Steinbeck's finest work

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	• In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics) John Steinbeck Penguin Classics, 2006 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Top Class Steinbeck

This is one of those books that changes the way you see the world.

I've read a few of Steinbeck's books, including the big ones and some of the smaller ones.

In Dubious Battle is just as excellent as Grapes of Wrath, only in a smaller way. After I finished this book, I sat and thought for a long time, unable to get it out of my mind.

This is not to be missed. Entertaining and thought provoking.

"Man hates himself"

When I read a novel I never over analyze it or try to read between the lines or ponder the symbolism of different objects, I just read the book and try to enjoy the story. The main reason is because my brain is the size of a Fig Newton (but chewier) and also because I really don't care. I read for enjoyment not to blow an o-ring agonizing about the philosophical conclusion of the whole thing.

That bit of useless ranting over, I really enjoyed this book. Steinbeck has such a seemingly effortless way of making everyday events so exciting and touching to read about.

Mac and Jim are two Communists who get jobs as apple pickers then quickly earn some of the work leaders trust and start edging the already angry workers toward a Valley wide strike.

That's really about it, but as with everything I've read by Steinbeck it has a profound feeling of humanity and beauty that I can't explain.

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Steinbeck's finest work

It is one book i read over and over. This and the Grapes of wrath should be must reading in High schools. (however the way this contry is being attacked by our home grown anti-intellectual fundamentalists I fear this won't happen anytime soon)

Great Steinbeck

I am a huge Steinbeck fan, and have always been. There are a some of his works that I appreciate more than others. Steinbeck captures the heart and the soul of the poverty stricken, the worker bees that keep the social wheels turning. He knows their mind and their emotions like he has been there with them and he believes what they have to say is of value. He brings a warmth and almost acceptance to the idea of being a Communist in America.

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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again.

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