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 donât think of this man. i am always ranting about how everyone wants to be seen as a good guy, but doesnât 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 didnât know better, i would never believe itâs 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 lifeâs purpose, and now youâre just waiting around to croak. the pony stuff is sad too, of course. iâm kinda going backwards with this review, but i love the quote âthey 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 themâ i first saw that quoted in jo jo meyersâ 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 itâs 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 didnât want to skip over it. iâll 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 itâs getting a 10. cannery row well iâm sore as hell that i havenât 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 didnât dislike tattoos with letters and if all my favorite quotes werenât paragraphs long. iâm so looking forward to reading the sequel. 10/10 58 the pearl i havenât read this for almost 5 years, yet i remembered every single piece. that didnât 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 âthey were from a different timeâ as a valid excuse. this man is more âwokeâ 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 Read more
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