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... Of Mice and Men is the only Steinbeck I've read, but I've been meaning to to get to Cannery Row for a couple of years. The Pearl sounds good too. ... row are two favorites of mine--along with Travels with Charley. Moon Is Down is on my wishlist and I've just added The Pearl to the wishlist. I own and plan to read this year East of Eden. Can you tell I'm on a quest to read all of Steinbeck? :-) ... - and hard to scrub from the brain afterward. I know stuff like this really happens, it's just difficult, that's all.
The Pearl - Wow. Powerful writing. The story of what happens to a simple family in poverty when they discover a valuable pearl. It is incredibly tragic and I admit that I ... 1. *The Pearl by John Steinbeck
2. *Marked by P.C. Cast
3. *Betrayed by P.C. Cast
4. *Chosen by P.C. Cast
5. *White Fang by Jack London
6. *American Gods by Neil Gaiman
7. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
8. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
9. The Amber Spyglass by ... ... Of Mice and Men last year for the first time, too. I was so enchanted with Steinbeck after reading that one, that I read The Pearl immediately after it, but didn't love it so much. Steinbeck's writing was still superb though. I'll have to give The Grapes of Wrath another shot -- it was ... Hated and still do;
Silas Marner , The Yearling, The Pearl and The Old Man and the Sea.
As I matured (got old and cranky) I got over some of the dislikes and Hemingway and Steinbeck are two of my favorite authors ... Cannery Row--not as good as Of Mice and Men, but better than the only other Steinbeck besides those two that I've read (The Pearl).
Gonna take a 1001 break, I think...got two Early Reviewer books that I need to finally get through! The Pearl by John Steinbeck
All That Glitters by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott
Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy by Andrew M. Greeley Diamonds are Forever by Ian Fleming
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Jade Star by Catherine Coulter
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon ... by Zora Neale Hurston
141. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
142. The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
143. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Whew!~! With that one I finish my 999 challenge that I started in May and bumped my challenge up to 200 books. Wish me luck.
144. The Eyre ... Claire ~~ I'd recommend The Red Pony over the The Pearl but I really haven't read much Steinbeck. Did you like Travels with Charley? ... although that was several years ago now. I recently read a volume of his short novels that included Cannery Row, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men and a couple of others, so if you can find a copy of that, I highly recommend it as an introduction to Steinbeck's fiction. ... Flat, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath, The Long Valley, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Travels with Charley, The Pearl
1958 - Boris Pasternak: Dr. Zhivago
1957 - Albert Camus: L'Etranger, La Peste, The Fall,
1954 - Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea, ... I finished The Pearl by John Steinbeck mid-month and just hadn't posted yet. Kino, his wife Juana, and their son Coyotito live in the poor outskirts of a town on the seaside. Kino is a pearl diver. One day he finds a large beautiful pearl, which he knows he will get much money for and better his ... 36. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Category 5: Little Black Dress - Modern Classic Author
August RGG Side Read
Rating: good 
I finished this mid-month and just hadn't put the review up yet.
Kino, his wife Juana, and their son Coyo ...
25. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
August RGG Side Read
Rating: good
I finished this mid-month and just hadn't put the review up yet.
Ki ... The Pearl by John Steinbeck
August RGG Side Read
I finished this mid-month and just hadn't put the review up yet.
Kino, his wife Juana, and their son Coyotito live in the poor outskirts of a town on the seaside. Kino is a pearl diver. One day he finds a large beautiful pearl, which ... ... able to stick with it for long periods. But now it's done and I'm relieved. It got 3.5 stars (good).
I plan on started The Pearl by Steinbeck or Methland by Nick Reding. Methland was my May ER book. For some reason, I felt compelled to finished Forbidden Bread before starting it. ...
Books read: 35/81 = 43.210%
What I'm reading next:
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak - April ER book
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read ... read in this year: 8,721
What I'm reading next:
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak - April ER book
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read
Oooh, looking forward to your review of The Pearl! I just heard of it as I was reading False Economy (the author makes a reference to it) and Belva gave it a very good recommendation so it's on the TBR, waiting. ... Hurston
141. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
142. The Short Reigh of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
143. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Whew!~! With that one I finish my 999 challenge that I started in May and bumped my challenge up to 200 books. Wish me luck.
144. The ... ... and detail of experience that this incident had.
Books read: 34/81 = 41.975%
What I'm reading next:
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read
Methland by Nick Reding - May ER book ... had.
Book 23/50 = 46% completed
Pages: 281
Total pages read in this year: 8,642
What I'm reading next:
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read
Methland by Nick Reding - May ER book ... complexity, depth of emotions, and detail of experience that this incident had.
What I'm reading next:
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read
Methland by Nick Reding - May ER book >#197:
miss ellie;
I don't know of anyone who has read and not liked The Pearl. I really don't think you will be the first so keep scrambling girl. It's there somewhere and it is a real slim little volume. A small package but a mighty big story.
Your alphabet scenario is pretty interesting. ... OK, your review of The Pearl has just has me scrambling high and low in our office. I already wanted to read it, and a nice little copy came in the other day, and now I can't find it! Has it been sold? Did the former owner of said book not like our price and take their collection away again? H ... The Pearl by John Steinbeck
my thoughts and comments:
Another wonderful Steinbeck.
"The Pearl" is one John Steinbeck's smallest books. It is also an intense book, but it is very fluid and easy to read. It is about an island man who, like so many others, goes diving daily with no ... ... Red Pony the first time in 3rd grade and cried buckets and days over it. And then read it again. I don't think I read The Pearl until 5th or 6th grade. They are both so good and his books, to me, are timeless.
How is your reading of The Girl With the Dragoon Tatoo going? I finished Th ... ... I swear to all that is holy, they single handily caused my first depression episode. 8) Steinbeck just made me want to die (The Pearl). ... Pony may have been my first of his books, that I had read and that's going back to grammar school. It was either that or The Pearl. Having finished John Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV I am moving along to The Pearl by him. And that will close out my 999 challenge. Whoo hoo!~!
... remember hating Steinbeck in high school but look forward to reading more by him now. I read this book (and will be reading The Pearl in the next week) because a women I enjoy reading and discussing with in my online book club is a Steinbeck (and McCarthy) fan and has been reading several Steinbe ... ... I might not allow myself to start another book until I do. But I worry that I just won't read much then. I plan on reading The Pearl after that, followed by The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. ...
Books read: 33/81 = 40.741%
What I'm reading next:
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak - April ER book
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read
... read in this year: 8,361
What I'm reading next:
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak - April ER book
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read ...
What I'm reading next:
Forbidden Bread by Erica Johnson Debeljak - April ER book
The Pearl by Steinbeck - RGG Side Read ... Magnificent Ambersons by Tarkington Booth 
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R is for The Red Pony by John Steinbeck #22  rainpebble in 999 Challenge : nannybebette's 999 (Aug 25, 2009, 9:10pm) Note to self:
Two categories remaining with 3 books in each to be read.
Steinbeck:
1. The Pearl
2. The Short Reign of Pippin IV
3. The Red Pony
and
Virago/Persephone:
1. The Rising Tide
2. Travel Light
3. The Life and Death of Harriet Frean
Just finished The Land of Spices ... ... works (Norwegian, 15 volumes), so I assume I'll read much Steinbeck for some time.
#5, chrine
If you're going to read The Pearl or The Red Pony I'd appreciate if you could tell what you think of it (them).
... going, and Runaway by Alice Munro, a collection of short stories. I should finish Runaway this week. I plan on starting The Pearl or The Red Pony, both Steinbeck, after that. ... detailed description propels the story forward? I do like detailed description. I have erotica in my collection. I have The Pearl. The thought was first that SEX was getting too much play these days an why was that, so we started talking it through.
I think that the Vampire Genre, which ... ... by Edith Wharton (Pulitzer Challenge)
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (RGG side read)
The Pearl by John Steinbeck (RGG side read)
I will finish reading Forbidden Bread as well. I'm also making my way through The Atlantic's 2009 Fiction Issue ... ... pile includes: Runaway, Girl with a Pearl Earring, A Wedding in December, The Age of Innocence, The Red Pony, and The Pearl. ... Neale Hurston
141. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
142. The Short Reigh of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
143. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Whew!~! With that one I finish my 999 challenge that I started in May and bumped my challenge up to 200 books. Wish me luck.
144. Th ... #209: The Pearl is another excellent one. Sad, but a very interesting commentary on families, prejudice, greed and a host of other endearing human qualities! ... Kaysen
73. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
74. The Woman Who Rides Like a Man by Tamora Pierce
75. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
76. The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
77. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (audio)
78. Lioness Rampant by Tamora Pierce
79. A ... ... in class.
I was struck by how much I agreed with Smiley's post on various books in #195, except that I haven't read The Pearl, and I have re-read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings more than once (although there is some boring walking, walking with Frodo and Sam that goes on, and probably other ... ... propelled by the popularity of Sparrow.
Dracula-Loved it. Hooked in high school. That's saying something.
The Pearl-I had to read it in high school and burst out with spontaneous laughter @ the ending. I don't think that is was Steinbeck was shooting for.
I don't think I ... Now I have read The Pearl and I actually remember having read it years ago, probably in high school and thus ends my Classics category for the challenge.
I will now get to Heir of Sea and Fire and The Inner Reaches of Outer Space From my schooling days, one book I didn't enjoy was The Pearl by Steinbeck. I found no interest in it. Almost finished with Confederates in the Attic and Star Wars Outcast, then I'll finally get to The Pearl and Heir of Sea and Fire - that is unless the library calls and says another book I have on hold has come in and I have three out there due to me. We had to read The pearl in Grade 8, but I don't remember too much about it. Just started Confederates in the Attic and that'll finish up the Civil War category. Decided to then read The Pearl to finish up my classics category and Heir of Fire and Sea as my penultimate selection for my fantasy category - the last book in this trilogy will be the final for that ... ... ies 4
Hoyt, Elizabeth (R) To Seduce a Sinner 3.5
Mortenson, Greg (NonFic) Three Cups of Tea 3
Steinbeck, John (fic) The Pearl 3
Strasser, Todd (fic) The Wave 3.5
... wouldn't have to have luck or unlucky in the title, they could contain and "unlucky" item in the title, like Steinbeck's The Pearl, or Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler or Black Cat Manga by Kentaro Yabuki. I haven't read any of these, I just thought it was a nice variety of reading. :) The lat few days, I read a few quick books - The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, The Pearl, and Hatter M.
I'm still working on David Copperfield. It will be some time before I'm finished (only about 1/3 of the way in), but I'm enjoying the story so far and the characters are fabulous.
I ... 75. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
From page one, the reader is clearly told that this is a fable in which "there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere." In this parable, Kino lives with his wife Juana and son, Coyotito, living ... 72. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Category: Lost Book Club
From page one, the reader is clearly told that this is a fable in which "there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere." In this parable, Kino lives with his ... ... Host - Stephenie Meyer. An exquisite treatment and different view of the old "invasion of the body-snatchers" idea.
52. The Pearl - John Steinbeck. A very good (composition and theme) look at the impact that a little unexpected wealth can have on a family and community. Sad, but good.
53. S ... So far this month I've read Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk and Dogrun by Aurthor Nersesian. I started The Pearl yesterday. I love flying because I get so much reading done! ... veraux
A Thousand Words for Stranger -- by Julie E. Czerneda
Two more books that I'm adding Monday morning are:
The Pearl & The Red Pony (two books in one) -- by John Steinbeck
Never Cry Wolf -- by Farley Mowat
My whole inventory is at:
http://bookmooch.com/m/inventor ... ... radbury
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Holes by Louis Sachar
Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare and
The Pearl by John Steinbeck ...
5. Of Mice and Men
6. Burning Bright --wrong touchstone--
7. The Red Pony
8. The Short Reign of Pippin IV
9. The Pearl
The 9th category to complete. Whew!~! 4 months. Not too shabby. The Pearl by John Steinbeck. It just rips my heart out. Good to know Ron. ;)
Edited because I am stupid. Steinbeck was difficult in high school, but since then I have gone back to him and find some of his stuff wonderful (not The Pearl).
There are so many things I want to read, but the large tomes are the ones I find weigh on my mind. Remeberance of Things Past, War and Peace, The Bible, ... ... beyond the continuum (wherever that ends?!). They believe that should someone publish a copy of, say, John Steinbeck's The Pearl (roughly 50 pages) bound together with 2000 pages of commentary and critical analysis (* Rule42 adopts his best Judy Tenuta voice * it could happen!) it ... 71 The Pearl - 7/7/09
72 Heir of Sea and Fire - 7/9/09
73 Gods of Night - 7/10/09 - here but not in 999
74 Inner Reaches of Outer Space - 7/12/09
75 Harpist in the Wind - 7/13/09
76 The Sparrow - 7/17/09
77 Champagne Cocktails by Anistatia Miller - 7/15/09 - here but not in 999
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5. The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg (Category: Book with a pie on the cover)
6. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (Category: Book about a jewel)
7. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman (Category: Book that contains more than 25 ... ... Seduction of an Unknown Lady by Samantha James SEPT 12 
25. The Pearl by John Steinbeck (RGG SR) SEPT 20
26. The Seduction of an English Scoundrel by Jillian Hunter ... 6) The Pearl by John Steinbeck
This is only the second Steinbeck novel I've read, having just finished Of Mice and Men a week or two ago. I didn't like The Pearl as much, but it was good. It felt a little too much like the author was trying to cram his message down ...
... Next in First Among Sequels -- from C9
The Red Pony -- from C1
The Seduction of an Unknown Lady -- from C9
The Pearl -- from C5
The Seduction of an English Scoundrel -- from C9
The Magnificent Ambersons -- from C3
This category includes historical fiction and fiction ... Category 5: Little Black Dress
1. The Pearl by John Steinbeck RGG SR (C1, C6)
2. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy RGG SR (Moved from C1. Maybe C6)
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5. ... ... Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein 
Possible Inclusions:
The Pearl -- from C5
Katherine -- moved to C6
All the Pretty Horses SR -- moved to C5
This category includes the monthly Someday I'll Read selection and any ... Classics Everyone Seems To Have Read But Me
1. The Pearl by John Steinbeck, 3.5 stars
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12/07/08
The Train Was on Time
by Heinrich Böll
12/08/08
A Pale View of Hills
by Kazuo Ishiguro
12/08/08
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
12/09/08 ... ce,
Despite the fact that I liked The Grapes of Wrath and a few other Steinbecks, the first time I was assigned to read The Pearl I busted out laughing @ the end. It was too over the top. I just finished The Pearl by John Steinbeck and now have started A Death In Belmont by Sebastian Junger. ... - 3/23/09
6 The Mayor of Casterbridge - 5/28/09
7 The Sound and the Fury - 6/5/09
8 Jane Eyre - 6/28/09
9 The Pearl - 7/7/09
Today I received, via BookMooch:
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
and 2 British anthologies of Middle Ages & Early Modern literature for an angel mooch. ... de Saint-Exupery
6. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
7. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
8. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
9. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
CATEGOR ... ... you got me intrigued!) that I forgot to confess the transgressions that being in the library inevitably portends:
The Pearl by John Steinbeck--I don't recall reading this one. For a dime, who cares anyway?!
The Wedding: An Encounter with Jan van Eyck by Elizabeth M. Rees ... ... Modern English Usage Dictionary by H. W. Fowler
Chaucer: Sources and Background by Robert P. Miller
Pearl by E. V. Gordon
The Odyssey of Homer by Homer
Cambridge Latin Course Unit 2 Student Text North American edition by North American Cambridge Class ... ... dnapped
Island of the Blue Dolphins
The Old Man and the Sea
Kon Tiki
Robinson Crusoe
A High Wind in Jamaica
The Pearl
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
John Dollar. I highly recommend this book.
I've probably read a few other works as well. I just don't get into the ... I was not interested in The Pearl, but the book/play I really did not like in MS/HS was Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The lack of action and the sense of going nowhere really bugged me. On the other hand, that's kind of what the play was about.
Re: raising HS students' interest in reading: Hav ... ... LT and realised I've read that one. Great book. I must go for the short ones, as the next of his I'll be reading soon is The Pearl. :-) ...
Youth by J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe
The Pearl by John Steinbeck ... trouble remembering them all now. This is a short list: Romeo and Juliet, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Pearl, The Scarlet Letter, The Once and Future King, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, Native Son, Hamlet, The Kitchen God's Wife, and Invisible Man ... ... homeschool that year, they obliged, and my mother bought me Silas Marner, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jungle Book,The Pearl, and a bunch of others. That's where my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began. Also I was fascinated by the words in Silas Marner. I thought they sounded like
" ... ... short reads:
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louise Stevenson
The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and others by John Steinbeck
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Some longer reads, for a free day: ... ... uch?
Also, I'm not too fond of Dan Brown.
Oh, John Steinbeck, too. After a secondary school course full of his stuff (The Pearl in middle school, The Grapes of Wrath in high school - the most books in the system by any author), I never want to read his works again. Ever. ... ngland)
Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore (Victorian England)
Music and Silence by Rose Tremain (17th century Denmark)
The Moon Pearl by Ruth Lum McCumm (early 19th century China)
There are so many possibilities to mention!!! So many good historical novels written by women.
Rubyfruit Jungle Rita May Brown
The Pearl John Steinbeck
The man with the golden gun Ian Fleming
The turquoise trail Gwen Bristow
Forever Amber Kathleen Winsor
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading
Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques
The Good Earth by PEARL S. Buck
Knitticisms . . . And Purls of Wisdom by Kari A. Cornell I read The Pearl by Steinbeck and swore never again! *shudders remembering the book* ... Affair by Jasper Fforde
The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
Not to mention short story collections....
... ... but it seems to have disappeared, along with the Edgar Allan Poe and H G Wells omnibuses. I can't say I remember reading The Pearl either, only Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. So now I'll be on the look out. Cheers! Steinbeck's The Pearl -- one I missed in high school when it seems everyone else has read it, or I don't remember at all, although I doubt that since Cannery Row has been one of my all-time favorites since around that time...
anyway, knew it would have a darker theme, such as the evils of ... 31. The Pearl by John Steinbeck ... Edgar Allen Poe were two of the first books that I read on my own, and my love of reading was born from reading them.
The Pearl by Steinbeck have a special place in my heart, because it was my introduction into critical reading, and, in turn, was the first book I read with my fifteen-year-o ... ... pp)... ...31b. Dream Lucky (Early Review/history, 240 pp)
32a. Only You Can Save Mankind (juv, 207 pp)... ...32b. The Pearl (novella, 87 pp)
33a. Adolf: Days of Infamy (graphic novel, apprx 1200 pp)... ...33b. Thomas Jefferson (biog, 198 pp)
34a. Journal of James Edmund Pea ... ... Nadine Gordimer
Year of Wonders, Geraldine Brooks
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
The Pearl & Tortilla Flat, John Steinbeck
Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
Non-Fiction
Unbowed Wangari Maathai
A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehi ... I really disliked The Pearl and Of Mice and Men, and I've always thought it was a shame that schools like to use these books -- probably just because they're short -- to introduce Steinbeck. Later, on my own (but still in high school) I read and really liked Cannery Row, The Grapes of Wrath ... Teachers are overly fond of Steinbeck, aren't they? I've been forced to read The Pearl, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath. Of all of these, I only liked the last one, though I couldn't tell you why. ... Junior League
3. Persuasion
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
5. Pride and Prejudice
and
6. Emma
7. The Pearl
Edited for better organization. Just finished The Pearl. Sad.
Started and read the introduction and the first 3 chapters of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for my book club.
I think I'll start Persuasion as well. I need something where good people end up happy and in love. 77 & 80 - I knew that it sounded familiar! I just couldn't place the line. It was many many moons ago that I read The Pearl >77: The Pearl, John Steinbeck.
"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born." At first I could only think of cultured pearls, hence The Pearl by John Steinbeck.
Then Message 12 reminded me of The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch. ... sort of reasonable expectations I might have had about dating, love and marriage.
I'm going to start Steinbeck's The Pearl. I might have to give it up for a while. I should start The hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy for The Belles' book club soon. The Pearl by John Steinbeck. That is quite possibly my all time most hated book I have ever had the displeasure to read! But to be fair I will continue to think about this and comment again later after the nasty mental taste of that book has dissipated once again 8) 61. The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Wonderful parable that was reminiscent of the power of the ring in Lord of the Rings; how possession of potential wealth and power can change a person. Beautiful little book. Finished The Muse Asylum and was underwhelmed. Now a quick read of The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Getting those eleventh hour numbers up for my book challenge! ... Tortilla Flat. As long as I'm on the coast, maybe I'll check out The Log From the Sea of Cortez for tips on finding The Pearl. Then I want to head inland to The Long Valley to engage In Dubious Battle with The Harvest Gypsies over The Grapes of Wrath. If I survive, when The Moo ... High School was a long time ago, but I remember having to read To Kill a Mockingbird, Things Fall Apart, The Pearl,and pieces of The Iliad and The Odyssey, plus a lot of short fiction like The Rocking Horse Winner. I actually remember the Jr high list better : The Red Badge of Courage ... If you only read one John Steinbeck book it should be East of Eden. The book is a retelling of the Cain and able story from the Bible. Starts in the civil war and ends up in Salinas valley. Steinbeck was not well liked for airing the family laundry
of the area. Chalk me up as another one who didn't like The Pearl when I read it for school. I'm from Salinas, so I can understand why they assigned it, however.
I haven't read any of these, but I have seen the play adaptation of East of Eden. marise,
I had to read the The Pearl also with the same results and read the same book to like him.
Maybe those teachers were planting seeds that they knew would germinate in later years. I'm inclined to give them the benifit of the doubt.
I, too had to read The Old Man and the Sea at that age and it turned me off of him for many years as well. Same with The Pearl for Steinbeck until I read East of Eden. Why did they pick those stories for children of that age to read?? Did they want to turn us off of good lit?? :) ... until I read Delilah by Marcus Goodrich who was married to Olivia de Havilland
at one time.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck which is my favorite book by him. It's the one he wanted to write and should have won another pulitzer for it.
1953 Pulitzer forThe Old Man and the Sea ... ... I'm currently reading East of Eden I'm a little more than 1/3 of the way thruogh it. It's really interesting. I've read The Pearl and Of Mice and Men but this is my first big Steinbeck undertaking.
>96: alcottacre
I'd love to hear what you think of The Yiddish Policemen's Union I ... Number 50!!!!
The Pearl-John Steinbeck
I read this the first time when I was nine, and wanted to see if it was as good as I remembered. It was.
 < ... ... lit classes. It would be more appropriate for grade- or middle-schoolers, in my opinion.
I have to admit I did like The Pearl, although it's definitely not my favorite Steinbeck.
How about The House on Mango Street? Awful, awful, awful. A pretentious prose poem. fikustree -
Why did you hate The Pearl? I remember it being quite good! ... I also didn't care for Catcher in the Rye although at least it was a quick read.
I am so excited that many mentioned The Pearl I forgot how much I truly hated that book. My friends and I wrote a sequel called Coyotito's revenge. I don't remember the details but I know we were still making ... Nichtglied,
I was thinking the same thing. Except I would replace The Pearl and The Red Pony with those two. I count myself fortunate in that Tortilla Flat was my introduction to Steinbeck, after that I read everything by him I could get my hands on.
A couple others by him that ... ... entirely if I could. I can't believe how many times I had to read him in school, starting in junior high school:
The Pearl (meh)
The Red Pony (ugh!)
Of Mice and Men (sigh)
The Grapes of Wrath (uh, actually kind of liked this one)
Four books. With so many "classic" authors ... the pearl by john steinbeck
the glass bead game by herman hesse
diamond in the rough by patricia waddell
the sapphire rose by david eddings
ruby by v.c. andrews The Amber Room by Steve Berry
Plum Wine by Angela David-Gardner
Pearl by Mary Gordon
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The War of the Roses by Warren Adler ... the Catholic summer reading list).
I don't know if it is considered a classic, but I found The Hobbit more boring than The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Diary of Anne Frank. I didn't like The Old Man and the Sea when I read it in high school, but re-read it recently and liked it. I liked The Pearl too, but I'm one of the few who likes Steinbeck.
I liked Ethan Frome (when I was a teenager) but I found it more of a horror novel - that's why I liked it. The ... ... think Ethan Frome was some English teacher's idea of a joke. I mean, Edith Wharton has written so much better.
And The Pearl. How can I forget that monstrosity? That is the one book that I not only told my brother it was ok for him to find the Cliff Notes, I actually printed them out ... ... not required to read them in school, I picked them up on my own. Cannery Row was also pretty good. My oldest just read The Pearl in 8th grade and he enjoyed it - wasn't his favorite but he didn't mind it as much as a few of their other selections this year.
I also read The Once and Futur ... I think Wuthering Heights is the non-Steinbeck classic that I despise the most. Granted I had Of Mice and Men and The Pearl shoved down my throat in high school and very few books survived that treatment with me, but Wuthering Heights...there was no excuse. I was reading it during a ... ... almost all the books I've ever really disliked (a long list, at the top of which would be Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Pearl, and Crime and Punishment), but it appears my most hated book of all time has gone unmentioned. It's A Death in the Family by James Agee - I hope I'm not ... ... I actually did like it. But only that one, all other Steinbeck can rot. Yeah, that means you, Of Mice and Men, and The Pearl, and what was that other one? The Red Pony? Yeah, hated it.
... the memory card in my brain where my HS reading list was stored. LOL
I know Nectar in a Sieve, Travels with Charlie, The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, and The Lord of the Flies were on the list. ... Irvine Welsh and others, but I think it's a lazy, uninspired and uninteresting piece of writing.
3. Steinbeck - The Pearl - I taught this to two of my English classes last year and they let me know what THEY thought of it... In retrospect some nice writing (of course) and good ... srharris19 I must agree with you! The year I had to read Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, Steinbeck's The Pearl and Shane by Jack Shaefer was the worst. To me they will always be 3 of the most boring books ever. I have read alot of books and enjoy many classics but I will never ... ... like a lot of Hemingway but the Old Man and the Sea is pretty bad. In the same mythic vein, however, Steinbeck's The Pearl is WAY worse!
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