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Summary: Of mice and men
Review: ive just finished reading this book and like many others was forced to read it to answer year 11 course work, although i was pleasently surprised. A book full of dreams even in a sad discrimative world. This book shows a very unusual couple Lennie and George working and living together to make their simply dreams come true, until life comes along in its interfering way.
The best and most moving thing ive ever read with a true and powerful message true to us all. Not to be missed.
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book is a good one. When I first read it it was about a six on my scale of 1-10. But now I have started to realize that it is more of an eight. maybee nine. This book goes so much deeper than one can imagine, and when you think about it it really is a shock. A shock of how much the american dream has changed, and how friendship can be destroyed. This book does make you think of society and the hopes of reaching goals, it challenges and disturbes you as you read it (actually as you think of it). But overall this book is powerful and it plays on your emotions quite weel, so it is definately a good choice of reading.
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Summary: The reality
Review: In this book, Steinbeck bring us to a true world of how guys search for their home and dream.The story cotains love and a careing man. It tells the love that two men can feel for each other. He wrote a great story about guys in America, which he describe as of mice and men.The two main characters George and Lennie. George had no family and no friends, but he traveled along with a guy called Lennie all the time. Lennie was a dump, stronge man, he follows what George orders.He is just like a big baby, and he made troubles.They went to work in a range, inside the range they meet other workers. George told them his dream is to buy a piece fo land in S'pose and settle down. He promised Lennie that he would stay with him and let him to pet rabbits. The S'pose is the dreamland of every men.It is a quiet and peace place.From the book ,the rabbits told us how childish Lennie was, and why he made a bigger trouble. In between the story there is a coloured man named Crook,the story has shown how he was comletely isolated and brutal.He try to discourage Lennie by telling him George will not come back for him.There is another man Curley who dislikes Lennie, the son of the boss of the range.He was little, so he dislikes Lennie as Lennie is big and stronge.Lennie make another big trouble, he killed Curley's wife. Lennie did not mean to , he did not want George to be mad at him ,so he tried to ask that girl not to yell.As he is too stronge , he killed the woman. Lennie went to the brush, as he was told by George that whenever he made a trouble , he should hide in the brush near the river and wait for him.Lennie do stuggle of weather he should hide and stay with George. At last he went to the brush, George told him he was not mad at him ,and they will go to S'pose. Howerver, George killed Lennie, he was tired to a responsibility of Lennie, so haven is the place for Lennie.
I would recommand this book because the writer had a great work in writing Lennie.He clearly let us know how innoncent men were, sometimes they were small as mice. Also, he has good understanding of George. The contradiction George face. The story tell us how every men has a dream. They want a little bit of land, not much, just something that was his own. Also,the peoblems that they may come with in attending their dream. I think Lennie did noting wrong , he was loyality to George.For George i think he has no choice, he has to kill him. I can feel how sad George was when he killed Lennie. The story was touching when Lennie saw George in the brush, and George told him he will take care of him forever.It can show Lennie was right to wait George. I like the story because it tells me the truth side of human Nature! There is racism,innocent, contradiction and love. 524 words
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Summary: Great story
Review: A classic, terrific story, I would recommend it to anyone!
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Summary: Moving and True
Review: This is maybe the best book I ever read. Short and easy to read, it tells the story of George and Lennie, two dreamers, who one day hope to find a place of their own -- until life butts in and shatters their beautiful plans. This is a very moving and somehow realistic book that left me very touched. It's a great book. Other books I like: The Losers' Club by Richard Perez, Post Office by Charles Bukowski
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Summary: Of Men's Dreams Lost
Review: Set in Depression-era California, "Of Mice & Men" is perhaps the most cleanly and concisely written of the great American novels. Reading it, in fact, is more like reading a short story or, more precisely, a tragic play. (Note how Steinbeck begins almost every chapter with a description of the place in which the chapter's events unfold, almost like stage directions.) Steinbeck's creation of the man-child Lennie Small, his description and development of the dream shared by Lennie and his guardian-friend George Milton, and the foreshadowed, heart-wrenching conclusion are all sublime. A must-read and must-own. (And wonderful to read outside on a beautiful afternoon in September, with sunlight like California's all around. Feel free to call in sick ...)
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Summary: The Best Book I Was Ever Forced To Read...
Review: Twice, once in a Junior High English Class and again in High School I was required to read John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." Each time I have read it since, I have enjoyed it more and more. It is a brief, easy-to-read but emotionally resonant novel about two migrant workers set in the California countryside. As with most of Steinbeck's classic work, the prose is very discriptive while not being clunky or overly verbose. The themes of friendship and brotherly love are apparent on every page and aren't as emotionally manipulative as many books that try to be today. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a great read. Unlike many alleged "classics" I've been forced to read in class its actually a great book and I had no problem reading it outside of class (I couldn't say as much for A Farewell To Arms, but oh well :-) ). I would recommend this book for anyone from a mature junior high reader up. The violence might be a little much for someone younger than that (and might be a reason why the book has been, unfortunately, banned so many times).
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Summary: Steinbecks trap
Review: This one's the most touching, in my view, of all Steinbeck's contributions to small joys in my life. The trap of human experience snaps shut too soon on two men you rapidly come to love.
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Summary: Steinbeck's masterpiece.
Review: This book is astonishingly emotional and it's writing style is clear and simple. This book will appeal to the older and younger readers alike. Great book for suggested family reading. Holds it's value and messages through time and will continue to. This edition is a bit pricey as this is a very short work and the publishing company did nothing to make this edition anything but typical. I say pick up a used one.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men review
Review: Of Mice and Men is the story of two men - George and Lennie. George is small and smart, and George is big and mentally challenged. George and Lennie are about to start working on a new farm; they had to leave a previous farm because Lennie got in "some trouble". Lennie has a preoccupation with things soft and pretty, which lands him in pretty big trouble. This book didn't immediately draw me in from the beginning. I thought the beginning was rather monotonous, but the pace quickly picks up when George and Lennie arrive on the farm. I found that this book is a beautiful portrayal of human compassion. George says that his life would be much better without Lennie, and perhaps it would be, but still you can tell that he cares very much for the gentle giant. George isn't the only example of "human compassion". You have Carlson who's probably on the extreme uncaring end. He's one of those people who feels that a life isn't valuable anymore once you're of no use. There's also Slim who's very kindhearted. He believes that you can tell if a person is good or not just from their manner of acting. Then, there's Crooks-the cynical stable hand-who likes to believe in the worse of men rather than the best. Also, Steinbeck did a very good job getting his point across using mostly dialogue. There is precious little description in this book, but that's okay because most of the emotion of the story is conveyed through dialogue.
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