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Originally Posted by Sonic Youth 37
John Steinbeck. "East of eden" bored me to tears and "The Grapes Of Wrath" isn't much better. The whole structure of one chapter moving the story along and then the following chapter explain something in a kind of stream-of-conciousness way that will happen in the next chapter. It just doesn't work for me.
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See, I think East of Eden is a great and marvelous novel. It's difficult for me to understand how someone could think it was boring when I had a hard time putting it down, but that's all right. The Grapes of Wrath is good, but not on the level of East of Eden.