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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
Delving back into Steinbeck?
I don't know, but this book didn't connect with me the way I expected it to, which is perhaps my fault. I suppose it's likened to the way that Steinbeck felt about this trip he set out on. It's not bad and sections are truly very interesting. I'm sure I could look at the memoir as a look into the toil that the road had on him, and thus his writing is "real" and "genuine" but I can't help but feel he is so rushed, his thoughts so convoluted, the issues and language nowhere near the level he is usually on. Indeed, many times throughout the recollection he sounds as a grumpy old man, only to later excuse his statements.
Perhaps the book is interesting as a character study of Steinbeck, but as a character study of America and in comparison to lots of his fiction, it just falls flat.
Which isn't to say it's all bad, of course or that any is bad. I just came in with high hopes, but was ultimately underwhelmed.
I don't know, but this book didn't connect with me the way I expected it to, which is perhaps my fault. I suppose it's likened to the way that Steinbeck felt about this trip he set out on. It's not bad and sections are truly very interesting. I'm sure I could look at the memoir as a look into the toil that the road had on him, and thus his writing is "real" and "genuine" but I can't help but feel he is so rushed, his thoughts so convoluted, the issues and language nowhere near the level he is usually on. Indeed, many times throughout the recollection he sounds as a grumpy old man, only to later excuse his statements.
Perhaps the book is interesting as a character study of Steinbeck, but as a character study of America and in comparison to lots of his fiction, it just falls flat.
Which isn't to say it's all bad, of course or that any is bad. I just came in with high hopes, but was ultimately underwhelmed.