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bennettlange 's review for:
Travels with Charley in Search of America
by John Steinbeck
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
slow-paced
Travels with Charley is a fun, lighthearted, easy read that I would recommend to anyone. Steinbeck’s humor shines bright throughout this book, and is something I have missed dearly in his other books; I often found myself laughing out loud to many of his quips about a passerby, his beloved dog, or the scenes around him. Steinbeck discusses how his yearning to travel America is something that has never left him regardless of the excuses (young and dumb, middle aged, facing death, etc) and is something I would imagine most people relate to. His experiences in the end in the Deep South of Louisiana and Alabama, although not quite to the extent that he has, can be seen by my peers if they look closely enough in the recent laws and sentiments of our state government.