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Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics)

By: John Steinbeck
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 0141023570
ISBN-13: 9780141023571
Released: 26 Jan 2006
RRP: £6.99
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School text or bedtime read? - By: aapjebaapje, 19 Jun 2008
I chose to read this to accompany my daughter who is reading this for GCSE. I am sorry to buck the trend but I don't think this is a good short story, novella or novel. It's a good tale but there's not enough characterisation or back history to understand the outcome for Lennie & the rest of the characters. As an exercise in writing with symmetry with themes & leit motifs it's great - so an interesting GCSE text but not reallly a "leisure" read.
Scoring no.6 on America's most contraversial books ever written - By: Mala, 02 Aug 2007
A good read. I particularly liked the chapter in which Steinbeck uses a form of magic realism to portray a rather surreal description Lennie's emotions. A classic indeed.
An absolute classic - buy it ,read it - By: P. G. Harris, 02 Jun 2007
Those boys from Penguin know a thing or two. When they rate a book as a classic, they know what they are doing. I read this book in a morning while on holiday & it is absolutely fantastic. To develop such totallly believable characters, to tell such a touching story, & to explore such universal truths in such a short novel is a major, major achievement. So many contemporary novelists who view producing a doorstop as a virtue could learn so much from the sheer economy, efficiency & effectiveness of the prose in this marvellous book. Go out, buy it, enjoy it, & sob your heart out !
Great Book - By: R. Marchant, 24 May 2006
An extremely short but nevertheless fantastic book. It makes you wonder why so many people are met with a cruel "justice".