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tauntonlake t1_jaw6lis wrote

Steinbeck's Travels with Charley

I found it by accident at a book sale year ago, and had never heard of it.

I've always loved the cross country road trip books, so I picked it up.

became one of my favorite books of all time.

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AmazingAtheist94 t1_jawayyp wrote

Steinbeck has a lot of unerrated works.

Once There Was a War is his other major nonfiction work, it's a compendium of his columns as a war correspondent during WWII.

In Dubious Battle is my favorite of his novels. It's an early one, it's not as polished as his later works he's known for, but it's a solid story on it's own and fascinating to read in relation to the themes of The Grapes of Wrath. It's almost like a trial run for Grapes.

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gogorath t1_jawx7sd wrote

Winter of Our Discontent is one of my favorites and rarely mentioned.

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bhbhbhhh t1_jawx3dm wrote

I really want to read A Russian Journal, his recollection of visiting the Soviet Union. In his fiction, I'm curious to see if The Wayward Bus is good.

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boxer_dogs_dance t1_jaw8ozq wrote

I also loved Travels with Charley. It is ironic and witty. It makes me want to have a drink with Steinbeck. The eyewitness account of school desegregation is fascinating.

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