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TagsFantasy (164), 20th Century Literature (104), American Literature (99), Science Fiction (80), Dungeons and Dragons (67), British Literature (61), Philosophy (47), 19th Century Literature (26), Forgotten Realms (24), History (23) — see all tags

GroupsFantasyFans, Graduate Students, The Green Dragon

Favorite authorsHermann Hesse, George Orwell, John Steinbeck (Shared favorites)

About me I'm an M.A. Candidate in English Literary History at Ohio University. I live with my girlfriend, my cat, and my books, in a cozy apartment. These days I'm either teaching, reading, writing, or watching Star Trek: the Next Generation.

About my library I keep a library in Columbus and in Athens, OH. The Athens library is professional--literary theory, classics, philosophy--and the library in Columbus is fun--sci-fi, fantasy, historical fiction. Books travel between the two, given the amount of free time I have while as school or the amount of work I need to do while at home.

I like older, used books, and this is mostly due to the fact that I'm generally cheap--an attribute I've developed from living too long on too low a salary.

Homepagehttp://acoffeeandapaperback.blogspot.com/

Real nameJason Carney

LocationAthens, Ohio

Emailjrcarney52yahoo.com

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Member sinceJul 15, 2007

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Hi, I love these novels too, they're such a fun read that I re-read them from time to time. I haven't seen the movie yet, I'd like to see it but I've read so dreadful comments about it that I don't know if it's better to forget about it, what's your advice?

posted by elwen at 2:03 pm (EST) on May 16, 2008

Hi, I saw in the Graduate Student's thread that you are working on a thesis about Steinbeck, and I had to say hi because he is also one of my favorite authors. As a Steinbeck expert, what do you think about To a God Unknown? It always seemed to be a bit of a outlier in his collection of works, although now that I think about it the pantheism in To a God Unknown probably shares quite a bit in common with that in The Grapes of Wrath. As to your thesis topic, it always seemed to me like Grapes of Wrath was one of Steinbeck's "political tract" novels, like the Moon is Down or the Pearl. East of Eden seems like a different type of novel entirely, more philosophical. I'm sure that is a vast oversimplification though. How is the thesis work going?

posted by jlelliott at 3:25 pm (EST) on Mar 14, 2008

Jason,

I tried the Library Thing Local feature, found that you there and learned that you and I have 20 of the same books in our libraries! Imagine that!

Wanda Weinberg

posted by Wanda_Weinberg at 2:20 pm (EST) on Mar 12, 2008

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