Not surprising. I've never read the book, so I don't know exactly how "wooden", or,of course, how factual the prose is, but I'd give him some slack, I think it's his thoughts about America and society that are the points of the book. Some day I'll have to read the book and see if I still feel that way, I might not.
Even Steinbeck’s son John said he was convinced that his father never talked to many of the people he wrote about, and added, “He just sat in his camper and wrote all that [expletive].”
Yup. I just finished the book a few days ago and this doesn't surprise me at all. I sensed it, actually. But it's okay though, because he still wrote Grapes of Wrath which is the work of no mere mortal.
Not surprising. I've never read the book, so I don't know exactly how "wooden", or,of course, how factual the prose is, but I'd give him some slack, I think it's his thoughts about America and society that are the points of the book. Some day I'll have to read the book and see if I still feel that way, I might not.
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Yup. I just finished the book a few days ago and this doesn't surprise me at all. I sensed it, actually. But it's okay though, because he still wrote Grapes of Wrath which is the work of no mere mortal.