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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is a short and enjoyable novel that illustrates the difficulty of the uneducated poor and their attempt to better their lives. It also condemns the harsh brutality of farm owners who cared nothing for the men by whose sweat and blood they obtained and retained the profits from their farms. This novel has a high interest level and low reading level. This is a great book for students in the 8th or 9th grade. The vocabulary level for this book is approximately at a 5th grade level. Many schools (including mine) have this novel as part of the required in our English classes. (  )kthclark | Jul 9, 2009 |   Contrasting characters, George and Lennie share an ideal dream of owning their own farm one day, but until then look for jobs as migrant workers. George is small in stature yet a devoted friend to Lennie, who is a gentle giant. Strong physically, Lennie is mildly mentally disabled and depends on George. When they find work on a farm, things go awry due to weak human nature, a temptress, jealousy and feelings of inadequacy. I read this as an adult, but advise it for high school students. A classic! garrity | Jul 8, 2009 | Beautiful writing and nice pace. The story is tragic, all the more so because the ending seems inevitable. All the way through Mr. Steinbeck foreshadows where this is all going. His characters are real - all their hopes and all their foibles. Worth reading. ( )tjsjohanna | Jul 7, 2009 | http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/1258907... Wow. Just... Wow. This is too short a book to rave about at length. It begins with a dead mouse and ends with a dead man. It has tremendous characterisation and horrible choices. It has biting but subtle commentary on gender, race and disability. Perhaps the ending is just a bit too inevitable, but it had a tremendous buildup. Superb, and I am amazed that I had never thought to read this before. (  )nwhyte | Jul 1, 2009 | Per minute of reading time, this short novella packs more friendship, pathos, tragedy and myriad other human emotions in it’s predominantly dialogue driven pages than anything I have read. At 43 I have read this fresh for the first time, just a couple of hours of my time, has left me profoundly moved. Perhaps the death of a dream for one friend, but not for the one lying dead. ( )BookMarkMe | Jun 28, 2009 | 0.057 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
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