Grapes of Wrath- Would I Recommend this Book

No, I would not recommend this book to anyone on the simple account that I did not enjoy it. I am not trying to ruin any intentions someone else might have had to read the book, but for your sake it is not worth it. To me the book was a huge descriptive novel and nothing but that. As I have said before I think the thing that made the book bad for me and no fun to read is the constant describing of what is going on.

There is a line that is crossed when an author goes out of his way to describe what it was like for Ma to sleep with the corps of her husbands mother or what it was like drugging Grampa Joad. Im not saying that it was incorrect doing this and mentioning it in the book, but you don't have to take up a paragraph or a page doing so. All it requires is one sentence and then talking about stubborn old Grampa or about more packing that had to be done. When you spend one paragraph writing about the drugging and another writing about stubborn grampa, thats when excessive description comes into play.

I know that John Steinbeck worked really hard on this book and I'm not trying to crush his little heart. Mostly because I'm pretty sure he will never read this, and second he makes more money each day selling this book than I do in a month. I have a feeling though that someone else thinks the same thing I do. If he would have cut down that book by a hundred pages that would have been a really good novel because it would have been the correct length and it wouldn't have bore the reader like crazy. In the end, although I didn't enjoy it, I am happy and proud to say that I have read this book because I have a feeling it will come in to play sometime later on in life even if that means when my kids are in high school and have to read it.

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