Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)

This was a good read and it made me cry at the end. Thankyou for an emotional well read book. I enjoyed reading Of Mice and Men. 5 star 🌟

I homeschool my kiddos. My 9th grader is given specific books where she needs to answer questions about each chapter, the book overall, and write summaries as well as discuss sections. It’s a good book to read, there are sad parts. It is a quick read as well. I do think it’s important to bring reading back for kids and literature in multiple forms. Really good price.

The book I read was Of Mice and Men. It was written by John Steinbeck. The main conflict of this book was for these two men George and Lennie to make their dream of farming their own farm and where they could raise rabbits come true. They would travel from farm to farm and do work on different farms to make their living. In this book there were many things I liked and a few things I didn't like. The book was very exciting to read. It was so exciting because I was always wondering what was going to happen next and I didn't want to put the book down. I really felt like I was actually in the book. I felt this way because Steinbeck described everything so well, and I could picture every scene that happened. The main conflict interested me a lot. It interested me because there were many obstacles that Lennie and George had to face throughout the book and I just wanted to see if they could make their dream come true. I thought that the characters felt very real. They seemed real because Steinbeck gave the right amount of descriptions about each of them. The ending was very satisfying. It was a bit sad and I think it could have been better but if it ended differently the book wouldn't have been as good. The author John Steinbeck's writing style is unusual. The author's voice is a narrative style and it's written in the way the characters actually spoke. The characters talk like poor, uneducated people. The author uses vocabulary in an interesting way. He uses poor grammar and slang words to speak like the characters. The author uses a lot of dialog in this book. The two main characters speak to each other a lot. I think that the author is a very good writer because I could actually hear the voice of the characters. He describes things but he doesn't go overboard to make it boring. Compared to other books that I have read I would rate this book an eight out of ten. I give it this rating because it was a very good book and held my attention but there were a few parts he could have changed, like the ending. I recommend this book to any guy or girl. It is a very fast and good read. Overall this was one of the best books I have ever read. I would put this book in my top twenty favorite books. I've read another book by Steinbeck called The Pearl that I didn't really enjoy. I hope other books by Steinbeck are this god. Some other things that happened in this book was that Lennie wasn't very educated and George would always have to look out for him. Lennie loved to pet soft things. He would catch a mouse put it in his pocket and pet the mouse and squeeze it so hard that the mouse accidentally died. This would upset George a lot.

Every student in high school should read this book!

This is another one of the classic works of American literature that is frequently assigned to high school students. As always, there are the idiotic 1-star non-reviews as a result, but compared to most other "assignment" books, relatively few compared with the 5-stars, so it must still hit a responsive chord in high school. Though I have been re-reading numerous high school "assignment" books, in order to judge how my impression changed over the decades, regrettably this was a first-time read for me, thanks to the encouragement of a fellow Amazon reviewer. I have read, and some cases re-read some of Steinbeck's other works, most notably The Grapes of Wrath , as well as Travels with Charley in Search of America , East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) and Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition) . "Of Mice and Men" is set during The Great Depression, in California, and there are similarities between it and "Grapes" as well as "Cannery," which also portray the "down and out" who are sometimes "abstracted" into terms such as "surplus labor" or "lumpen proletariat." One of the beauties of this book is that there is nothing "abstract" about Steinbeck's heart-rendering depiction of two "drifters," Lenny and George, who move from farm to farm, as "casual" laborers, harboring dreams of being able to set just enough aside to get their own place, where they will be eternally happy. Seemingly an odd couple, Steinbeck describes a symbiotic relationship. Lenny is of barely functioning intellectual capacity, but has enormous strength. George is wiry, with the relative brains to take care of the two of them. The foreshadowing of ultimate doom occurs early, around the campfire along the river, as they discuss how they will act at the next farm, with George doing the talking. At the farm, a small group of other characters is revealed. Perhaps the most interesting is Crooks, the only Black in the group, who endures the segregation and second class status due to his skin color that was all too prevalent as an "acceptable fact" during the 1930's. Curley is ugly and vicious, and very insecure, having married a "tart," who still harbors her lost opportunities of making in big in the pictures. She taunts virtually all the men with her sexuality. Slim is the straw boss, and seems to fulfill that role admirably. And the amusements and diversions of migrant men are also depicted, in the trips into town when the work is done, and all the hard-earned money is frittered away on an evening's pleasure. An thus those dreams of a place of one's own all too often remain only that. Ah... the ending is a fulfillment of that initial "doom" that was forecast, like an ancient Greek play. Utterly unforgettable. Throughout this rather short book, Steinbeck proves a master at furnishing the details that develop the characters. Sparse, while maintaining high dramatic tension. 5-stars, plus.

The ink of the front of the book comes off, leaving the white marks on my hands

A bit difficult to follow the century-old language but that’s what makes this novella more real and compassionate.

I have not read this Steinbeck for years. It is such a powerful short novel that I will want to read it again soon. The friendship between two men in California in the depression era leads to some very difficult dilemmas for the man with the stronger personality. He cares for his friend who is intellectually slow. They share a dream to own their own farm. Reality gets in the way! The different personalities of all the cast are beautifully written in the minimum words. The only female in the tale is so sensitively written that even as she causes problems for all the men, I felt sympathy for her. Steinbeck's talent to create a whole world in a few short sentences has been a source of pleasure to me over my reading history. I think I first read him in the mid 1960s and have reread most of hid books since. I don't know why I hadn't read Of Mice and Men more often.

Buen libro, para alumnos de inglés avanzado.

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