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Summary: UNABRIDGED!!!!!
Review: This is an UNABRIDGED reading of the Steinbeck classic, and it is wonderful. My juniors loved it, and so did I. Can't wait until next year when I teach this book again! Gary Sinise does an amazing job making distinct all the characters in this novel. One would think other people are reading these characters, but it is all Gary. The movie that Mr. Sinise directed and starred in is also wonderful. We all loved it!
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Summary: well I didn't HATE it.........
Review: But I do hate Steinbeck's style. Simple, short, too to the point, and lacking description. The story, a touching one of friendship. The writing style, simplistic, almost the "once upon a time..." fairy tales. Yes, he does describe tons of scenery, but he does it in a simple fashion. This book is very to the point. He doesn't show off his vocabulary, and he's wording isn't so eloquent as many other authors. He uses a limited variety of words, and a limited usage of language. The reader gets to know and understand charters by dialog alone. An author like this should be able to use vocabulary above that of a fourth grader ... it limits the writing. The larger the vocabulary the more you understand it. The story line was great, the characters touching, but really, the language ... simple and uneloquent.
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Summary: A Powerful Story
Review: Between the haunting characterization and the brilliant story-telling, Steinbeck created a novella that captures the human experience with an eerie certainty. Like Hemingway, the few words used create more power than other authors who can be sometimes accused of over-stating their point.
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Summary: A simple tale for the ages
Review: An outstanding, chilling, and thought provoking book that helped to shape my thought processes as an adolescent when I read the book for the first time, Of Mice and Men is Steinbeck's most succinct piece. A delicacy I enjoyed again this past summer, its messages change, its characters evolve, and its definitions are redefined with a readers age and experience.Regardless, this book is a classic and a staple for any fan of literature.
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Summary: It's Wierd
Review: This book is wierd because in the end the main character shoots his mentally challenged frined in the back of the head, and hes tellin him a story abot his happiness
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Summary: Amazing example of literary techniques
Review: All the reviews here will tell you that this is a classic and what the book is about. However, I haven't found a review applauding the author's mastery of the art of writing. That's what this review will tell you and the others may not. This book has some of the best examples of anticipation/suspense, climax, resolution, and most of all foreshadowing, that I've ever had the pleasure of reading. If you want to know what true writing is all about, then you MUST read this masterpiece. It is a relatively quick read, but one that will stay with you forever.
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Summary: An amazing tale of friendship and loyalty.
Review: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a classic tale of loyalty and friendship. It is about two friends named George Milton and Lennie Small who are a couple of laborers going from job to job. Steinbeck is able to capture the personalities of two poverty stricken friends during the great depression. George, a small out spoken man is responsible for Lennie, a larger hardworking man whom is mentally retarded. Both share a common dream of owning some land and being treated fairly. But a cloud of bad luck shadows them. Of Mice and Men was well written and easy reading
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Summary: A classic tale of friendship and loyality.
Review: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is a classic tale of loyalty and friendship. It is about two friends name George Milton and Lennie Small who are a couple of laborers going from job to job. Both share a common dream of owning some land and being treated fairly. It was well written and I enjoyed reading it very much. I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: Of Mice and Men
Review: I feel that this is an ageless classic. One that a person can relate to no matter what the age is of the person and what the year is that this story is being read. I would recommend this book to anyone. I read it as a teenager and again as an adult and still felt as thought I could relate to the characters.
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Summary: Of Mice And Men
Review: I like Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck because the definition of the characters was so realistic. I also liked the fact that it was in the novella form so the possibility that the story might drag did not happen.
I would recommend Of Mice And Men not only to afficionados of Steinbeck, but to virtually anyone who enjoys real-life prose.
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