Reviews of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (ISBN:0140042393) | weRead
 
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AndreHaero posted a review at 2009-11-24 13:03:43. (Language: English)
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 The grapes of wrath are growing heavy for the vintage...
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Timothy posted a review at 2009-11-23 13:44:19. (Language: English)
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 This is one of my all-time favorite books. I love most of Steinbeck's work and this is one of his best. The story of the Joad family is not an easy read and if you love endings where all is sunshine and puppy dogs then you will be disappointed. This is real, gritty stuff. Wonderful.
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Natalie posted a review at 2009-11-21 02:38:47. (Language: English)
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 My number two favourite book of all time :=)
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Beth posted a review at 2009-11-20 16:07:44. (Language: English)
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 another one of my fav reads. The movie was okay, but the book is stellar. :-)
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-19 20:40:49. (Language: English)
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 Required reading...way too long and too depressing.
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Delores posted a review at 2009-11-19 07:24:58. (Language: English)
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 What a writer! The movie with Henry FONDA WAS EXCELLENT!
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Timothy posted a review at 2009-11-18 22:49:47. (Language: English)
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 There were several moments in reading "The Grapes of Wrath" where I had to set the book down and just feel the emotions that these characters were undergoing. The book resonated with me through pretty much everything I was doing in the week it took me to read it. I couldn't get the Joads out of my mind, much less the economic crisis the country was undergoing during that time period. One can be cliche and compare it to the current administration's "teeter totter-ing" budget deficit. But this novel is much more than that.

John Steinbeck clearly paints the portrait of a starving country and slow demise of the agricultural loss the United States underwent during the 1930s with such poetric precision, I wept openly at several scenes. To think that close to 100 years later we are still feeling the backlash of such a mammoth event is dumbfounding. It should be criminal.

Carefully weaving the plant life, the mass Exodus of migrant workers, and a single family among those migrant workers, Steinbeck provides us with a literary masterpiece that goes down in the cannon of classic fiction. That something as wonderfully moving could come out of such dispair is the bittersweet nectar that flows from the California crops these hungry hands read for. I was hungery for every word on every page. I was riveted and charged.

"The Grapes of Wrath" is the stuff revolutions are made of.
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Angie posted a review at 2009-11-12 00:10:15. (Language: English)
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 very good depiction of the dust bowl era
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Linda posted a review at 2009-11-11 23:48:33. (Language: English)
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 Humanity doesn't change!
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Heather posted a review at 2009-11-10 15:01:38. (Language: English)
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 What can you say really? This truly is a classic. It is an epic story, really. Classic!
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