

Not bored, but not far off it either.īut there’s some good stuff here, too. I think that might be the problem that I had here – there was too much slice of life stuff, and that kind of left me feeling indifferent. One of the interesting things about Steinbeck is that I enjoy the way that he handles slice of life stuff, and this whole novel is packed with that. I didn’t exactly not enjoy it, but I also didn’t find myself looking forward to picking it up, either.

In fact, I ended up moving it over to become a bedtime book, mainly because it’s a long old read with tiny print. I’m a John Steinbeck fan, having read about half a dozen of his books now, but this one was probably my least favourite.
