2.66k reviews for:

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

3.72 AVERAGE

kenzie_may's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

iamsebas's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: N/A

Loveable characters: Yes

alicixmxrie's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

katjabolstad's review against another edition

2.0

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He was constantly wearing a glove full of Vaseline… for his wife… Who let this book into the curriculum?

tessakotowicz's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Ugh I really love this book. It’s such a classic and is just so painful. George and lennie have a little place in my heart 

syssneck's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

helplesswhilstdrying's review

3.5

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Of Mice and Men is a classic I’ve known in passing, but never read for myself - I was happy when my sister passed this onto me as it would be an easy classic to tick off my en classics list for this year. 

 

George and Lennie have a dream that one day they will own land of their own, in the meantime they travel farm-to-farm, usually after Lennie has outstayed his welcome. Lennie is a big soft man whose temper issues boil over and George acts as his protector as he knows Lennie does nothing out of spite. 

 

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, my main critique would be for a book that’s so short - I founds some parts of it a little repetitive, but if I was getting my English Lit analysis on, maybe that was the point, George had justified Lennie’s actions for so long that his comments about Lennie had become a script. 

 

4 out of 10 classics now ticked off for 2025. 

tisner1's review against another edition

4.5

reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mayhernandez's review against another edition

3.75

emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mellanger21's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes