I’m reading East of Eden for the 3rd time. Anyone else love the classics ❤️?
I’m reading East of Eden for the 3rd time. Anyone else love the classics ❤️?
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I’m reading East of Eden for the 3rd time. Anyone else love the classics ❤️?
For a long time classics were the only books I would read lol just recently started branching out more…Little Women and anything by Jane Austen is ??
Reading it for the first time
East of Eden is my favorite book. I went so far with Steinbeck that I visited the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas and took this picture of the box that East of Eden was delivered to his publisher in (Hebrew for timshel): https://www.flickr.com/photos/erocsid/27482677341/in/photolist-H4aH92-HSxVdp-HSxUuv
It’s my second favorite book I’ve ever read ❤️
What is the first?
@Gyöngyi Jane Eyre
These are my favourites too – among others. 🙂
One of my favorite books. I learned a lot about truth.
Loved that one!
I have a classics collection in my shelves… my favourite I’ve read is ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde.
Oh, haven’t read that one yet ?
Creepy! I was seriously reading between my fingers at one point!
I’ve read East of Eden several times. I’m not a huge Steinbeck fan. I found it more relatable as an adult than when I studied Steinbeck’s works as a student and more enjoyable still when I read it while living in California not too far from its setting. I don’t care for Steinbeck’s portrayal of women in general.
This is one of my all time favorites.
One of Steinbeck’s best.
I love it, read it at least 3 maybe 4 times
Can you imagine California back then.
Love the classics! My all time favorite is Count of Monte Cristo. It speaks to the basic human conditions- love, betrayal, anger, greed, jealousy, revenge, forgiveness. I used to stay up late into the night reading it when I was in H.S.
Count of Monte Cristo is the ONLY book I listen to vs reading. I listen while on the treadmill every morning. When the book is finished, I start over….learn something new every time!
@Sharon I never considered listening to it, I will give that a try:)
@Sandra it takes away the tedium of the treadmill…and other chores! ???
That is one of my favorite movies. I haven’t read the book yet. It’s in my kindle collection.
Check out “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters.” This is a diary Steinbeck wrote about writing the novel while working on it. Found it fascinating and it gives insight on the book as well as Steinbeck himself.
I seldom reread books(so many unread books out in the wild!), but I’ve read Anna Karenina and Pride and Prejudice many times.
yes. love steinbeck.
I love the classics. Gatsby is one of my favorites. I haven’t read East of Eden yet but enjoyed Grapes of Wrath.
Love East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath.
Love that book because the mother was actually meaner than my mother. Lol
I loooove the classics.
Love the movie. Never read the book.
One hell of a writer. Steinbeck knows how to tell a story.
I have only read East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath once, but they are so memorable. I don’t re-read much, except for Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D’Urberevilles and Jude the Obscure are 3 reads each. Love those, and other Hardy novels like The Mayor of Casterbridge and Return of the Native.
me
classics, yay!
Love it. You should also read “Journal of a Novel” if you haven’t already – Steinbeck’s journal that he kept during the writing of Eden.
Yes!!!!! They are classics for a reason. Phenom writing