Just some rambling thoughts about The Grapes of Wrath, which I just recently read for the first time.
My first ramble is why did it take me so long to get around to reading this book?
If you read much you know that certain books stay with you more than others. For me, such books are Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, several of Jack London’s books and Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy to just name a few. This book will join that list. It is a powerful novel not easily forgotten. Continue reading “The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck”