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bekahwright 's review for:
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck is a good story teller. The narrator on the audiobook was fantastic.
East of Eden is well written, and at times profound, but the content is why I don't like it. It's dark, and draws up the feelings that the world is just evil, that people are horrible. Most of the comments I've read focus on the evil of Kate, but the flagrant inhuman treatment of women, the xenophobia, the racism, the language, makes it so much worse. I know it's a book for it's time, and I kept at this insanely long, depressing book because it's like a train wreck, hard to turn away from. The book is about prostitution, jealousy, mistreatment of one another, with no redemption; no lessons. I gave up hope of any decency when Lee told the story of his birth, at that point of the book I was waiting for it to be over.
Is this what was in the heads of the men the generation before me? Was this their experience of the world? Is this what they read for entertainment?
East of Eden is well written, and at times profound, but the content is why I don't like it. It's dark, and draws up the feelings that the world is just evil, that people are horrible. Most of the comments I've read focus on the evil of Kate, but the flagrant inhuman treatment of women, the xenophobia, the racism, the language, makes it so much worse. I know it's a book for it's time, and I kept at this insanely long, depressing book because it's like a train wreck, hard to turn away from. The book is about prostitution, jealousy, mistreatment of one another, with no redemption; no lessons. I gave up hope of any decency when Lee told the story of his birth, at that point of the book I was waiting for it to be over.
Is this what was in the heads of the men the generation before me? Was this their experience of the world? Is this what they read for entertainment?