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Quote from: Sandstone Outcropping on July 15, 2025, 11:25:15 AMQuote from: DQ12 on July 15, 2025, 08:01:29 AMAbout to continue my YEAR OF STEINBECK with Cannery Row.Nice. Which other ones have you read in 2025?East of Eden; Grapes of Wrath; Mice and Men
Quote from: DQ12 on July 15, 2025, 08:01:29 AMAbout to continue my YEAR OF STEINBECK with Cannery Row.Nice. Which other ones have you read in 2025?
About to continue my YEAR OF STEINBECK with Cannery Row.
I just started East of Eden based off this thread. I read grapes of wrath a while back and enjoyed that so hopefully east of Eden delivers!
HOLY crap
Quote from: mocat on July 22, 2025, 05:09:23 PMHOLY crapi think of that potato/tomato europe tweet all the time and both of those being imported from NA is pretty mind blowing.
I have a similar albeit much more chronologically condensed relationship with Blood Meridian, but for different reasons. BM is just so unrelentingly dark and monotonous, so I have to step back for a while. But then the writing is just so perfect.QuoteIt makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. May as well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was, and will be. That way, and not some other way.
It makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. May as well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was, and will be. That way, and not some other way.
Quote from: star seed 7 on July 22, 2025, 05:10:54 PMQuote from: mocat on July 22, 2025, 05:09:23 PMHOLY crapi think of that potato/tomato europe tweet all the time and both of those being imported from NA is pretty mind blowing.Quote from: mocat on April 17, 2025, 10:33:42 AMI have a similar albeit much more chronologically condensed relationship with Blood Meridian, but for different reasons. BM is just so unrelentingly dark and monotonous, so I have to step back for a while. But then the writing is just so perfect.QuoteIt makes no difference what men think of war. War endures. May as well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way it was, and will be. That way, and not some other way.
