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maddiebusick's review
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Medical content, Classism, Animal cruelty, Violence, Animal death, Alcohol, Racism, and Death
Minor: Drug use
abominablesnowaro's review against another edition
dark
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Messy, sad, chaotic, funny, earnest, cruel, and kind. Maybe not a perfect book, but unquestionably human.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Medical content, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
kari_f's review
slow-paced
4.0
Steinbeck has a way of making a place seem idyllic and wistful, even when tragic events take place there. His use of sensory language and imagery paint vivid pictures of his settings, and when that setting is coastal California, the reader can’t help but fall in love with the area. This makes sense, given that Steinbeck wrote the book as a nostalgic and amusing set of tales for soldiers who didn’t want to read another war story.
More character-driven than plot-driven, the reader gets to experience life in this humble place, getting to know a variety of the people who live and/or work there. There is beauty in the mundane, and the reader bears witness to the quiet dignity, the everyday hilarity, and the lonely melancholy each character experiences. In a metaphorical way, the book examines the richness of life in an environment of poverty. There are themes of loneliness and loyalty, resourcefulness and looking to nature and others to meet needs, poverty and opportunity. It’s a sad, beautiful, wistful, and funny little story about a sad, beautiful, wistful, and funny little town.
More character-driven than plot-driven, the reader gets to experience life in this humble place, getting to know a variety of the people who live and/or work there. There is beauty in the mundane, and the reader bears witness to the quiet dignity, the everyday hilarity, and the lonely melancholy each character experiences. In a metaphorical way, the book examines the richness of life in an environment of poverty. There are themes of loneliness and loyalty, resourcefulness and looking to nature and others to meet needs, poverty and opportunity. It’s a sad, beautiful, wistful, and funny little story about a sad, beautiful, wistful, and funny little town.
Content Warnings
Minor: Suicide
kommatator's review against another edition
emotional
funny
slow-paced
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying, Death, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Ableism
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