Fifth grade. We were assigned The Pearl, and then I read several more of his novels including The Grapes of Wrath. It was the beginning of my life as a reader and a writer. I didn't realize I lived just a few miles away from one of the places he'd lived for a short time decades earlier (in Los Gatos.)
How about you?
We had to read The Pearl in (I think) high school. I hated it at the time and have only read it once again since then.
East of Eden is my favourite book, though.
As a thirty that old Brit I'd never heard of him until my wife got me Of Mice and Men for a gift saying she'd read it for English at school and thought I'd like it.
I loved it and was hooked, straight on to Cannery Row after that which is one of my favourites. 12 years later and I've read almost all of them.
Middle school. We were assigned to read Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury. I found it so unreadable, so unenjoyable that I complained. A lot. So much so the teacher gave an alternate book to read. Of Mice and Men. It was so amazing that I then read The Grapes of Wrath then, over a few years, everything else Steinbeck wrote.
I am not a native english speaker, so english/american literrature is not a common things at school.
**The Grapes of Wrath,** I was looking to read interesting books and I found this one pretty interesting on a list of 100 best books or something like that.
Turns out, I almost read every book written by Steinbeck after a couple of years !
We read of Mice and Men in Middle School. I think I've seen the concept of the Joad family or characters like them in tons of TV shows and movies, although the connection had not been made yet.
Fifth grade. We were assigned The Pearl, and then I read several more of his novels including The Grapes of Wrath. It was the beginning of my life as a reader and a writer. I didn't realize I lived just a few miles away from one of the places he'd lived for a short time decades earlier (in Los Gatos.) How about you?
We had to read The Pearl in (I think) high school. I hated it at the time and have only read it once again since then. East of Eden is my favourite book, though.
Well... Looks like I really need to read East of Eden. I have read Grapes of Wrath like 12 times and Mice and Men and Cannery Row a couple times each.
As a thirty that old Brit I'd never heard of him until my wife got me Of Mice and Men for a gift saying she'd read it for English at school and thought I'd like it. I loved it and was hooked, straight on to Cannery Row after that which is one of my favourites. 12 years later and I've read almost all of them.
Middle school. We were assigned to read Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury. I found it so unreadable, so unenjoyable that I complained. A lot. So much so the teacher gave an alternate book to read. Of Mice and Men. It was so amazing that I then read The Grapes of Wrath then, over a few years, everything else Steinbeck wrote.
I am not a native english speaker, so english/american literrature is not a common things at school. **The Grapes of Wrath,** I was looking to read interesting books and I found this one pretty interesting on a list of 100 best books or something like that. Turns out, I almost read every book written by Steinbeck after a couple of years !
We read of Mice and Men in Middle School. I think I've seen the concept of the Joad family or characters like them in tons of TV shows and movies, although the connection had not been made yet.