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Title: Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0-14-004240-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (73 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful book
Comment: I am constantly amazed by Steinbeck's characters. His dialogue is so fresh and real, and the people who populate his seaside town are so vivid and different, that I can't even think of what to compare it to. I know everyone talks about the King Arthur parallel, but I could care less. I'm wrapped up in these lives regardless of grand themes and overarching motives. I leave that to the critics and the professors. Did I feel something, that's my only criteria. And I did.
Check out Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden for Steinbeck's best. Also check out Pastures of Heaven (a personal favorite).
Rating: 5
Summary: Tortilla Flat -- An unexpected delight.
Comment: "Tortilla Flat" was an unexpected delight. I started reading without any knowledge of plot or character. The simplified perspective of Pilon, Danny and the other Paisanos helped me realize that some of my own concerns were really not that important. I found myself laughing and crying; all the while quite eager to share each episode with my friends.
The message of "Tortilla Flat" is quite relevant in today's society, even though so much has changed and modernized. The stories of the vacuum and what the friends do with the two houses were particularly humorous. "Tortilla Flat" is a beautiful sentiment about friendship and wine. I loved this book and would highly recommend it to others.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ignorance grows as the warning grows
Comment: This book is not quite as beautifully written as "Of Mice and Men", but it has a very powerful and true message albeit it might be a little exaggerated in this particular story. It's a tale about the power of the dreams that drives us, taking us places where we didn't dream of going, and neither wanted to go. It's a story about taking one apparently harmless step that forces you to take another step, and yet another until you end up where you didn't expect, one little step that only the wise would avoid taking. It's also a story about day and night, what happens on the surface and what happens beneath.
The message becomes apparent early in the book, but it grows stronger and stronger as the main characters grow more and more ignorant towards it. While reaching the last pages my adrenalin was pumping, knowing that something was going to happen, but not knowing exactly what and I was somewhat surprised by the ending.
This is the second book I've read by Steinbeck and definitely not the last.
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Title: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177388 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140187537 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Sweet Thursday (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140187502 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140177396 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0142000663 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 03 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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