/lit/ - Literature

I love Steinbeck- I honestly cried after reading most of his books, then again I’m a softy. This one made me cry like a child

Surprised no one's mentioned it yet. I guess it lies too close to "I had to read it in school so it's automatically bad" territory for this board.

Found this book in the Grapes Section today at my local book store. Why the fuck would a guy write such a long book about angry grapes?

Just finished this and I gotta say, I'm underwhelmed. From a Nobel winning writer and one of the most acclaimed american authors (and from one of the most likely candidates for "great american novel"), I was expecting much more.

>way too long.
>way too repetitive.
>inelegant style, not a single truly beautiful sentence in the entire novel.
>no subtext whatsoever, Steinbeck punches you in the face with his ideology every 10 pages.
>characters are so busy talking like "le wise peasant that is poor and ignorant but actually much smarter than le educated evil capitalist pigs" that they forget to be realistic.
>some Checkov's guns remain unfired (why make such a big deal of the fact that Tom is breaking the law by leaving the state, and then never do anything with it?).
>no real closure: the grapes of wrath are finally mature and ready for harvest, but we never see the consequences after being teased with them for 600 pages.
>symbolism so obvious it pulled me out of the story (Casy's Jesus-like death, with him QUOTING JESUS AS HE GOT KILLED ("You don't know what you're doing") and the characters later saying "He did it for us, he died for us". Jesus Christ, Steinbeck).

PROS:
>some decent sentences.

Overall, 5/10. Was expecting much better.
Maybe 90 years ago this overexplanatory and too explicit style was necessary to be understood, but now this reads like a clumsy attempt from a somewhat talented but still green author. I see people comparing Cormac McCarthy to Steinbeck and wonder who was the better author. Lol. Lmao, even.

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I'm currently reading this book I randomly came across in a thrift store it was pretty fucked up but I loved the writing style on the first few pages so I found the pdf online, been trying to finish it but I'm just way too much of a zoomer. but I'm enjoying it so far

also op you shouldn't read foreign books not in their original language especially an Eastern language, it's pretty much a different book than the original if not in Japanese or whatever

>one dimensional saintly farmers vs one dimensional le evil corporations written by a silver spoon socialist retard
Remind me why you pseuds like this book again?

What the FUCK did I just read? Why is California cursed to forever care for the poor people of the United States?

> Truckers are good but tractor drivers are bad even though they represent the same thing

> Bro corporations and banks are heckin evil, OK?!?!

>Sheltered upper class Californiacuck writes a book about how corporations are Le Bad and poor white farmers are Le Good

Why is this called Grapes of Wrath instead of Dust of Wrath

>100 pages in

ayo dis shit lit. my man johnny cookin slowly in dis but dang its sum good shit yall know what im sayin

What are some good examples of Proletarian literature? pic-related

What are some books that made you cry at the end???

People like to characterize nations or peoples as having a spirit - for example, the German spirit is rationalist, obsessive, rule-following, etc., and this is exemplified by not only historical periods and events (Protestantism, Enlightenment thought, Nazism) but also modern habits such as the tendency to plan everything or a strong sense of principles and rule-following. Similarly, such characterizations can be and often are given for Russia, England, Ireland, etc.
What sort of characterization ought to be given for the US, if any at all? What about for Canada/Mexico? My first thought are things like industrialism, obsession with a "hard day's work" and ruggedness, hyper-individuality, money as status, and so on.

Thoughts on The Grapes of Wrath?

>A bloo bloo bloo the evil capitalists heckin starved me!

>A bloo bloo bloo the mechanization of agriculture is le bad

>Corporations are… LE BAD

Anyone else literally Noah? It's tough sometimes bros...

>teen girl breastfeeding an old man
wtf Steinbeck was a fucking freak

This is the first real novel I have picked up in over 20 years. I wanted to stop reading books like Stephen King and Tom Clancy because they just weren't fulfilling anymore. This book has heart, frens. It has heart.

>I'm tar'd
>I'm hungry, I aint et
>Fella just want to work
>Mans gotta eat
Shut up already you dumb Okies