Grapes of Wrath

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The current economic atmosphere has me thinking about that book - a lot! It was a great book.

Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 5:29 am Post subject: re: Grapes of Wrath

I read it in 7th grade and loved it. Can't remember what it was about though, LOL. I just remember the term "Oakies".
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Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 5:41 am Post subject: re: Grapes of Wrath

I don't remember this one, but I do remember Of Mice and Men...
Sometimes when my ds gives me those bone-crushing hugs of his, I am tempted to say, "soften your grip, Lenny!" Laughing

Sorry, Off topic again...ahem... Embarassed

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Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 5:44 am Post subject: re: Grapes of Wrath

I just remember that John Steinbeck was one heck of a writer.

Cool avatar, Mimivan! (and it's ABOUT TIME)

Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 5:51 am Post subject: re: Grapes of Wrath

And a journalist...the best novelists started out as journalists Wink

Thanks. I kept saying I wasn't going to get an avatar until GR got one...but I changed my mind.

Anyway, back to Steinbeck.

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After I read the Grapes of Wrath, I got some more books of Steinbeck but could not get into them as well.

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THE REBBEH!!!!!!
GR, that's what you get for reducing him to 80x80 pixels.
IS it the Rebbeh?

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Oops, I made a mistake. It's mimivan's avatar. I think it's a hologram of the Rebbeh or something like that.

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(Is Grapes of Wrath the one where they all run to California to pick grapes? Or is that a different one of Steinbeck's? My memory is failing. Rolling Eyes

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Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 1:38 pm Post subject: re: Grapes of Wrath

I doubt the situation can be as bad. Children aren't dying of hunger BH.
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Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 2:18 pm Post subject: Re: re: Grapes of Wrath

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Posted: Mon, Oct 06 2008, 2:21 pm Post subject: Re: re: Grapes of Wrath

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I remember the part about the pregnant young woman on the journey whose baby stopped growing inside her and it was obvious to everyone that she was going to have a stillborn, and she was in denial. Horrible. Sad

I think that's the same book anyway.

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I remember her nursing that dying man at the end of the book. Her name was Rose of Sharon. I think I read that book almost forty years ago.

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Yeah. I remembered something like that.
What a depressing story. After I closed the last page of the book I didn't want to read it ever again. And I can usually read a book dozens of times.