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I had to read this book for a school report. I probably would have enjoyed it more if I didn't have to analyze it every step of the way.
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Avec ce livre, le lecteur a l'impression d'être le troisième passager de Rocinante, aux côtés de John Steinbeck et de Charley. Lecture paisible, agréable, souvent drôle, qui est aussi intéressante et dépaysante (et parfois horrifiante) par le côté "voyage dans le temps"/immersion dans les États-Unis des années 60.
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To anyone who has read and fallen in love with Steinbeck's fiction, but wishes to learn more about Steinbeck as a person: I strongly recommend this book. Having wanted to expand both my knowledge of the writer and the country of which he wrote so often about, I embarked on this journey across America with him. There are so many small hints and large phrases of wisdom, that this adventure could also be used as a book about life's journey. His writing of the regions are so appealing that they make you want to go there, while also being strangely content with the picture that his description gives. Steinbeck does not just write of the country; he writes of the history, the geography, the art of the journey, and the universal people that reside within its borders, all while acknowledging the future hurdles that it must overcome to thrive. A good follow up to Kerouac's classic, written only ten years later.
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This is my first Steinbeck and I loved it. Don’t know if I will read another or not!
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How do you begin to talk about the author whose every word resonates deep within you?
You don’t.
However, as someone who did her share of solo world travelling across countries and continents for seven months, it’s quite simply remarkable that he captures the essence of travelling without a real plan so effortlessly. Observing the highs, the lows, the joys, the despair, the oneness with people, the loneliness of it all and the biggest learning that one sets out travelling hoping to find discover completely new only to realise that that what you discover lies within your own self.
Read this if you love Steinbeck.
Read this if you love to travel.
Read this if you love to question your self.
If none of this lures you.
Read this because of Charley the dog and Rocinante the truck.