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Read Grapes of Wrath over the weekend, 180 book
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:20 AM Author: irate cordovan set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797054) |
Date: April 6th, 2026 8:28 AM Author: startling chest-beating black woman Steinbeck had an agenda. So did Dorothea Lange. Read that shit in High School and only later realized that these two were communist agitators. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797057) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:28 AM Author: irradiated henna stage Kill all lawyers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797058) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:29 AM Author: startling chest-beating black woman What on earth does the allegory of a box turtle on a highway have to do with the human condition? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797062) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:31 AM Author: irradiated henna stage Box turtle and non lawyer humans agree: kill all lawyers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797063) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:45 AM Author: irate cordovan set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797090) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:06 AM Author: appetizing nubile windowlicker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797419) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:31 AM Author: Yellow theater juggernaut You must read fast as hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797064) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:46 AM Author: irate cordovan set I do, but I have great retention/comprehension
I actually read three books over the last four days (including Grapes). |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:09 AM Author: irradiated henna stage Sounds 180 I can't remember what I read three pages ago (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797170) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:14 AM Author: irate cordovan set It's great
Although I usually don't read that much but I was traveling for Easter so I had a lot of airport/airplane time to just crank through books
Also I read short stories way more than I read novels (the other two books were short story collections) so even if the books end up around similar length it's 'easier' somehow to get through a book in one sitting if it's actually not just one long story |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:24 AM Author: Yellow theater juggernaut It takes me forever to work through a book I think I’m retarded or something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797218) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: irradiated henna stage Same I could read when I was like 12 then I started thinking about reading and became self aware of the process. I've been retarded and unable to "remember" "words" ever since (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49799023) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:04 AM Author: irate cordovan set I fell out of the habit of reading for pleasure for a while and had to drag myself back into it
I don't read enough non-fiction though |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:33 AM Author: peach seedy piazza main people Steinbeck was a commie faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797066) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 8:46 AM Author: irate cordovan set yeah but it's a good book (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797092) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:05 AM Author: Nighttime Candlestick Maker East of Eden is great. Steinbeck is a great author, communist sympathies non-withstanding. Similar to Hemingway. Both yuge faggots! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797154) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:12 AM Author: irate cordovan set cr
i may read east of eden next; i saw the movie and loved it
it is a super commie book but i still liked it; it may be propaganda but it's good propaganda |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:24 AM Author: Yellow theater juggernaut Have you read In Dubious Battle? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797220) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:30 AM Author: irate cordovan set No, humiliatingly for me this is the first Steinbeck I’ve actually read
Is In Dubious Battle cr? |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:29 AM Author: Yellow theater juggernaut It's about straight up card-carrying commies agitating farm laborers. I was working thru a lot of Steinbeck's shorter novels last year (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797466) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:03 AM Author: irate cordovan set is it good or bad? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800022) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:35 AM Author: dead private investor East of Eden is by far the best Steinbeck and that's saying something. It's probably a top 10 20th century American novel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797248) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 10:00 AM Author: startling chest-beating black woman Where would you slot Light in August? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797317) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:38 AM Author: Nighttime Candlestick Maker Faulkner sucks all his books are complete bore-fests (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797484) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:00 AM Author: bearded preventive strike institution shut the fuck up (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800013) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 10:18 AM Author: irate cordovan set I saw the old James Dean movie version years ago and thought it was very powerful so I imagine the book's even better
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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:07 AM Author: appetizing nubile windowlicker i read that over two days in belize while sick with food poisoning from a conch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797420) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:40 AM Author: Yellow theater juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49797492) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:06 AM Author: Citrine Native titca
East of Eden is a classic and it's odd to me that it's usually not mentioned as Steinbeck's top work.
cannery row is pretty good too, it's less didactic than Grapes of Wrath or Mice & Men; although (maybe as a result) it suffers somewhat from not really having a "point".
I thought the pearl sucked.
Log from the Sea of cortez *really* sucked. |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:09 AM Author: irate cordovan set I've never heard anyone with anything good to say about The Pearl
Grapes of Wrath is didactic as hell but Steinbeck's a strong enough writer that it's still good (kind of like Dickens); the bit where he talks about all the human effort that goes into creating modern agriculture and bumper crops that then have to be destroyed because they aren't profitable is a more eloquent argument for Marxist economic thought than any number of DSA freaks |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:15 AM Author: Citrine Native most good arguments for marxist economic thought exist entirely within fiction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800059) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:16 AM Author: irate cordovan set titcr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800064) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:36 AM Author: Misunderstood Theatre Clown I haven't read The Perl since I was really young but the concept seems underwhelming even for a short novel/novella whatever that thing is. Grapes of Wrath is good, but the didactic machinery is too central. The intercalary chapters especially its like the book is announcing itself that its about suffering, even though they are great set-pieces. East of Eden is the best novel of his and its not even close imo. It can be a bit digressive and extra at times but it somehow still holds together. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800174) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:39 AM Author: irate cordovan set The set piece chapters are great imo but I see what you’re saying
The used car lot and roadside diner bits are some of my favorites (also the xo box turtle and the Marxist “capitalism hamstrings its own productive capacity” chapter) |
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Date: April 6th, 2026 9:27 PM Author: irate cordovan set Watching the movie now it’s not bad at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49799024) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:58 AM Author: Citrine Native the movie came out within a year of the book being published, it's insane how fast things worked back then. they just did things (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800008) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:59 AM Author: irate cordovan set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800011) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:14 AM Author: Boyish azn house Fucking your wife in a cramped wagon surrounded by family, both alive and dead. This is the life libs want for you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800055) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:21 AM Author: Citrine Native i remember reading this book at 13 or 14 and being both shocked & enthralled at the scene describing a preacher giving his wife a "fearful pounding" - I think that's an actual quote - after delivering a particularly rousing sermon. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800081) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:21 AM Author: Citrine Native we didn't have internet pornography back then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800082) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:37 AM Author: irate cordovan set Yeah some of that struck me too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800179) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:50 AM Author: Misunderstood Theatre Clown Yeah that's Jim Casy. His entire arc is about the inseparability of spiritual ecstasy and carnal energy. His whole "maybe the Holy Spirit is just people, all of us together" speech is essentially him working out a pantheist framework that dissolves the sacred/profane distinction that made him feel guilty. The "fearful pounding" bit is line is quietly hilarious the way its delivered. King James biblical cadence applied to pussy pounding. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800221) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: irate cordovan set Casy did get on my nerves; I get what his character is supposed to be and mean but it felt a bit on the nose (moreso than the communist stuff) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800236) |
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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:57 AM Author: Misunderstood Theatre Clown Casy pounding his wife after the sermon is more theologically complex than half the explicit argument in the book though IMHO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854084&forum_id=2...id.#49800238) |