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Title: The Other Side of Eden: Life With John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck IV, Nancy Steinbeck, Andrew Harvey ISBN: 1-57392-858-5 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a saga...NOT BORING!!!
Comment: I'm reading this book in conjuction with Oprah's book club choice, East of Eden. I just had to respond to the person below who called the book boring, because I cannot put it down! People who drink alcholically are not weak minded, as the poster states. If self control could stop an addict, there would be no need for treatment centers and 12 Step programs. I found the story of recovery which weaves its way through John and Nancy Steinbeck's marriage to be tremendously inspiring and uplifting.
And I'm glad there's more to the book than an expose of Steinbeck's shadow side. This is an epic page turner which runs the gamut from the Steinbecks involvement with Beatniks, Hippies, Tibetan Buddhism, Viet Nam Vets, Anti-war protests,
Recovery, New Age gurus; it's truly a chronical for any baby boomer to find something that resonates in their own mythology.
The book has also helped readers on the Oprah Book Club board understand the psychological dynamics amongst the characters of East of Eden, as played out in the real lives of Steinbeck's sons. I love this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: boring...very little about John Steinbeck
Comment: I checked this out of the library during one of my research 'attacks'. I was actually researching the life of Ed Ricketts and got dragged back into a Cannery Row-John Steinbeck 'binge'. I thought it would be interesting to read about John Steinbeck through the eyes of a son. However, the is very very little in this book about John Steinbeck and way too much about a weak-minded son. Boring. If you are interested in reading about someone who spends his life trying to find meaning in life via others (ie. cult life) and who cannot find strength within himself....who is too weak to deal with life without chemicals....this may be interesting to you. But there wasn't anything insightful here for me. Be warned....
Rating: 5
Summary: Haunting and revealing
Comment: This biography of life with John Steinbeck is written by his son, who grew up in a privileged world of the intellectual elite, but one laden with abuse and estrangement. His memoir ended with his life and here is reconstructed by his wife of twelve years who adds her own insights to full out the life of John Steinbeck. Haunting and revealing.
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Title: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction by John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw, Jackson J. Benson ISBN: 0670030627 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: A Russian Journal (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck, Robert Capa ISBN: 0141180196 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140144188 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (Twentieth Century Classics) by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0140187499 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Zapata by John Steinbeck, Robert E. Morsberger ISBN: 0140173226 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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