before we read each section; she would tell us what certain things 鈥渕eant鈥� before we had even seen them. She would explain how this portrays a vital part of American culture and a vital element of human nature. All in all we were told what to see in the book before we even began reading.
Perhaps she should have just let us read it first, and see what we took from it before being told how to read it. I hated it at the time. I hated being told that passages meant certain things when clearly criticism is just speculation. This wasn鈥檛 effective teaching: it was being told how to think. She should have prized open our minds and made us engage with it more. When I approached it again years later I did so with more of an open mind, I was determined to find more in the book than I鈥檇 been taught to see.
And I did. Lenny and George naively dream of the farm; they dream of a retreat where they can reside in friendship without having to answer to any master. They wouldn鈥檛 have to go to work; they can simply work for themselves. Running their own farm would mean that they are self-sustainable. They could grow crops for themselves and choose when they laboured: they would be free. Well George wants this. Lenny just wants a few rabbits to pet. The attractiveness of the dream draws in Candy, who is very old and very lonely. He doesn鈥檛 want to end up like his dog: put down because of his years. He wants someone to protect him and care for him in his advanced years. The three become united by this shared dream but it is nothing but fancy.
鈥淛ust like heaven. Ever鈥檅ody wants a little piece of lan鈥�. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It鈥檚 just in their head. They鈥檙e all the time talkin鈥� about it, but it鈥檚 jus鈥� in their head.鈥�
Indeed, the American dream doesn鈥檛 exist in this book. Only harsh cold reality awaits the protagonists. Crooks, for all his cruel and understandable bitterness, was right in the end. The farm is just a dream. It is evocative of the loneliness within the human soul, and how we will always long for the impossible. It鈥檚 impossible because there is no sunset over the rainbow. Life doesn鈥檛 quite work like that. People don鈥檛 always get what they want. The world is a cruel unforgiving place here. This is embodied by Lenny; he is vulnerable and emotionally weak. He is completely unaware of the vicious strength he possesses. He never truly understands the situation. He almost walks through the world blind. The world he sees is different to that of everyone else鈥檚.
So this is a story about the outsiders, about the unloved and misunderstood. This a story about those that long for an alternative to the drudgery of standard human existence, but have their expectations cut short. This is a story about how we judge people based upon their appearance and how we label them unjustly. This is a story that Mary Shelley would have loved, a story where a character with an innocent heart is destroyed by the world he should have been accepted by.
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Perhaps she should have just let us read it first, and see what we took from it before being told how to read it. I hated it at the time. I hated being told that passages meant certain things when clearly criticism is just speculation. This wasn鈥檛 effective teaching: it was being told how to think. She should have prized open our minds and made us engage with it more. When I approached it again years later I did so with more of an open mind, I was determined to find more in the book than I鈥檇 been taught to see.
And I did. Lenny and George naively dream of the farm; they dream of a retreat where they can reside in friendship without having to answer to any master. They wouldn鈥檛 have to go to work; they can simply work for themselves. Running their own farm would mean that they are self-sustainable. They could grow crops for themselves and choose when they laboured: they would be free. Well George wants this. Lenny just wants a few rabbits to pet. The attractiveness of the dream draws in Candy, who is very old and very lonely. He doesn鈥檛 want to end up like his dog: put down because of his years. He wants someone to protect him and care for him in his advanced years. The three become united by this shared dream but it is nothing but fancy.
鈥淛ust like heaven. Ever鈥檅ody wants a little piece of lan鈥�. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It鈥檚 just in their head. They鈥檙e all the time talkin鈥� about it, but it鈥檚 jus鈥� in their head.鈥�
Indeed, the American dream doesn鈥檛 exist in this book. Only harsh cold reality awaits the protagonists. Crooks, for all his cruel and understandable bitterness, was right in the end. The farm is just a dream. It is evocative of the loneliness within the human soul, and how we will always long for the impossible. It鈥檚 impossible because there is no sunset over the rainbow. Life doesn鈥檛 quite work like that. People don鈥檛 always get what they want. The world is a cruel unforgiving place here. This is embodied by Lenny; he is vulnerable and emotionally weak. He is completely unaware of the vicious strength he possesses. He never truly understands the situation. He almost walks through the world blind. The world he sees is different to that of everyone else鈥檚.
So this is a story about the outsiders, about the unloved and misunderstood. This a story about those that long for an alternative to the drudgery of standard human existence, but have their expectations cut short. This is a story about how we judge people based upon their appearance and how we label them unjustly. This is a story that Mary Shelley would have loved, a story where a character with an innocent heart is destroyed by the world he should have been accepted by.
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May 21, 2016
鈥淭rouble with mice is you always kill 'em. 鈥�
Breathtaking prose, touching characters and a heart breaking ending. Who said only lengthy novel can make an impact?
Breathtaking prose, touching characters and a heart breaking ending. Who said only lengthy novel can make an impact?
July 31, 2023
Of Mice and Men is a tale about the ultimate kindness - it is hard to talk about kindness without turning sentimental but John Steinbeck was the one who really could.
Simple-minded men of this cruel world live in their own dreamlands and they dream of rainbows.
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
Simple-minded men of this cruel world live in their own dreamlands and they dream of rainbows.
August 1, 2021
(Book 608 from 1001 books) - Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937.
Of Mice and Men tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.
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賲鬲乇噩賲: 賵賱蹖 丕賱賱賴 丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 爻毓蹖丿蹖貙 1348貙 丿乇 175氐貨 趩丕倬 亘毓丿蹖 1363貙 丿乇 203氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲賴丿蹖 禺賵丕賳爻丕乇蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 趩讴丕賵讴貙 1362貙 丿乇 195氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 倬诏丕賴貙 1369貙 丿乇 195氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 诏賱亘乇诏 亘乇夭蹖賳貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賱賲賴乇貙 1381貙 丿乇 137氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9647438060貨 丿乇 137氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕賱賴丕賲 鬲丕亘毓 丕丨賲丿蹖貨 丕氐賮賴丕賳貙 噩賳诏賱貙 1382貙 丿乇 79氐貨 丿賵 夭亘丕賳賴貙 卮丕亘讴 9646089857貨
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賲鬲乇噩賲: 倬乇蹖爻丕 賲丨賲丿蹖貨 讴乇噩貙 丿乇 丿丕賳卮貙 1387貙 丿乇 102氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789641740940貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 爻乇賵卮 丨亘蹖亘蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲丕賴蹖貙 1388貙 丿乇 154氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789642090594貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1392貨 趩丕倬 倬賳噩賲 1395貨 卮丕亘讴 9789642091522貨 丿乇 160氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲蹖賳丕 賮乇丕賴丕賳蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮乇賴賳诏 夭亘丕賳貙 1389貙 丿乇 84氐貨 丿賵 夭亘丕賳賴貙 卮丕亘讴 9789648794670貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕蹖賲丕賳 賯丕丿乇蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕亘乇爻賮蹖丿貙 1391貙 丿乇 227氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9786009254507貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕丨爻丕賳 賯丕丿乇蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕亘乇爻賮蹖丿貙 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1393貙 丿乇 216氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9786009254507貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲賴丿蹖 丕賮卮丕乇貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 亘賴 爻禺賳貙 1394貙 丿乇 160氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9786007987018貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賮乇夭丕賲 丨亘蹖亘蹖 丕氐賮賴丕賳蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 夭丕賵蹖賴貙 1395貙 丿乇 154氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789649562032貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇貙 賳卮乇 賴乇賲貙 1395貨 卮丕亘讴 9789648882674貨
賴卮丿丕乇: 丕诏乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 禺賵丿 賲蹖禺賵丕賴蹖丿 亘禺賵丕賳蹖丿貙 丕夭 禺賵丕賳卮 乇蹖賵蹖賵 禺賵丿丿丕乇蹖 賮乇賲丕卅蹖丿貨
丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 芦噩乇噩 賲蹖賱鬲賵賳禄貙 賵 芦賱賳蹖 丕爻賲丕賱禄貙 丿賵 丿賵爻鬲 賴爻鬲賳丿貙 讴賴 乇賵夭诏丕乇 禺賵蹖卮 乇丕 丿乇 丕爻亘丿丕乇蹖鈥屬囏ж� 賲蹖鈥屭柏必з嗁嗀� 丌乇夭賵蹖 丿蹖乇蹖賳 丌賳賴丕 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲貙 讴賴 乇賵夭蹖 噩丕蹖蹖 乇丕 亘禺乇賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 丌賳噩丕 芦禺乇诏賵卮禄 倬乇賵乇卮 丿賴賳丿貨 芦賱賳蹖禄 丕夭 讴賵丿讴蹖貙 丕夭 賳賵丕夭卮 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖 賳乇賲貙 禺賵卮卮 賲蹖丌蹖丿貙 賵 夭賵乇 亘丕夭賵蹖 亘爻蹖丕乇 丿丕乇丿貨 丕賵 趩賳丿丕賳 亘丕賴賵卮 賳蹖爻鬲貨 丿趩丕乇 丿乇丿爻乇 賲蹖卮賵丿貙 亘賴 賵蹖跇賴 賴賳诏丕賲蹖 讴賴 夭賳 倬爻乇 丕乇亘丕亘貙 芦讴乇賱蹖禄貙 丕夭 丕賵 賲蹖禺賵丕賴丿 鬲丕 賲賵賴丕蹖卮 乇丕 賳賵丕夭卮 讴賳丿貨 芦賱賳蹖禄 賳丕禺賵丕爻鬲賴 夭賳 亘蹖趩丕乇賴 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屭┴簇� 賵 丕夭 鬲乇爻 賲蹖鈥屭臂屫藏� 芦讴乇賱蹖禄 禺卮賲诏蹖賳貙 亘丕 賲乇丿丕賳卮貙 丿乇 倬蹖 蹖丕賮鬲賳 賵 丕夭 倬丕蹖 丿乇丌賵乇丿賳 芦賱賳蹖禄貙 乇丕賴蹖 賲蹖卮賵賳丿貨 芦噩乇噩禄 賴賲貙 亘賴 乇睾賲 爻賵诏賳丿卮貙 亘乇丕蹖 倬卮鬲蹖亘丕賳蹖 丕夭 芦賱賳蹖禄貙 亘賴 诏乇賵賴 賲蹖倬蹖賵賳丿丿貨 賵 ...貨
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 28/05/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 09/05/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937.
Of Mice and Men tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦賲賵卮賴丕 賵 丌丿賲賴丕禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 噩丕賳 丕爻鬲丕蹖賳鈥屫ㄚ� (丕卮鬲丕蹖賳 亘讴)貨 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲蹖賴丕蹖: (丕爻丕胤蹖乇貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇貙 讴丕賳賵賳 賲毓乇賮鬲貙 夭乇蹖賳貙 賲丿亘乇貙 毓賱蹖 賮乇賴賳诏蹖貙 爻毓蹖丿蹖貙 趩讴丕賵讴貙 诏賱亘乇诏 亘乇夭蹖賳貙 噩賳诏賱貙 丿乇 丿丕賳卮貙 诏賱賲賴乇貙 诏賵蹖卮 賳賵貙 賲丕賴蹖貙 賵 ...)貨 丕丿亘蹖丕鬲貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 爻丕賱 1974賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 賲賵卮賴丕 賵 丌丿賲賴丕貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 噩丕賳 丕爻鬲丕蹖賳鈥屫ㄚ� (丕卮鬲丕蹖賳 亘讴)貨 賲鬲乇噩賲 倬乇賵蹖夭 丿丕乇蹖賵卮貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕賲蹖乇讴亘蹖乇貙 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1340貙 丿乇 104氐貨 趩丕倬 爻賵賲 爻丕賱1356貙 趩丕倬 趩賴丕乇賲 1362貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 讴丕賳賵賳 賲毓乇賮鬲貙 1345貙 丿乇 184氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 夭乇蹖賳貙 1362貙 丿乇 202氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕爻丕胤蹖乇貙 1366貙 丿乇 137氐貨 趩丕倬 亘毓丿蹖 1389貙 丿乇 136氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789643314675貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲丿亘乇貙 1370貙 丿乇 167氐貨 趩丕倬 亘毓丿蹖 1388貙 丿乇 172氐貙 卮丕亘讴 9789646631670貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 丕賳鬲卮丕乇丕鬲 毓賱賲蹖 賮乇賴賳诏蹖貙 1394貙 丿乇 139氐貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 丕賲乇蹖讴丕蹖蹖 - 爻丿賴 20賲
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賵賱蹖 丕賱賱賴 丕亘乇丕賴蹖賲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 爻毓蹖丿蹖貙 1348貙 丿乇 175氐貨 趩丕倬 亘毓丿蹖 1363貙 丿乇 203氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲賴丿蹖 禺賵丕賳爻丕乇蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 趩讴丕賵讴貙 1362貙 丿乇 195氐貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 倬诏丕賴貙 1369貙 丿乇 195氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 诏賱亘乇诏 亘乇夭蹖賳貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賱賲賴乇貙 1381貙 丿乇 137氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9647438060貨 丿乇 137氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕賱賴丕賲 鬲丕亘毓 丕丨賲丿蹖貨 丕氐賮賴丕賳貙 噩賳诏賱貙 1382貙 丿乇 79氐貨 丿賵 夭亘丕賳賴貙 卮丕亘讴 9646089857貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲丨賲丿氐丕丿賯 卮乇蹖毓鬲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 诏賵蹖卮 賳賵貙 1387貙 丿乇 87氐貨 丿賵 夭亘丕賳賴貙 卮丕亘讴 9789649616841貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 倬乇蹖爻丕 賲丨賲丿蹖貨 讴乇噩貙 丿乇 丿丕賳卮貙 1387貙 丿乇 102氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789641740940貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 爻乇賵卮 丨亘蹖亘蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賲丕賴蹖貙 1388貙 丿乇 154氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789642090594貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1392貨 趩丕倬 倬賳噩賲 1395貨 卮丕亘讴 9789642091522貨 丿乇 160氐貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲蹖賳丕 賮乇丕賴丕賳蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賮乇賴賳诏 夭亘丕賳貙 1389貙 丿乇 84氐貨 丿賵 夭亘丕賳賴貙 卮丕亘讴 9789648794670貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕蹖賲丕賳 賯丕丿乇蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕亘乇爻賮蹖丿貙 1391貙 丿乇 227氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9786009254507貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕丨爻丕賳 賯丕丿乇蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丕亘乇爻賮蹖丿貙 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 1393貙 丿乇 216氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9786009254507貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賲賴丿蹖 丕賮卮丕乇貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 亘賴 爻禺賳貙 1394貙 丿乇 160氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9786007987018貨
賲鬲乇噩賲: 賮乇夭丕賲 丨亘蹖亘蹖 丕氐賮賴丕賳蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 夭丕賵蹖賴貙 1395貙 丿乇 154氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9789649562032貨 趩丕倬 丿蹖诏乇貙 賳卮乇 賴乇賲貙 1395貨 卮丕亘讴 9789648882674貨
賴卮丿丕乇: 丕诏乇 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 禺賵丿 賲蹖禺賵丕賴蹖丿 亘禺賵丕賳蹖丿貙 丕夭 禺賵丕賳卮 乇蹖賵蹖賵 禺賵丿丿丕乇蹖 賮乇賲丕卅蹖丿貨
丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 芦噩乇噩 賲蹖賱鬲賵賳禄貙 賵 芦賱賳蹖 丕爻賲丕賱禄貙 丿賵 丿賵爻鬲 賴爻鬲賳丿貙 讴賴 乇賵夭诏丕乇 禺賵蹖卮 乇丕 丿乇 丕爻亘丿丕乇蹖鈥屬囏ж� 賲蹖鈥屭柏必з嗁嗀� 丌乇夭賵蹖 丿蹖乇蹖賳 丌賳賴丕 丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲貙 讴賴 乇賵夭蹖 噩丕蹖蹖 乇丕 亘禺乇賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 丌賳噩丕 芦禺乇诏賵卮禄 倬乇賵乇卮 丿賴賳丿貨 芦賱賳蹖禄 丕夭 讴賵丿讴蹖貙 丕夭 賳賵丕夭卮 趩蹖夭賴丕蹖 賳乇賲貙 禺賵卮卮 賲蹖丌蹖丿貙 賵 夭賵乇 亘丕夭賵蹖 亘爻蹖丕乇 丿丕乇丿貨 丕賵 趩賳丿丕賳 亘丕賴賵卮 賳蹖爻鬲貨 丿趩丕乇 丿乇丿爻乇 賲蹖卮賵丿貙 亘賴 賵蹖跇賴 賴賳诏丕賲蹖 讴賴 夭賳 倬爻乇 丕乇亘丕亘貙 芦讴乇賱蹖禄貙 丕夭 丕賵 賲蹖禺賵丕賴丿 鬲丕 賲賵賴丕蹖卮 乇丕 賳賵丕夭卮 讴賳丿貨 芦賱賳蹖禄 賳丕禺賵丕爻鬲賴 夭賳 亘蹖趩丕乇賴 乇丕 賲蹖鈥屭┴簇� 賵 丕夭 鬲乇爻 賲蹖鈥屭臂屫藏� 芦讴乇賱蹖禄 禺卮賲诏蹖賳貙 亘丕 賲乇丿丕賳卮貙 丿乇 倬蹖 蹖丕賮鬲賳 賵 丕夭 倬丕蹖 丿乇丌賵乇丿賳 芦賱賳蹖禄貙 乇丕賴蹖 賲蹖卮賵賳丿貨 芦噩乇噩禄 賴賲貙 亘賴 乇睾賲 爻賵诏賳丿卮貙 亘乇丕蹖 倬卮鬲蹖亘丕賳蹖 丕夭 芦賱賳蹖禄貙 亘賴 诏乇賵賴 賲蹖倬蹖賵賳丿丿貨 賵 ...貨
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November 9, 2024
Oh shit. Don't laugh at me but I just now got this:
Of Mice & Men has been on my bucket list for a while. It's one of those stories that are kind of everywhere, but somehow I've still managed to avoid spoilers for the past 45 years.
How?
I'm going to go out on a long shaky limb and say it's probably because nothing about me lends itself to paying any attention to mopey books about ranch hands.
Steinbeck covers a lot of ground in this relatively small tale. The casually horrible racism, the plight of a man who has the mind of a child, and the bleak outlook for the poor and uneducated once they've passed their point of usefulness. And of course, those painted tarts that flirt and wreck a man's sanity. <--somehow it doesn't surprise me that the hoe was the villain of the piece.
So. The moral of the story is that you shouldn't pet animals too hard or they'll get all dead and floppy, you shouldn't be a mean skank because nobody wants to catch herpes from a complete bitch, and sometimes you just need to shoot a guy in the head to be nice.
That's it, right? Right...?
Or.
Maybe the moral of the story is just that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, shit just goes sideways.
Yes, it was poignant and worth reading. But more important to me, it was blessedly short. I don't think I would have wanted to endure living in that depressing story for any longer than I did.
PS
Gary Sinise was an unbelievably incredible narrator. I mean, I actually had to go back and make sure this audiobook didn't have a full cast because his voices were so distinct.
Of Mice & Men has been on my bucket list for a while. It's one of those stories that are kind of everywhere, but somehow I've still managed to avoid spoilers for the past 45 years.
How?
I'm going to go out on a long shaky limb and say it's probably because nothing about me lends itself to paying any attention to mopey books about ranch hands.
Steinbeck covers a lot of ground in this relatively small tale. The casually horrible racism, the plight of a man who has the mind of a child, and the bleak outlook for the poor and uneducated once they've passed their point of usefulness. And of course, those painted tarts that flirt and wreck a man's sanity. <--somehow it doesn't surprise me that the hoe was the villain of the piece.
So. The moral of the story is that you shouldn't pet animals too hard or they'll get all dead and floppy, you shouldn't be a mean skank because nobody wants to catch herpes from a complete bitch, and sometimes you just need to shoot a guy in the head to be nice.
That's it, right? Right...?
Or.
Maybe the moral of the story is just that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, shit just goes sideways.
Yes, it was poignant and worth reading. But more important to me, it was blessedly short. I don't think I would have wanted to endure living in that depressing story for any longer than I did.
PS
Gary Sinise was an unbelievably incredible narrator. I mean, I actually had to go back and make sure this audiobook didn't have a full cast because his voices were so distinct.
August 30, 2020
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves..."
Oscar Wilde's prison poem came to mind not only for its literal truth in the context of Lenny and George, but also because it evokes the brutal isolation of the whole cast of characters, each one of them stuck in their separate reality and unable to connect with each other. The young lonely wife has nobody to confide in, and keeps looking for trouble out of sheer isolation. The black man is so utterly alone that he is almost insane, and the barrier of his skin colour is even more impenetrable than the woman's gender. George's loneliness is connected to his responsibility for Lenny, and Lenny himself is in the brutal prison of his intellectual inferiority and herculean strength. Even the boss' son is in a no man's land between privilege and torture.
The dream of sharing a future together keeps the men's spirits alive for a while, and it is contagious. Breaking out of the isolation, enjoying freedom and partnership - those are powerful ideas.
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves..."
The domino effect of Lenny's inability to control his strength or his craving for softness and love makes all dreamers wake up to a nightmare without end. The only solace is finding another human being who understands enough of the pain of killing what one loves to offer a sign of support or friendship in the misery of reality.
Lenny broke my heart, and yet I had to smile at his limited vision over and over again. When I first read this novel, I was a busy teenager, bored and frustrated that school picked my reading materials for me, not willing to enter into the confused minds of men with whom I had seemingly nothing in common. With hindsight, I see myself in a cloud of ignorance, not fully grasping what happened around me, missing a masterpiece in the process - I was very much like Lenny myself, unaware of the bigger picture of what was going on around me. Reading Of Mice and Men now, to prepare a teaching unit for a new generation of fifteen-year-olds, I find myself more in the role of George, gently coaxing, carefully repeating the information I consider crucial, avoiding too much detail out of fear to completely lose the attention of my students. Lenny and George live a life of their own in my head now, and they have transcended their bitter story and become part of mine.
Just what one expects of a great classic!
Oscar Wilde's prison poem came to mind not only for its literal truth in the context of Lenny and George, but also because it evokes the brutal isolation of the whole cast of characters, each one of them stuck in their separate reality and unable to connect with each other. The young lonely wife has nobody to confide in, and keeps looking for trouble out of sheer isolation. The black man is so utterly alone that he is almost insane, and the barrier of his skin colour is even more impenetrable than the woman's gender. George's loneliness is connected to his responsibility for Lenny, and Lenny himself is in the brutal prison of his intellectual inferiority and herculean strength. Even the boss' son is in a no man's land between privilege and torture.
The dream of sharing a future together keeps the men's spirits alive for a while, and it is contagious. Breaking out of the isolation, enjoying freedom and partnership - those are powerful ideas.
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves..."
The domino effect of Lenny's inability to control his strength or his craving for softness and love makes all dreamers wake up to a nightmare without end. The only solace is finding another human being who understands enough of the pain of killing what one loves to offer a sign of support or friendship in the misery of reality.
Lenny broke my heart, and yet I had to smile at his limited vision over and over again. When I first read this novel, I was a busy teenager, bored and frustrated that school picked my reading materials for me, not willing to enter into the confused minds of men with whom I had seemingly nothing in common. With hindsight, I see myself in a cloud of ignorance, not fully grasping what happened around me, missing a masterpiece in the process - I was very much like Lenny myself, unaware of the bigger picture of what was going on around me. Reading Of Mice and Men now, to prepare a teaching unit for a new generation of fifteen-year-olds, I find myself more in the role of George, gently coaxing, carefully repeating the information I consider crucial, avoiding too much detail out of fear to completely lose the attention of my students. Lenny and George live a life of their own in my head now, and they have transcended their bitter story and become part of mine.
Just what one expects of a great classic!
April 22, 2024
Sometimes people can do awful things, sometimes they mean it, and sometimes they don't.
In this novel we learn the story of "George" and "Lennie". Two wandering day laborers traveling together; from work to work, from trouble to trouble. One small and cunning; the other giant, and retarded. Working from city to city, from field to field, but always protecting each other. A dream pushes them forward, work the fields until one day have enough to purchase a small farm of their own. A place where George can work the land, and Lennie tend the rabbits. But there are difficulties, Lennie in his brutish innocence tends to get himself into serious problems, and more often that not, both.
A short but very memorable read from the famed Pulitzer winner John Steinbeck. A little 100p novella about the unbreakable bonds of friendship, and the cruelties of a sometimes hostile rural world.
**** One of those very few exceptions where the movie may actually match the book. John Steinbeck creates two immortal characters, but the movie (1992) gives them a real palpable soul. Mainly due to the exceptional performance of John Malkovich, and a very remarkable Gary Sinise. Brilliant book-to-film adaptation.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1937] [103p] [Fiction] [3.5] [Recommendable]
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� Of Mice and Men. [3.5]
鈽呪槄鈽嗏槅鈽� Flight.
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A veces la gente puede hacer cosas terribles, a veces lo hacen a prop贸sito, y a veces no.
En esta novela conocemos la historia de "George" y "Lennie". Dos jornaleros errantes viajando juntos; de trabajo en trabajo, de problema en problema. Uno peque帽o y astuto, otro gigante y retardado. Trabajando de ciudad en ciudad, de campo en campo, pero siempre protegi茅ndose el uno al otro. Un sue帽o los motiva a seguir juntos, trabajar los campos hasta alg煤n d铆a tener lo suficiente para comprar una peque帽a parcela propia. Un lugar donde George pueda trabajar la tierra, y Lennie cuidar de los conejos. Pero existen dificultades, Lennie en su bruta inocencia tiende a meterse en serios aprietos... y m谩s que a menudo, a ambos.
Una lectura corta pero muy memorable del afamado ganador del Pulitzer John Steinbeck. Una peque帽a novella de 100p sobre los fuertes lazos de la amistad, y las crueldades en un mundo campestre a veces hostil.
*** Una de esas peque帽as excepciones donde la pel铆cula tal vez supera la obra escrita. John Steinbeck crea dos personajes inmortales, pero la pel铆cula (1992) les otorga un alma real. Principalmente gracias a las actuaci贸n excepcional de John Malkovich, y un muy destacado Gary Sinise. Brillante adaptaci贸n de cine.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1937] [103p] [Ficci贸n] [3.5] [Recomendable]
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In this novel we learn the story of "George" and "Lennie". Two wandering day laborers traveling together; from work to work, from trouble to trouble. One small and cunning; the other giant, and retarded. Working from city to city, from field to field, but always protecting each other. A dream pushes them forward, work the fields until one day have enough to purchase a small farm of their own. A place where George can work the land, and Lennie tend the rabbits. But there are difficulties, Lennie in his brutish innocence tends to get himself into serious problems, and more often that not, both.
A short but very memorable read from the famed Pulitzer winner John Steinbeck. A little 100p novella about the unbreakable bonds of friendship, and the cruelties of a sometimes hostile rural world.
**** One of those very few exceptions where the movie may actually match the book. John Steinbeck creates two immortal characters, but the movie (1992) gives them a real palpable soul. Mainly due to the exceptional performance of John Malkovich, and a very remarkable Gary Sinise. Brilliant book-to-film adaptation.
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PERSONAL NOTE :
[1937] [103p] [Fiction] [3.5] [Recommendable]
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鈽呪槄鈽呪槄鈽� Of Mice and Men. [3.5]
鈽呪槄鈽嗏槅鈽� Flight.
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A veces la gente puede hacer cosas terribles, a veces lo hacen a prop贸sito, y a veces no.
En esta novela conocemos la historia de "George" y "Lennie". Dos jornaleros errantes viajando juntos; de trabajo en trabajo, de problema en problema. Uno peque帽o y astuto, otro gigante y retardado. Trabajando de ciudad en ciudad, de campo en campo, pero siempre protegi茅ndose el uno al otro. Un sue帽o los motiva a seguir juntos, trabajar los campos hasta alg煤n d铆a tener lo suficiente para comprar una peque帽a parcela propia. Un lugar donde George pueda trabajar la tierra, y Lennie cuidar de los conejos. Pero existen dificultades, Lennie en su bruta inocencia tiende a meterse en serios aprietos... y m谩s que a menudo, a ambos.
Una lectura corta pero muy memorable del afamado ganador del Pulitzer John Steinbeck. Una peque帽a novella de 100p sobre los fuertes lazos de la amistad, y las crueldades en un mundo campestre a veces hostil.
*** Una de esas peque帽as excepciones donde la pel铆cula tal vez supera la obra escrita. John Steinbeck crea dos personajes inmortales, pero la pel铆cula (1992) les otorga un alma real. Principalmente gracias a las actuaci贸n excepcional de John Malkovich, y un muy destacado Gary Sinise. Brillante adaptaci贸n de cine.
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NOTA PERSONAL :
[1937] [103p] [Ficci贸n] [3.5] [Recomendable]
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November 15, 2022
Can't believe some teachers make teenagers read this in school.
Don't get me wrong, this was good but it's so... miserable. Everyone's live is so awful.
I need to continue reading more by the author!
Edit: I know the misery is the point. Doesn't mean I enjoyed reading it. It was fine just not a favorite.
Don't get me wrong, this was good but it's so... miserable. Everyone's live is so awful.
I need to continue reading more by the author!
Edit: I know the misery is the point. Doesn't mean I enjoyed reading it. It was fine just not a favorite.
November 5, 2017
I think I've been avoiding John Steinbeck, consciously or subconsciously, ever since I was a horse-loving teenager and thought that would be a nice, pleasant book to read.
I didn't read any Steinbeck books for years.
But I was in the local library, puttering around in the general fiction shelves, and happened to pull this one out and noticed how short it was--only 107 pages. I had just finished reading , which was a 127-page overdose of cheesy 70's inspiration, and it occurred to me that by reading this book to offset JLS I could restore the cosmic balance in my life, or something like that.
Lennie and George are a unique pair of friends: George is restless, intelligent and often short-tempered; Lennie is huge and incredibly strong, although mentally damaged. He has a childlike sweetness but is easily confused and frightened, and that combined with his strength makes him threatening to others. Somehow, despite their differences, the two have formed a friendship. George tries to protect Lennie from the world . . . and the world from Lennie. It's a difficult task. But they have their dreams and plans of a place of their own, where they can tend a garden and raise animals. And Lennie can take care of the rabbits. It's the most heavenly thing he can imagine.
George and Lennie are hired as field hands at a ranch in California, and the foreshadowings of disaster start to come thick and fast. An old sheepdog whose usefulness has passed is unceremoniously shot. The owner's son Curley comes around to their bunkhouse, spoiling for a fight. Curley's young, bored wife comes around even more often, looking for a different kind of trouble. The hands are sure that they only need a month or two of wages to achieve their plans of a place of their own, but the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang oft agley.
I was expecting to read about shattered dreams, but I was surprised and touched by the strength of the theme of true friendship--not just the friendship between George and Lennie, but also the friendship and understanding offered by Slim, the ranch foreman. With all of the loneliness and cruelty and loss and disappointment that life can bring, it's this one message of hope that I choose to take away from this short but powerful book.
I didn't read any Steinbeck books for years.
But I was in the local library, puttering around in the general fiction shelves, and happened to pull this one out and noticed how short it was--only 107 pages. I had just finished reading , which was a 127-page overdose of cheesy 70's inspiration, and it occurred to me that by reading this book to offset JLS I could restore the cosmic balance in my life, or something like that.
Lennie and George are a unique pair of friends: George is restless, intelligent and often short-tempered; Lennie is huge and incredibly strong, although mentally damaged. He has a childlike sweetness but is easily confused and frightened, and that combined with his strength makes him threatening to others. Somehow, despite their differences, the two have formed a friendship. George tries to protect Lennie from the world . . . and the world from Lennie. It's a difficult task. But they have their dreams and plans of a place of their own, where they can tend a garden and raise animals. And Lennie can take care of the rabbits. It's the most heavenly thing he can imagine.
George and Lennie are hired as field hands at a ranch in California, and the foreshadowings of disaster start to come thick and fast. An old sheepdog whose usefulness has passed is unceremoniously shot. The owner's son Curley comes around to their bunkhouse, spoiling for a fight. Curley's young, bored wife comes around even more often, looking for a different kind of trouble. The hands are sure that they only need a month or two of wages to achieve their plans of a place of their own, but the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang oft agley.
I was expecting to read about shattered dreams, but I was surprised and touched by the strength of the theme of true friendship--not just the friendship between George and Lennie, but also the friendship and understanding offered by Slim, the ranch foreman. With all of the loneliness and cruelty and loss and disappointment that life can bring, it's this one message of hope that I choose to take away from this short but powerful book.
September 22, 2024
Of Mice & Men, by the modern American author John Steinbeck, is a powerful and moving analysis of life during the Depression of the American era. It deals with the lives of two ranch farm hands, Lennie and George. Lennie is a simple, backward man who is tall and powerful but kind. George is the brains of the outfit, who organizes and arranges for them to get work on the ranches and farms as they travel and dream of getting their place, where they can make some money, have a home, and where Lennie can have lots of rabbits to play with and stroke.
The short novel is set out in acts as though it were a play and begins with the two men having to run away from the ranch they are working at, as Lennie has gotten too fond of one of the women on the farm who was kind to him. As he is pure and likes soft things, he stroked the lady's dress and accused her of trying to attack her. They run off and hide until the men stop searching, then move on to another ranch where they have work lined up.
The novel is about friendship, loneliness, plans, and broken dreams during the Depression. It hits America in the '50s鈥攁 must-read.
The short novel is set out in acts as though it were a play and begins with the two men having to run away from the ranch they are working at, as Lennie has gotten too fond of one of the women on the farm who was kind to him. As he is pure and likes soft things, he stroked the lady's dress and accused her of trying to attack her. They run off and hide until the men stop searching, then move on to another ranch where they have work lined up.
The novel is about friendship, loneliness, plans, and broken dreams during the Depression. It hits America in the '50s鈥攁 must-read.
September 13, 2021
Well I finally got round to reading it, and I鈥檓 pleased to say I wasn鈥檛 disappointed. Steinbeck鈥檚 descriptions are such that you need no imagination. Touching and beautifully written.
August 8, 2021
"Hey Tim, old buddy鈥� I hear you've been depressed recently. A book should cheer you up, right?"
"Why yes Tim, that sounds delightful. Got any good ideas?"
"How about a classic?"
"Brilliant idea Tim! One I haven't read?"
"Of course! How about Steinbeck?"
"I don't know鈥� I hear he's a bit depressing."
"Come now, it's only 105 pages! How depressing could it be?"
鈥�
Should I just end the review there? Nah, of course not.
Of Mice and Men is one of those books that pretty much everyone has read. I once saw an article that said it was one of the most commonly read books in High School classes in America. Somehow it is another one of those classics that I managed to never have assigned to me in both High School or College (and I majored in English). Well, I've read it now. My thoughts?
Well, it's a wonderfully well told story, frequently feeling more like a play than a novel, but I mean that as a compliment as it makes for a fast paced conversational tone. It's depressing as all hell mind you, but wonderfully told.
Did I enjoy reading it? No, no I sure as hell did not. I mean the writing is well done, Steinbeck created one of the best literary pairs ever written and managed to have the most perfect moment of foreshadowing I've ever read (in the form of a dog, so animal lovers beware!). I'm very glad I read it and genuinely liked the book. Enjoyment though? No, no and no.
Do I have anything else to add? Not really. It's a short review, because there's really not much I can say that hasn't already been said. I could address how Curley's wife is annoyingly only called Curley's wife despite being a main character, and the treatment she's given in the book鈥� but I think this is entirely because Steinbeck is showing her only from the point of view of his characters. This is further reinforced by an article I saw in which it discussed how he wrote to Claire Luce, the actress who originated the role on stage saying the following about the character: "She is a nice, kind girl and not a floozy. No man has ever considered her as anything except a girl to try to make... As to her actual sex life 鈥� she has had none except with Curley and there has probably been no consummation there since Curley would not consider her gratification and would probably be suspicious if she had any." So I guess mission accomplished in showing how others viewed her, but also a bit of a failure if that was his real aim for the character (though I do love his jab at Curley there).
Will I read more Steinbeck in the future? Sure! I apparently like sliding down the rain slick precipice of despair, so why the hell not? 4/5 stars.
"Tell me what you told me before...about them rabbits"
"Why yes Tim, that sounds delightful. Got any good ideas?"
"How about a classic?"
"Brilliant idea Tim! One I haven't read?"
"Of course! How about Steinbeck?"
"I don't know鈥� I hear he's a bit depressing."
"Come now, it's only 105 pages! How depressing could it be?"
鈥�
Should I just end the review there? Nah, of course not.
Of Mice and Men is one of those books that pretty much everyone has read. I once saw an article that said it was one of the most commonly read books in High School classes in America. Somehow it is another one of those classics that I managed to never have assigned to me in both High School or College (and I majored in English). Well, I've read it now. My thoughts?
Well, it's a wonderfully well told story, frequently feeling more like a play than a novel, but I mean that as a compliment as it makes for a fast paced conversational tone. It's depressing as all hell mind you, but wonderfully told.
Did I enjoy reading it? No, no I sure as hell did not. I mean the writing is well done, Steinbeck created one of the best literary pairs ever written and managed to have the most perfect moment of foreshadowing I've ever read (in the form of a dog, so animal lovers beware!). I'm very glad I read it and genuinely liked the book. Enjoyment though? No, no and no.
Do I have anything else to add? Not really. It's a short review, because there's really not much I can say that hasn't already been said. I could address how Curley's wife is annoyingly only called Curley's wife despite being a main character, and the treatment she's given in the book鈥� but I think this is entirely because Steinbeck is showing her only from the point of view of his characters. This is further reinforced by an article I saw in which it discussed how he wrote to Claire Luce, the actress who originated the role on stage saying the following about the character: "She is a nice, kind girl and not a floozy. No man has ever considered her as anything except a girl to try to make... As to her actual sex life 鈥� she has had none except with Curley and there has probably been no consummation there since Curley would not consider her gratification and would probably be suspicious if she had any." So I guess mission accomplished in showing how others viewed her, but also a bit of a failure if that was his real aim for the character (though I do love his jab at Curley there).
Will I read more Steinbeck in the future? Sure! I apparently like sliding down the rain slick precipice of despair, so why the hell not? 4/5 stars.
"Tell me what you told me before...about them rabbits"
October 21, 2017
丕蹖賳 丕爻鬲蹖賳 亘讴 亘蹖 乇丨賲! 毓蹖賳 鬲賯丿蹖乇賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴丕卮: 丕賵賱 亘賴 丌丿賲 乇丐蹖丕賴丕蹖 卮蹖乇蹖賳 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴貙 丿乇 丨丕賱蹖 讴賴 丌丿賲 賲蹖丿賵賳賴 賯乇丕乇賴 賴賲賴 趩蹖夭 亘賴 賮丕噩毓賴 禺鬲賲 亘卮賴.
賮讴乇 賳賲蹖 讴乇丿賲 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賴賲賴 賲丿鬲貙 蹖賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕蹖賳 胤賵乇 賲賳賯賱亘賲 讴賳賴貙 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴賴 丌賲丕丿賴 蹖 賴賲趩蹖賳 倬丕蹖丕賳蹖 亘賵丿賲.
賮讴乇 賳賲蹖 讴乇丿賲 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賴賲賴 賲丿鬲貙 蹖賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘鬲賵賳賴 丕蹖賳 胤賵乇 賲賳賯賱亘賲 讴賳賴貙 亘丕 丕蹖賳 讴賴 丌賲丕丿賴 蹖 賴賲趩蹖賳 倬丕蹖丕賳蹖 亘賵丿賲.
June 14, 2016
I decided to up my rating with one star as I still think about this novella more than 2 years after I read it.
I will definitely remember this book because of the ending. It was brutal and heartbreaking.
I will definitely remember this book because of the ending. It was brutal and heartbreaking.
June 27, 2024
袚械薪懈褟褌 薪邪 小褌邪泄薪斜械泻 芯褌泻褉懈褏 蟹邪 褋械斜械 褋懈 褋褉邪胁薪懈褌械谢薪芯 褉邪薪芯 - 斜懈谢 褋褗屑 12-13 谐芯写懈褕械薪, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 褋械 薪邪褌褗泻薪邪褏 薪邪 薪械谐芯胁邪 泻薪懈谐邪 胁 写芯屑邪褕薪邪褌邪 斜懈斜谢懈芯褌械泻邪. 袙 懈蟹写邪薪懈械褌芯 斜褟褏邪 胁泻谢褞褔械薪懈 "校谢懈褑邪 袣芯薪褋械褉胁薪邪" 懈 "袟邪 屑懈褕泻懈褌械 懈 褏芯褉邪褌邪". 袠 写芯 写械薪 写薪械褕械薪 褋懈 芯褋褌邪胁邪 蟹邪谐邪写泻邪 蟹邪 屑械薪, 蟹邪褖芯 谢懈 褌芯褔薪芯 褌械蟹懈 写胁械 写懈邪屑械褌褉邪谢薪芯 锌褉芯褌懈胁芯锌芯谢芯卸薪懈 褌胁芯褉斜懈 褋邪 斜懈谢懈 褋褗斜褉邪薪懈 蟹邪械写薪芯, 胁 械写薪芯 泻薪懈卸薪芯 褌褟谢芯?
袩褗褉胁邪褌邪 写芯褋褌邪 屑械 褉邪蟹胁械褋械谢懈 懈 褋褗芯褌胁械褌薪芯 薪懈泻邪泻 薪械 屑械 锌芯写谐芯褌胁懈 蟹邪 褕芯泻邪 芯褌 胁褌芯褉邪褌邪. 袗 褌邪泻褗胁 懈蟹锌懈褌邪褏 写芯褋褌邪 谐芯谢褟屑 - 蟹邪 锌褗褉胁懈 锌褗褌 褋械 褋斜谢褗褋泻邪褏 褋 薪械锌褉邪胁写懈褌械 懈 卸械褋褌芯泻芯褋褌褌邪 薪邪 卸懈胁芯褌邪, 泻芯泄褌芯 卸懈胁械褟褌 胁褗蟹褉邪褋褌薪懈褌械.
小褗写斜懈褌械 薪邪 袥械薪懈 懈 袛卸芯褉写卸 锌芯谐褗谢薪邪褏邪 褔邪褋褌 芯褌 写械褌褋褌胁芯褌芯 屑懈, 薪芯 屑懈 锌芯屑芯谐薪邪褏邪 写邪 懈蟹褉邪褋薪邪. 袠 锌褉械锌褉芯褔械褌芯褏 "袟邪 屑懈褕泻懈褌械 懈 褏芯褉邪褌邪" 锌芯薪械 锌械褌 锌褗褌懈 胁 褋谢械写胁邪褖懈褌械 薪褟泻芯谢泻芯 谐芯写懈薪懈, 褌褗褉褋械泄泻懈 懈 薪邪屑懈褉邪泄泻懈 胁 薪械褟 芯褌谐芯胁芯褉懈 薪邪 褎褍薪写邪屑械薪褌邪谢薪懈 胁褗锌褉芯褋懈.
袠屑邪 懈 褋褌褉邪褏芯褌械薪 褎懈谢屑 褋 袚邪褉懈 小懈薪懈泄蟹 胁 褉芯谢褟褌邪 薪邪 袛卸芯褉写卸 懈 袛卸芯薪 袦邪谢泻芯胁懈褔 胁 褌邪蟹懈 薪邪 袥械薪懈 - 锌褉芯褋褌芯 锌械褉褎械泻褌薪懈!
袩褗褉胁邪褌邪 写芯褋褌邪 屑械 褉邪蟹胁械褋械谢懈 懈 褋褗芯褌胁械褌薪芯 薪懈泻邪泻 薪械 屑械 锌芯写谐芯褌胁懈 蟹邪 褕芯泻邪 芯褌 胁褌芯褉邪褌邪. 袗 褌邪泻褗胁 懈蟹锌懈褌邪褏 写芯褋褌邪 谐芯谢褟屑 - 蟹邪 锌褗褉胁懈 锌褗褌 褋械 褋斜谢褗褋泻邪褏 褋 薪械锌褉邪胁写懈褌械 懈 卸械褋褌芯泻芯褋褌褌邪 薪邪 卸懈胁芯褌邪, 泻芯泄褌芯 卸懈胁械褟褌 胁褗蟹褉邪褋褌薪懈褌械.
小褗写斜懈褌械 薪邪 袥械薪懈 懈 袛卸芯褉写卸 锌芯谐褗谢薪邪褏邪 褔邪褋褌 芯褌 写械褌褋褌胁芯褌芯 屑懈, 薪芯 屑懈 锌芯屑芯谐薪邪褏邪 写邪 懈蟹褉邪褋薪邪. 袠 锌褉械锌褉芯褔械褌芯褏 "袟邪 屑懈褕泻懈褌械 懈 褏芯褉邪褌邪" 锌芯薪械 锌械褌 锌褗褌懈 胁 褋谢械写胁邪褖懈褌械 薪褟泻芯谢泻芯 谐芯写懈薪懈, 褌褗褉褋械泄泻懈 懈 薪邪屑懈褉邪泄泻懈 胁 薪械褟 芯褌谐芯胁芯褉懈 薪邪 褎褍薪写邪屑械薪褌邪谢薪懈 胁褗锌褉芯褋懈.
袠屑邪 懈 褋褌褉邪褏芯褌械薪 褎懈谢屑 褋 袚邪褉懈 小懈薪懈泄蟹 胁 褉芯谢褟褌邪 薪邪 袛卸芯褉写卸 懈 袛卸芯薪 袦邪谢泻芯胁懈褔 胁 褌邪蟹懈 薪邪 袥械薪懈 - 锌褉芯褋褌芯 锌械褉褎械泻褌薪懈!
October 19, 2023
鈥漌e are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.鈥�
鈥擩ohn Steinbeck
Five mind-blown stars!
When I started Of Mice and Men, I wasn鈥檛 sure I鈥檇 chosen the right read. The dialogue really was not what I expected and Steinbeck鈥檚 straightforward prose cut straight to the core of the matter. However, I stuck with it and the reward blew my mind!
Set in 1930s California, the story follows two destitute men as they roam, taking work where it could be found. George and Lennie had grown up together, and when Lennie鈥檚 Aunt and caretaker died, George bore the responsibility of watching over him, a man fully grown and built like a bear, but with the innocent mind of a child. Lennie, due to his ineptness, unintentionally creates situations that lead to trouble, and it was up to George to keep them both from being lynched on many occasions. George, though often frustrated with Lennie, dearly loved his friend. All they had was each other and a fanciful dream of owning their own farm. Life on the road can be desperately lonely, and to have such a good companion was a precious commodity. I was filled with respect for George who did everything in his power to take care of his dear friend.
This is not an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. While it is graced with beautiful friendships and the milk of human kindness, the book also explores the darkest aspects of humanity, and the ugly racism in the book is really hard to stomach. Steinbeck writes with a raw realism that is admirable, but his honest depiction brings the cruelty that we all know exists in the world.
The story came together with such a crescendo that my heart nearly burst from my chest. I won鈥檛 spoil this for anyone who hasn鈥檛 read it, but the tale touched me so profoundly that I was left staring at the last page for ages before I could bring myself to close it.
鈥擩ohn Steinbeck
Five mind-blown stars!
When I started Of Mice and Men, I wasn鈥檛 sure I鈥檇 chosen the right read. The dialogue really was not what I expected and Steinbeck鈥檚 straightforward prose cut straight to the core of the matter. However, I stuck with it and the reward blew my mind!
Set in 1930s California, the story follows two destitute men as they roam, taking work where it could be found. George and Lennie had grown up together, and when Lennie鈥檚 Aunt and caretaker died, George bore the responsibility of watching over him, a man fully grown and built like a bear, but with the innocent mind of a child. Lennie, due to his ineptness, unintentionally creates situations that lead to trouble, and it was up to George to keep them both from being lynched on many occasions. George, though often frustrated with Lennie, dearly loved his friend. All they had was each other and a fanciful dream of owning their own farm. Life on the road can be desperately lonely, and to have such a good companion was a precious commodity. I was filled with respect for George who did everything in his power to take care of his dear friend.
This is not an easy read by any stretch of the imagination. While it is graced with beautiful friendships and the milk of human kindness, the book also explores the darkest aspects of humanity, and the ugly racism in the book is really hard to stomach. Steinbeck writes with a raw realism that is admirable, but his honest depiction brings the cruelty that we all know exists in the world.
The story came together with such a crescendo that my heart nearly burst from my chest. I won鈥檛 spoil this for anyone who hasn鈥檛 read it, but the tale touched me so profoundly that I was left staring at the last page for ages before I could bring myself to close it.
June 2, 2019
毓夭蹖夭 賳爻蹖賳: 丌丿賲鈥屬囏� 亘賴 賲乇賵乇 夭賲丕賳 丿乇賵睾鈥屬囏й� 禺賵丿卮丕賳 乇丕 亘丕賵乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀�
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丕诏賴 丕蹖賳 丕賲蹖丿 賱毓賳鬲蹖 鬲賵 賵噩賵丿賲賵賳 賳亘賵丿 丕賱丕賳 卮丕蹖丿...
賴賲賴鈥屬呝堎� 賲蹖鈥屫堎嗃屬� 毓丕賯亘鬲 爻诏 丿賵 夭丿賳 亘賴 讴噩丕 賲蹖乇爻賴 賵賱蹖 亘丕夭 賴乇賵夭 卮乇賵毓 賲蹖讴賳蹖賲 亘賴 爻诏 丿賵 夭丿賳. 趩賵賳 蹖賴 丕賲蹖丿 賱毓賳鬲蹖 賴爻鬲 讴賴 賲蹖诏賴 蹖讴 乇賵夭 禺賵亘 賲蹖丕丿 賵 賲丕 禺賵丿賲賵賳 乇賵 亘賳丿 讴乇丿蹖賲 亘賴 丕蹖賳 乇賵夭 禺賵亘 讴賴 賴乇诏夭 賴賲 賳賲蹖丕丿.
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丕诏賴 丕蹖賳 丕賲蹖丿 賱毓賳鬲蹖 鬲賵 賵噩賵丿賲賵賳 賳亘賵丿 丕賱丕賳 卮丕蹖丿...
February 11, 2008
It's the way Steinbeck describes things that gets me.
"Crooks, the negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. On one side of the little room there was a square four-paned window, and on the other, a narrow plank door leading into the barn. Crooks' bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung. On the wall by the window there were pegs on which hung broken harness in process of being mended; strips of new leather; and under the window itself a little bench for leather-working tools, curved knives and needles and balls of linen thread, and a small hand riveter. On pegs were also pieces of harness, a split collar with the horsehair stuffing sticking out, a broken hame, and a trace chain with its leather covering split. Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses. There were cans of saddle soap and a drippy can of tar with its paint brush sticking over the edge. And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, ad being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back."
None of this is relevant to the story, and yet a middle chapter opens up with this vivid scene. Steinbeck succeeds because the characters he paints in your head are exact. The first time I saw the movie that was made out of this story, it was just as I had envisioned it. Though the story great itself, the reason I will come back to this book is for the little things, the very things that have made me love Steinbeck so much.
I first read Of Mice And Men my sophomore year of high school, when it was a required reading in Mrs. Beeler's class. I recall disliking almost all required school readings up to this point (though admittedly I had skipped out on the summer reading project of "The Grapes Of Wrath"). When this book was assigned, I knew it was different. I blew through it, reading it in a day or two, even though I wasn't supposed to. For once there was a school book that I enjoyed. And all the credit in the world to my teacher, who chose other good books the rest of the year. So it's been 6-7 years since I've read this, and now, reading it for the second time, it's just as memorable as I remember. The story sticks with you, the imagery sticks. The characters are among Steinbeck's best, painted in such a crystal clear vision of the time.
It's a near perfect short story, and one that I will surely revisit throughout my life.
"Crooks, the negro stable buck, had his bunk in the harness room; a little shed that leaned off the wall of the barn. On one side of the little room there was a square four-paned window, and on the other, a narrow plank door leading into the barn. Crooks' bunk was a long box filled with straw, on which his blankets were flung. On the wall by the window there were pegs on which hung broken harness in process of being mended; strips of new leather; and under the window itself a little bench for leather-working tools, curved knives and needles and balls of linen thread, and a small hand riveter. On pegs were also pieces of harness, a split collar with the horsehair stuffing sticking out, a broken hame, and a trace chain with its leather covering split. Crooks had his apple box over his bunk, and in it a range of medicine bottles, both for himself and for the horses. There were cans of saddle soap and a drippy can of tar with its paint brush sticking over the edge. And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone, Crooks could leave his things about, ad being a stable buck and a cripple, he was more permanent than the other men, and he had accumulated more possessions than he could carry on his back."
None of this is relevant to the story, and yet a middle chapter opens up with this vivid scene. Steinbeck succeeds because the characters he paints in your head are exact. The first time I saw the movie that was made out of this story, it was just as I had envisioned it. Though the story great itself, the reason I will come back to this book is for the little things, the very things that have made me love Steinbeck so much.
I first read Of Mice And Men my sophomore year of high school, when it was a required reading in Mrs. Beeler's class. I recall disliking almost all required school readings up to this point (though admittedly I had skipped out on the summer reading project of "The Grapes Of Wrath"). When this book was assigned, I knew it was different. I blew through it, reading it in a day or two, even though I wasn't supposed to. For once there was a school book that I enjoyed. And all the credit in the world to my teacher, who chose other good books the rest of the year. So it's been 6-7 years since I've read this, and now, reading it for the second time, it's just as memorable as I remember. The story sticks with you, the imagery sticks. The characters are among Steinbeck's best, painted in such a crystal clear vision of the time.
It's a near perfect short story, and one that I will surely revisit throughout my life.
June 30, 2020
I know that this is a reread for me, but I never had Of Mice and Men marked as read in 欧宝娱乐. I am pretty sure it was required reading in high school and I know I enjoyed it the first time around. And, as luck would have it, I enjoyed it this time as well.
I can sum it up by saying that Steinbeck can write (and that is an understatement)! I have loved every book I have read by him. The descriptions are vivid, the characters are richly developed, and stories are powerful. Of Mice and Men is no exception. In fact, if you have been wanting to try Steinbeck but find the size of Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden daunting, this is a great place to start.
Even if you have never read this book, you have probably seen many tributes/homages to its main characters George and Lenny; cartoons, movies, tv shows, etc. George is the gruff and scrappy brains of the operation while Lenny is a mentally challenged giant who does not know or understand his own strength. Their relationship is an odd one but kind of beautiful. Without it, this story would just not be the same.
Also, this book has one of the most
This is a classic that I feel everyone should read. And, I feel like Steinbeck is an author that everyone should read at least once. The writing is just too amazing to miss out on and it is so awesome how consistently amazing Steinbeck was.
I can sum it up by saying that Steinbeck can write (and that is an understatement)! I have loved every book I have read by him. The descriptions are vivid, the characters are richly developed, and stories are powerful. Of Mice and Men is no exception. In fact, if you have been wanting to try Steinbeck but find the size of Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden daunting, this is a great place to start.
Even if you have never read this book, you have probably seen many tributes/homages to its main characters George and Lenny; cartoons, movies, tv shows, etc. George is the gruff and scrappy brains of the operation while Lenny is a mentally challenged giant who does not know or understand his own strength. Their relationship is an odd one but kind of beautiful. Without it, this story would just not be the same.
Also, this book has one of the most
This is a classic that I feel everyone should read. And, I feel like Steinbeck is an author that everyone should read at least once. The writing is just too amazing to miss out on and it is so awesome how consistently amazing Steinbeck was.
June 12, 2020
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倬蹖賳賵卮鬲: 賵丕囟丨賴 讴賴 賴賲蹖卮賴 禺賵丕賳丿賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘賴 夭亘丕賳 丕氐賱蹖卮 亘賴鬲乇 丕夭 鬲乇噩賲賴 爻鬲. 賵賱蹖 丿乇 賲賵乇丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 賮讴乇 賲蹖 讴賳賲 賴蹖趩 鬲乇噩賲賴 丕蹖 "賳賲蹖 鬲賵賳賴" 丨賯 賲胤賱亘 乇賵 丕丿丕 讴賳賴
98.11.21
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98.11.21
March 2, 2022
If you want to feel real sad, absorb Steinbeck's pitch perfect prose right to your dome. A worthwhile bummer of a great book.
When I was in college taking teaching courses I graded a lot of homework about this book. It was pretty magical, interacting with a novel I had loved when I read it in school and seeing it again through the opinions of young students. I鈥檝e always found I like a novel more when I can dig into it and being able to be on the teaching side really opened it up further, especially because I was reading key passages over and over again. So this book holds a really special place in my heart.
When I was in college taking teaching courses I graded a lot of homework about this book. It was pretty magical, interacting with a novel I had loved when I read it in school and seeing it again through the opinions of young students. I鈥檝e always found I like a novel more when I can dig into it and being able to be on the teaching side really opened it up further, especially because I was reading key passages over and over again. So this book holds a really special place in my heart.
July 20, 2019
A book I'd read an awfully long time ago, when pocket calculators were still the latest thing.
Such an iconic staple of American literature, wherein George and Lennie, migrant labourers in the Cali dustbowl, form an unlikely bond in a tale of brutality and tenderness.
Typical of Steinbeck, his 'no-fucking-about' narrative fast-tracks his examination of human morality, culminating in a story that has since been immortalised on film and stage.
Steinbeck strived for gritty realism and wrote about a time and a place, with all of its triumphs and evils. Hidden messages shadow the narrative, chiefly one of morality. He depicted an America that existed, not the one that he would have liked.
Such an iconic staple of American literature, wherein George and Lennie, migrant labourers in the Cali dustbowl, form an unlikely bond in a tale of brutality and tenderness.
Typical of Steinbeck, his 'no-fucking-about' narrative fast-tracks his examination of human morality, culminating in a story that has since been immortalised on film and stage.
Steinbeck strived for gritty realism and wrote about a time and a place, with all of its triumphs and evils. Hidden messages shadow the narrative, chiefly one of morality. He depicted an America that existed, not the one that he would have liked.
July 16, 2015
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June 27, 2021
What more can I possibly add to a discussion of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men without drawing a high school English teacher's salary? Considering I'm not drawing bored glances from teenagers, I doubt that a check from LAUSD will appear in my mailbox anytime soon.
-- Published in 1937, this is the work that the 欧宝娱乐 algorithms seem to have agreed is the author's most renowned. For Stephen King, it's The Shining, for Elmore Leonard it's Get Shorty and for John Steinbeck it's Of Mice and Men.
-- This is a novella, approximate length 34,720 words. I read it in under forty-eight hours.
-- The story revolves around two ranch hands traveling the highways and ranches of California, looking out for each other and trying to build enough of a stake to put down on their own piece of land.
Both were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders. The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.
-- George Milton is the small man, the thinker. Lennie Small is the child in a hulk's body. Walking ten miles to a barley ranch south of Soledad after a bus driver with a grudge drops them off on the highway far short of their destination, Lennie is fascinated by petting mice or rabbits or anything with a nice texture. Lennie has never laid a hand on George, enamored by the tales his traveling partner tells of the land they'll settle someday. When the men finally arrive for work, George does the talking.
"He ain't no cuckoo," said George. "He's dumb as hell, but he ain't crazy. An' I ain't so bright neither, or I wouldn't be buckin' barley for my fifty and found. If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I'd have my own little place, an' I'd be bringin' in my own crops, 'stead of doin' all the work and not getting what comes up outta the ground." George fell silent. He wanted to talk. Slim neither encouraged nor discouraged him. He just sat back quiet and receptive.
-- One of the reasons John Steinbeck is my favorite author is that when he pens description, I don't want it to end, and when he switches to dialogue, I don't want his characters to stop talking either. Stephen King's dialogue can be tin, while Elmore Leonard's attentiveness when it comes to prose is short spanned to say the least, but Steinbeck's descriptions and dialogue achieve a purity that captivates me. It's like the difference between drinking water from a garden hose that's been drying in the sun with who knows what crawling inside it and one day, someone hands you a bottle of Perrier.
-- While most authors have been around people, with Steinbeck, I'm always left with the undeniable impression he watched and achieved a wisdom about people. Then he works that knowledge into his books and passes it along to the reader. I find myself able to relate to Steinbeck more than I can the majority of contemporary authors, who often seem to have never been around humans who dreamed, drank, lusted, got into fights or trouble with the law, fell out with family members or worried about where their next meal might come from.
Crooks said gently, "Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he's goin' to come back. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody--to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long as he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."
-- For those joining late, I'm no English teacher, but if I encountered someone who was adamant that they didn't read fiction (I'm thinking men here) and I wanted to try to get them to change their attitude, Of Mice and Men would be the novel I'd hand them. It's short, it's about men and work and figuring out a better future and loyalty and how things don't always work out the way you dream they will. Yet the writing takes me away to another place. I couldn't last a day bucking barley or bucking a sack of anything, but as Steinbeck knows well, we all yearn to be on the open road, traveling, camping out on a river and maybe eating beans just because we felt like it.
-- Lastly, Of Mice and Men has been adapted to film twice: a 1939 production starring Burgess Meredith as George and Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie and a 1992 film with Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie. Reading the novel, I heard Sinise's voice as George. As Lennie, I heard the Abominable Snowman from the 1949 Looney Toons short directed by Chuck Jones, The Abominable Snow Rabbit. References to Steinbeck's novel have been dropped by a ton of cartoon series, perhaps as much a tribute to Jones as to Steinbeck, but the homage that stands out for me are the characters of Pinky and the Brain on Animaniacs.
-- Published in 1937, this is the work that the 欧宝娱乐 algorithms seem to have agreed is the author's most renowned. For Stephen King, it's The Shining, for Elmore Leonard it's Get Shorty and for John Steinbeck it's Of Mice and Men.
-- This is a novella, approximate length 34,720 words. I read it in under forty-eight hours.
-- The story revolves around two ranch hands traveling the highways and ranches of California, looking out for each other and trying to build enough of a stake to put down on their own piece of land.
Both were dressed in denim trousers and in denim coats with brass buttons. Both wore black, shapeless hats and both carried tight blanket rolls slung over their shoulders. The first man was small and quick, dark of face, with restless eyes and sharp, strong features. Every part of him was defined: small, strong hands, slender arms, a thin and bony nose. Behind him walked his opposite, a huge man, shapeless of face, with large, pale eyes, with wide, sloping shoulders; and he walked heavily, dragging his feet a little, the way a bear drags his paws. His arms did not swing at his sides, but hung loosely.
-- George Milton is the small man, the thinker. Lennie Small is the child in a hulk's body. Walking ten miles to a barley ranch south of Soledad after a bus driver with a grudge drops them off on the highway far short of their destination, Lennie is fascinated by petting mice or rabbits or anything with a nice texture. Lennie has never laid a hand on George, enamored by the tales his traveling partner tells of the land they'll settle someday. When the men finally arrive for work, George does the talking.
"He ain't no cuckoo," said George. "He's dumb as hell, but he ain't crazy. An' I ain't so bright neither, or I wouldn't be buckin' barley for my fifty and found. If I was bright, if I was even a little bit smart, I'd have my own little place, an' I'd be bringin' in my own crops, 'stead of doin' all the work and not getting what comes up outta the ground." George fell silent. He wanted to talk. Slim neither encouraged nor discouraged him. He just sat back quiet and receptive.
-- One of the reasons John Steinbeck is my favorite author is that when he pens description, I don't want it to end, and when he switches to dialogue, I don't want his characters to stop talking either. Stephen King's dialogue can be tin, while Elmore Leonard's attentiveness when it comes to prose is short spanned to say the least, but Steinbeck's descriptions and dialogue achieve a purity that captivates me. It's like the difference between drinking water from a garden hose that's been drying in the sun with who knows what crawling inside it and one day, someone hands you a bottle of Perrier.
-- While most authors have been around people, with Steinbeck, I'm always left with the undeniable impression he watched and achieved a wisdom about people. Then he works that knowledge into his books and passes it along to the reader. I find myself able to relate to Steinbeck more than I can the majority of contemporary authors, who often seem to have never been around humans who dreamed, drank, lusted, got into fights or trouble with the law, fell out with family members or worried about where their next meal might come from.
Crooks said gently, "Maybe you can see now. You got George. You know he's goin' to come back. S'pose you didn't have nobody. S'pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy 'cause you was black. How'd you like that? S'pose you had to sit out here an' read books. Sure you could play horseshoes till it got dark, but then you got to read books. Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody--to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long as he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick."
-- For those joining late, I'm no English teacher, but if I encountered someone who was adamant that they didn't read fiction (I'm thinking men here) and I wanted to try to get them to change their attitude, Of Mice and Men would be the novel I'd hand them. It's short, it's about men and work and figuring out a better future and loyalty and how things don't always work out the way you dream they will. Yet the writing takes me away to another place. I couldn't last a day bucking barley or bucking a sack of anything, but as Steinbeck knows well, we all yearn to be on the open road, traveling, camping out on a river and maybe eating beans just because we felt like it.
-- Lastly, Of Mice and Men has been adapted to film twice: a 1939 production starring Burgess Meredith as George and Lon Chaney Jr. as Lennie and a 1992 film with Gary Sinise as George and John Malkovich as Lennie. Reading the novel, I heard Sinise's voice as George. As Lennie, I heard the Abominable Snowman from the 1949 Looney Toons short directed by Chuck Jones, The Abominable Snow Rabbit. References to Steinbeck's novel have been dropped by a ton of cartoon series, perhaps as much a tribute to Jones as to Steinbeck, but the homage that stands out for me are the characters of Pinky and the Brain on Animaniacs.
February 6, 2022
鈥淚n every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. try to understand men, if you understand each other, you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love鈥�
A timeless work of fiction that embraces universal themes of racism, poverty, mental disorder, and friendship that brings with it loyalty and misguided loyalty as Steinbeck delivers yet another powerful story, this time of two men struggling to find work, during the Great Depression in the US. One a gentle giant who 鈥榢ills with kindness鈥� and the other, George, who takes control of his friend who possesses the mental age of a child, in a bid to find work alongside a migrant workforce who are also in need, flawed and with their own back stories.
The two central characters, George and Lennie, have arrived at a farm in search of work having fled from their previous job because of some minor transgression by Lennie. Conscious of his friend鈥檚 mental competence, George becomes Lennie鈥檚 voice and with very tightly controlled conversations with others, he encourages his friend to say nothing to anyone they meet. The promise for this compliance is work and the pledge that they will both find a place where rabbits run free!!!.
Words are offered to protect Lennie, 鈥淚f you jus鈥� happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an鈥� hide in the brush鈥� 鈥� and yet Lennie does get into trouble again as the story takes on a sad twist that will test friendship and expose all the inequalities of a world portrayed by Steinbeck.
Powerful in its message but simple in its storytelling, evocative in its themes and sentimental in its portrayal of all that is wrong at that time in history as people struggled to find work and their next meal. The characterisation is intriguing and the small group of people central to the story is indictive of a society in need, with prejudices, ambitions, with an underlying mistrust of people around them.
Simple and powerful and one of those books everyone should read in their lifetime.
A timeless work of fiction that embraces universal themes of racism, poverty, mental disorder, and friendship that brings with it loyalty and misguided loyalty as Steinbeck delivers yet another powerful story, this time of two men struggling to find work, during the Great Depression in the US. One a gentle giant who 鈥榢ills with kindness鈥� and the other, George, who takes control of his friend who possesses the mental age of a child, in a bid to find work alongside a migrant workforce who are also in need, flawed and with their own back stories.
The two central characters, George and Lennie, have arrived at a farm in search of work having fled from their previous job because of some minor transgression by Lennie. Conscious of his friend鈥檚 mental competence, George becomes Lennie鈥檚 voice and with very tightly controlled conversations with others, he encourages his friend to say nothing to anyone they meet. The promise for this compliance is work and the pledge that they will both find a place where rabbits run free!!!.
Words are offered to protect Lennie, 鈥淚f you jus鈥� happen to get in trouble like you always done before, I want you to come right here an鈥� hide in the brush鈥� 鈥� and yet Lennie does get into trouble again as the story takes on a sad twist that will test friendship and expose all the inequalities of a world portrayed by Steinbeck.
Powerful in its message but simple in its storytelling, evocative in its themes and sentimental in its portrayal of all that is wrong at that time in history as people struggled to find work and their next meal. The characterisation is intriguing and the small group of people central to the story is indictive of a society in need, with prejudices, ambitions, with an underlying mistrust of people around them.
Simple and powerful and one of those books everyone should read in their lifetime.
September 16, 2019
So it starts as you lay there awake, in the quiet hours of night, lulling your head to be hushed of those deafening thoughts, faces, voices, you kept on getting day long, as you con your head into forged drowsiness, and it starts dawning on you, the coiled snake sitting in the corner of your mind tilts its head, clogs every nerve in his coil, deep-seated thought of being all alone in this universe of biological process over process strikes you to the core, universal loneliness houses your whole being, Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are, we can never talk the next soul of our inner happenings, the loneliness of this kind eats our being and we device heavens, If not in this life, but in the life to come, we don鈥檛 want to be this alone, but there are some stories who teach us the inevitability of it, no matter how far we travel in pursue of a dream land, we will always be alone!
鈥淛ust like heaven. Ever鈥檅ody wants a little piece of lan鈥�. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It鈥檚 just in their head. They鈥檙e all the time talkin鈥� about it, but it鈥檚 jus鈥� in their head.鈥�
What if just in our head it all is, what if we are always been delusional by definition, of people we thought we loved or were loved, of sickness we thought were cured, of people we thought we鈥檇 known, of souls we thought had touched, of love we thought had lived, of memories we thought had faded, of faces we thought had gone, or weren鈥檛 there at the first place. This is the story of unloved and alone, of George Milton and Lennie Small, the story of two antithetic coming together in bond only death dared disrupt. The story of the dream which dwelt all just in head and inspired them to work from place to place in the wake of depression years in America.
Steinbeck鈥檚 characters are suspiciously caricaturesque,as if placed there just for that purpose, with no backdrop stories of their own, no life before the opening scene, a giant-structured low at wits character to be paired with equally short-statured but quick-wit George who protects Lennie from the harms of his world, they dreamt of rabbits and a farm where there won鈥檛 be having any masters, a land of their own, in the times of impossibilities and hunger extreme, universality of their dream takes the reader in awe of ingeniousness of the writer, nihilistic viewpoint of life being a journey from zero to zero is too much loud in undertones of his prose, the dream of a land of their own was a driving force to keep their heads up the consuming loneliness which seems to be ever prevalent in the air that all characters breathe in.
鈥淭here is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts鈥� said Camus in his last manuscript, this emptiness echoed through this sad tale of shocking ending, the ending we were given the hints of from the very start, the ending we kept denying to accept till the very end...
鈥淛ust like heaven. Ever鈥檅ody wants a little piece of lan鈥�. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It鈥檚 just in their head. They鈥檙e all the time talkin鈥� about it, but it鈥檚 jus鈥� in their head.鈥�
What if just in our head it all is, what if we are always been delusional by definition, of people we thought we loved or were loved, of sickness we thought were cured, of people we thought we鈥檇 known, of souls we thought had touched, of love we thought had lived, of memories we thought had faded, of faces we thought had gone, or weren鈥檛 there at the first place. This is the story of unloved and alone, of George Milton and Lennie Small, the story of two antithetic coming together in bond only death dared disrupt. The story of the dream which dwelt all just in head and inspired them to work from place to place in the wake of depression years in America.
Steinbeck鈥檚 characters are suspiciously caricaturesque,as if placed there just for that purpose, with no backdrop stories of their own, no life before the opening scene, a giant-structured low at wits character to be paired with equally short-statured but quick-wit George who protects Lennie from the harms of his world, they dreamt of rabbits and a farm where there won鈥檛 be having any masters, a land of their own, in the times of impossibilities and hunger extreme, universality of their dream takes the reader in awe of ingeniousness of the writer, nihilistic viewpoint of life being a journey from zero to zero is too much loud in undertones of his prose, the dream of a land of their own was a driving force to keep their heads up the consuming loneliness which seems to be ever prevalent in the air that all characters breathe in.
鈥淭here is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts鈥� said Camus in his last manuscript, this emptiness echoed through this sad tale of shocking ending, the ending we were given the hints of from the very start, the ending we kept denying to accept till the very end...
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