From: spike66 (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Thu Mar 07 2002 - 20:01:33 MST
E. Shaun Russell wrote:
>> Thanks scerir, I loooove John Steinbeck! ...spike
>
> Hey, I've always been a Steinbeck fan too! I particularly enjoyed
> both his "paisano" novellas, _Tortilla Flat_ and _Cannery Row_...
And Sweet Thursday. Sweet Thursday is the best of the Trilogy.
> In all seriousness though, I have heard numerous attacks on Steinbeck
> by the alleged literary intellectuals for being "too flowery" and not
> being apropos with his style.
Well, those literary agents can go to HELL! Thats the joke, in the
Cannery Row trilogy, that the bums were so proper and spoke
such high Spanish. It was hilarious irony.
Steinbeck's work lent dignity to the very poor. In Grapes of Wrath,
the Joads were just the kind of people you would want on your side in
times of adversity. They were smart, hard working, they never gave
up. I found it a tremendously moving story, probably his second
best novel.
> Personally, I find his writing to be very fluid and natural, as if
> he is observing things as they are, with just the slightest glint of
> amusement in his eye. It reminds me of Auden's poetry.
Ja. What I would like to see is sci-fi written with the some of the
emotional impact that Steinbeck somehow managed to put into his
work. Card's Enders Game goes part way down that road, but I
would consider it only mediocre as a sci-fi story.
Somebody point me to sci-fi with real FEELING. spike
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