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East of Eden
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bookshelves: literary-musts, notable-books-from-others, 2021-pop-sugar-reading-challenge, 1950-s-fiction
Apr 25, 2021
bookshelves: literary-musts, notable-books-from-others, 2021-pop-sugar-reading-challenge, 1950-s-fiction
It’s with such a heavy heart I finish.
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Reading Progress
February 27, 2014
– Shelved as:
to-read
February 27, 2014
– Shelved
March 12, 2018
– Shelved as:
literary-musts
October 20, 2019
– Shelved as:
notable-books-from-others
December 2, 2020
– Shelved as:
2021-pop-sugar-reading-challenge
March 12, 2021
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Started Reading
March 26, 2021
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14.81%
"My March madness is being thwarted by some slowwwwwww EOE reading."
page
89
March 27, 2021
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26.29%
"When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking into eliminate all other thinking. In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, or politics, and even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger."
page
158
April 18, 2021
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39.77%
"You have surprised me my friend, Mr. Steinbeck. The plot thickens as they say. I’m wondering if you would find my surprise at this twist of events surprising to you as the writer.
“She was mistress of a technique which is the basis of good wrestling � that of letting your opponent do the heavy work toward his own defeat, or of guiding his strength toward his weaknesses. �"
page
239
“She was mistress of a technique which is the basis of good wrestling � that of letting your opponent do the heavy work toward his own defeat, or of guiding his strength toward his weaknesses. �"
April 24, 2021
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68.39%
"“Humans are caught in their lives in their thoughts in their hungers and ambitions in their avarice and cruelty and in their kindness and generosity two and a net of good and evil. Virtue and vice were war and wolf of our first consciousness, and they will be the fabric of our last, and this despite any changes we may impose on field and river and mountain, on economy and manners. There is no other story.�"
page
411
April 25, 2021
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Finished Reading
April 24, 2022
– Shelved as:
1950-s-fiction
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May 29, 2021 08:37AM
The silence that greets the turning of the last page of this one is deafening!
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