2006-08-29 12:39:56 · 15 answers · asked by Loved By Someone Above 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Well, of course "The Grapes of Wrath", however, even if it will never be considered a great book, "Tortilla Flat" is the most fun.
"The Winter of Our Discontent" seems to be a different genre from his earlier stories that were set in California. Not sure that I cared for it. But you did not ask for our nonfavorite.
2006-08-29 16:37:48 · answer #1 · answered by veritas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a favorite Steinbeck book because I was forced to read few of them in school and I didn't like any of them.
2006-08-29 12:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by Emina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked always enjoyed "Travels with Charley", a friend of mine recommended it me a long time ago. I think I liked it because it was a true story about Steinbeck and his dog traveling across the country and all the people and adventures they had while doing so. It was very interesting to me.
2006-08-29 12:45:24 · answer #3 · answered by snl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of Mice and Men. read it long ago. John Steinbeck books are depressing to me.
2006-09-06 07:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by makeitright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Grapes of Wrath
The Joad Family life in the depression moving from Oklahoma to California
2006-08-29 12:42:01 · answer #5 · answered by Shano3651 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
east of eden.
it's a contemporary examination of the biblical eden myth (adam and eve, cain and abel), following a new england family as they migrate to california. that story is interwoven with an autobiography/memoir of steinbeck's own mother's family in california. fiction and nonfiction interweave.
this, along with grapes of wrath, is one of steinbeck's two masterpieces and definitely the one that influenced me the most.
2006-08-29 13:01:19 · answer #6 · answered by sweetness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath
Although some people feel like the ending of the book was not really and ending to anything because they didn't settle down, I feel it's showing the grouwth from one level of maturity to another. The end shows how the characters have moved from one stage of their lives to another.
2006-08-29 13:02:27 · answer #7 · answered by maralshabak 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath - about the exodus of the Okies (Oklahomans) from the dust bowl in the 1930s. Very moving.
2006-09-05 16:53:13 · answer #8 · answered by ebemdpa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I picked up "Travels With Charley" as a kid when I first learned to read, loved it. I've re-read it several times since then. I think it's great - underrated by most people. You know what I mean.
I also recommend reading "Harvest Gypsies," (JS's newspaper articles about migrant workers), "Working Days" (his diary as he wrote "Grapes of Wrath"), and "Grapes of Wrath," all in succession. Each illuminates the other.
2006-08-30 15:06:40 · answer #9 · answered by Tekguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath.
It is depression era book, the era in which my father was born and raised so it made me understand what he went through as a child with a widowed mother and little money much better.
2006-08-29 12:43:05 · answer #10 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋