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🕑 Added 2023-10-04 02:53:01 +0000 UTC this john steinbeck collection had 6 books in it so this is gonna be a lot of words. 3 were rereads for me 3 were new. tortilla flat no one appreciates and accepts the nuance and duality of man like steinbeck. not a day goes by that i don’t think of this man. i am always ranting about how everyone wants to be seen as a good guy, but doesn’t want to actually be good. they justify their bad actions in any way to avoid admitting they did something wrong. this one perfectly encapsulates that. the scene with the candle was written so masterfully if i didn’t know better, i would never believe it’s one of his earlier works. words were invented for steinbeck. 10/10 the red pony so fuckin sad man, especially the chapter about the grandpa. i love when he talks about how the spirit of westering filled them and they would have went even further west if there was any further to go, but the ocean stopped them, and now the coast is filled with men angrily staring at the ocean that stopped them. so sad to be old and to know you have fulfilled your life’s purpose, and now you’re just waiting around to croak. the pony stuff is sad too, of course. i’m kinda going backwards with this review, but i love the quote “they knew instinctively that a man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on the foot. they knew that jody had been miraculously, lifted out of equality with them, and had been placed over them” i first saw that quoted in jo jo meyers’ the giver of stars and then got to fall in love with it all over again reading it where it came from. 8.5/10 of mice and men this was my third time reading this, and it never gets easier. i was crying by the second page and hardly ever stopped. the two shootings foil each other so incredibly, right down to the placement of the bullet. i hope they never stop teaching this one in schools, even if it’s mostly just so english teachers get to scratch their itch of wanting to say the n word. 10/10 one of the best books ever written. the moon is down i usually never reread the same book twice in one year, but this one was next in this collection i was reading, and i didn’t want to skip over it. i’ll say something different about it this time, though. when this first came out a lot of people were mad, because they thought steinbeck was a nazi sympathizer. those people are dumb as rocks. steinbeck does such an amazing job at showing that the german soldiers were humans that laugh, cry, feel, and bleed just like us, while still condemning their actions. i understand that people want to see nazis, and their enemies in general, as monsters rather than people. life would be so much simpler that way, but bad guys still do good things, and good guys still do bad things. of course nazis deserve to burn, but they will still hurt while it happens. last time i gave it an 8 this time it’s getting a 10. cannery row well i’m sore as hell that i haven’t read this one before, but it made me too happy to be too upset for too long. steinbeck at his most taoist. i wish i could crawl into this world and hang out with these people. the fomo is especially strong since so many of them are based off of real people like ed rickets. (smash btw) i would get a quote from this one tattooed if i didn’t dislike tattoos with letters and if all my favorite quotes weren’t paragraphs long. i’m so looking forward to reading the sequel. 10/10 58 the pearl i haven’t read this for almost 5 years, yet i remembered every single piece. that didn’t stop rereading it from being even better than the first time, though. this story so gracefully tackles issues of class, gender, and race in less than a hundred pages. steinbeck is the reason i will never take “they were from a different time” as a valid excuse. this man is more “woke” than any contemporary man i know of. i could talk about him all day but my words will never do his words justice. also ,,, smash,,, js 10/10 of course
