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A review by departingin5mins
Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck
5.0
Summer road trip books are always fun and, since we were on a road trip in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, I decided to listen to Travels with Charley (published in 1962) as I read Paul Theroux’s Deep South, published in 2015.
While Paul Theroux drove down south with his William Faulkner and Carson McCullers books, John Steinbeck set out to see how his country had changed. During his visit to his hometown of Monterey, California, he realized how his memory of Monterey was of a town that no longer existed.
What I loved about this book wasn’t the travel, it was John Steinbeck’s reflection that his idea of the country wasn’t relevant anymore. Life goes on without you. It happens to all of us. What I think about today’s society and culture is really better left to much younger generations. Your politics can’t stop the march of time. Time moves us the world forward, with or without our approval. I’ve learned to accept the ideas of younger generations, whether I like them or not. They’re the future, not me.
While Paul Theroux drove down south with his William Faulkner and Carson McCullers books, John Steinbeck set out to see how his country had changed. During his visit to his hometown of Monterey, California, he realized how his memory of Monterey was of a town that no longer existed.
What I loved about this book wasn’t the travel, it was John Steinbeck’s reflection that his idea of the country wasn’t relevant anymore. Life goes on without you. It happens to all of us. What I think about today’s society and culture is really better left to much younger generations. Your politics can’t stop the march of time. Time moves us the world forward, with or without our approval. I’ve learned to accept the ideas of younger generations, whether I like them or not. They’re the future, not me.