/lit/ - Literature

>>14277163
>Okay this might be the perfect piece of literature.
>I think I was put off it because in school we were all forced to read Of Mice and Men and I assumed this was more of the same, but holy shit was I wrong.

This, but Grapes of Wrath I'm not even a socialist and I still believe it's the most perfect book written in the 20th century, and among the best written in all of English Lit.

>Didn't have to read it in high school
>Went into the book not thinking I'd like it, thought it was just going to be high school-core but figured I'd give it a chance
>Fell in love almost immediately, ended up reading it in about 2 1/2 days
>Read more than 3/4ths of the book on the final day, legitimately, no joke, "thought" in the accent of the speakers of the book for about a day.
>Not even a socialist but could still understand Steinbeck's point
And that ending was just fucking spot on.

>>9909494
Also this. I didn't think I'd think it was anything special when I read the blurb on the back, but I cried reading it.