And as a teenager, I was shocked, shocked! by the ending. A
great book that I'd reread if there weren't so many other
books I haven't yet read once. Joy
Michael Robison wrote:
> Finished The Grapes of Wrath yesterday. I've wanted
to
> read it for years. For my tastes, it could have
been
> shortened a hundred pages or more without
detracting
> from the story. I thought the generic chapters
could
> have been left out altogether. The implication
seemed
> to be that the story itself was incapable of
carrying
> the meaning, which was not true. They reminded me
of
> the whaling essays that Melville sandwiched into
Moby
> Dick.
>
> It was still a spectacular story.
Wonderful
> characters. No doubt in my mind as to the
Marxist
> intent. No ambiguity there. Much better done than
the
> didactic rhetoric in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle,
and
> at least as good as Dos Passos's first in his
trilogy.
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