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Of Mice and Men (Penguin Red Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 376
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 0141023570
EAN: 9780141023571
ASIN: 0141023570
Publication Date: January 26, 2006
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 School text or bedtime read? June 19, 2008
I chose to read this to accompany my daughter who is reading this for GCSE. I am sorry to buck the trend but I don't think this is a good short story, novella or novel. It's a good tale but there's not enough characterisation or back history to understand the outcome for Lennie and the rest of the characters. As an exercise in writing with symmetry with themes and leit motifs it's great - so an interesting GCSE text but not really a "leisure" read.
Scoring no.6 on America's most contraversial books ever written August 2, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A good read. I particularly liked the chapter in which Steinbeck uses a form of magic realism to portray a rather surreal description Lennie's emotions. A classic indeed.
 An absolute classic - buy it ,read it June 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Those boys from Penguin know a thing or two. When they rate a book as a classic, they know what they are doing. I read this book in a morning while on holiday and it is absolutely fantastic. To develop such totally believable characters, to tell such a touching story, and to explore such universal truths in such a short novel is a major, major achievement. So many contemporary novelists who view producing a doorstop as a virtue could learn so much from the sheer economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the prose in this marvellous book. Go out, buy it, enjoy it, and sob your heart out !
Great Book May 24, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
An extremely short but nevertheless fantastic book. It makes you wonder why so many people are met with a cruel "justice".
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