What do you guys think of Grape of Wrath? I thought it was pretty neat, ending was a little boring tho
one of the worst posts I've ever seen here.
haha ya
>>8078244
Needs more grapes and less wrath.
just finished the red pony and it was pretty underwhelming, should i bother with steinbeck or is he a hack?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nmfJzRQioXk#t=107
>>8078369
Read East of Eden or Grapes of Wrath.
>>8078244
Ending is actually quite good. It resembles the spirit of the book.
>>8078369
Steinbeck was a middlebrow author for the masses. The Franzen of his time.
>>8078417
What would you consider highbrow?
>>8078426
Joyce, Proust, Nabokov, etc.
>>8078459
>Joyce
nonsense isn't highbrow
>>8078417
I hate people like you so fucking much
>>8079696
>he's still as popular with literary critics as he is with the unwashed masses you decry.
Utter horseshit. His Nobel win was a huge scandal in the literary world.
>>8079715
People who actually know what they're talking about?
>>8079731
Middlebrow is a spook used by elitists to justify their poor taste.
>>8078244
Liked it. Tom Joad's speech on the soul was pretty amazing.
>>8078369
Red Pony is the weakest of his works I've read. If you want to give him another shot, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday are neat and rather short.
>>8078417
>he doesn't even grasp that middlebrow refers to certain readers rather than books
Fucked that up entirely huh, you massive fucking idiot.
>>8079744
I'm just reporting the facts. Steinbeck is considered a popular writer, not a literary writer.
>>8079760
These definitions are not mutually exclusive, you poor dejected fool.
>>8079757
Steinbeck is well-known to be a middlebrow writer - you drooling imbecile. The way you're embarrassing yourself is truly painful to watch.
>>8079790
Indubitably good sir! Indeed, you sure showed that rancid swine, that pompous anti-intellectualist, that drooling imbecile as you so aptly put it yourself good sir, what it means to challenge the higher-browed intellectual caste to which such fine gentlemen such as ourselves belong.
To perceive the elegance of your fine reply truly is as pleasurable as the sensation of a velvet fedora upon my very high brow. Bravo good sir, bravo!
The ending of TGOW is fucking bizarre, is what it is.
Steinbeck is a great American writer, but /lit/ doesn't congratulate themselves for having read him the way they have to do for an author to be a favorite here.
>>8079790
I'm embarrassed for you that you haven't hung yourself yet
>>8079725
because he wasnt relevant at the time. if he had won a right after he wrote east of eden or grapes of wrath there wouldnt have been controversy.
Fun fact: grapes of wrath made me quit vegetarianism after 7 years.
I was constantly hungry and all that talk about stew really put me over the edge.
>>8082004
Did you notice the IQ buff and stopped feeling cold all the time?
>>8080259
It's because all his books are what we pretended to read in jr. high. At least in America.
I'm actually thinking about "re"reading them.
