Grapes of Wrath- dislike

During The Grapes of Wrath there were the occasional chapters that I thought were interesting, but overall it really wasn't that great. I thought that the author used too much description and detail, by dragging out a idea that could be represented in a couple paragraphs into a chapter. I feel there is a fine line between good description and excessive description.

During the story, it was all cut and dry and I didn't enjoy reading it. I think that this is because it didn't strike a large interest in me because there wasn't a great backbone to it. I felt like the book was just explaining the people's lives along the journey and I never really felt a connection and a motivation to want to keep reading. After I got into the book for a while it was occasionally funny or had a good chapter here and there, but I never really noticed the overall plot of the book and it never really connected or clicked in my brain. I always struggled to understand what was going on mostly because I didn't want to pay attention. Another one of the big problems was how long the book was. I have noticed that the longer the book I have to read the more I dread to get through it and the more I put it off. I was hoping though that once I started it it would be an easy read, but i never really got a connection with the point that the author was trying to get across. The story to me was a bunch of words on pages talking about the lives of people. The worst part was it talked about the lives of people that didn't even succeed in finding work in California.

I'm not trying to say that the choice of read was bad because I'm sure it will be useful in my lifetime, but to me it wasn't very exciting and was pretty boring. If I didn't have to read it for English class I don't think I would have made it more than thirty pages in. I definitely enjoyed Old Man and the Sea more

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.