Re: What Are You Reading?
What's Brick Lane?
I've heard of Shaw, but I don't know anything about him other than his name.
Anyway, you haven't heard of The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden? The Grapes of Wrath is arguably Steinbeck's most popular, best-loved book, though Of Mice and Men gives it a serious run in both of those categories. East of Eden is more epic, it has to do with the re-enactment of the fall of Cain and Abel by two California families. It was his most abitious book, but not too many people have heard of it. If they have, it was probably because Elia Kazan made a movie out of it which starred James Dean.
I've given up on two books in the last month. One was Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy, and the other was White Jazz by James Ellroy. Neither could really hold my interest.
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We despise all reverences and all the objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.
Mark Twain
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