The Red Pony and The Moon Is Down, Steinbeck.
I really liked the latter. It's a short novel about an imaginary Nazi invasion of a small Northern European town.
Oh I eventually ended up loving Cannery Row.
Something that makes it hard to read Steinbeck (besides someone getting their head blown off once in a while) is that there's usually something awful happening to animals. I obviously like his style, though, or I wouldn't keep reading more. I have a few more short novels of his to read here.
Paused the Steinbeck binge to read Ray Bradbury's short stories:
Dandelion Wine
The Foghorn
The Veldt (really fuckin Freudian)
My faves so far. The guy sounds like García Márquez or Borges sometimes when he blurs reality and fantasy. I didn't know he was that poetic. Sometimes I even have to slow down because it's a lot. Underappreciated, though.
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Can somebody tell me where this has been all my life.
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Tortilla Flat, Steinbeck.
What in God's name possessed Steinbeck to have his chicano characters address each other as "thou"? I think he wants to translate the informal "you", but it sounds really wrong. It's like he said, "Hey, we have that in English too," then proceeds to make the bums in his story speak in Shakespearean English.
What in God's name possessed Steinbeck to have his chicano characters address each other as "thou"? I think he wants to translate the informal "you", but it sounds really wrong. It's like he said, "Hey, we have that in English too," then proceeds to make the bums in his story speak in Shakespearean English.