I feel like reading some Steinbeck

I just reread his "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights."

Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row, and is a great book.

Cannery Row is short and damned good. East of Eden is worth a re-read. It's the closest thing we have to the Great American Novel, in my opinion.

The Pearl.

Read “The Pearl” in 6th grade. That ending was tragic.

I thought we were going to read “The Black Pearl” with the giant monster manta ray but no…

I'm so sorry, OP! Do you need something? Chicken soup, maybe? I have the doctor on speed dial for you.

Feel better soon!

Next, read "Grapes Of Wrath" and "The Log From The Sea Of Cortez".

I love, love The Pearl.

^^^^ Necklace

Of Mice and Men

Cannery Row sucks.

Wasn’t the movie of “Cannery” a flop anyway?

Dunno about a film, but a musical version by Rodgers and Hammerstein was a huge flop.

Travels with Charlie—we had to read it as part of effort to teach us prose writing…not so much that it was a great book.

Op, when you do—I’ll be there.

I love Cannery Row. It’s a slice of life in early 20th century Cali like no other.

There was no Cali in the 20th century…nor in this century

To a God Unknown. Lovely and sad just the way I like ‘em!

Of Mice and Men is perfect in its economy and efficiency.

I concur on Mice and Men.

Read "The Pearl."

Do it on a Tuesday. Puking for three days afterwards will leave you svelte for Friday night.

His The Other Side of Midnight was pure trash.

Holy shit, I forgot about The Pearl. I grew up about a mile from Cannery Row, so we read A LOT of Steinbeck (and Robert Louis Stevenson) in school. We started with The Red Pony in 5th grade and by the time we were in high school we had gone through most of his work and were reading things like The Moon is Down and The Log of the Sea of Cortez. Not a bad place to grow up at all.

Oh you Monterey and Santa Cruz types…always showing off!

Yup, Of Mice and Men is the obvious one.

Well, we have a lot to show off!

r26, well, then we hit puberty and moved to SF, leaving behind the red neck by-the-sea hell holes of Monterey/Watsonville/Santa Cruz in the rear view window. Oopsie. Just went from Steinbeck to Hitchcock in two seconds. Always wanted to be Doc Ricketts's boy toy, but ended up married to a man from Lynn, MA and living near Daly City. Let's call it "Of Mice, Rats, Cockroaches, and Men With Thick Boston Accents".

from Lynn to Daly City…now that’s depressing

Not a fan of Steinbeck's grander novels (too much ham-fisted pontificating) but I did surprisingly enjoy "The Moon is Down" when I was in high school.