Ratos e Homens

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Portuguese language

Published July 27, 2013 by L&PM Pocket.

ISBN:
978-85-254-2799-1
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5 stars (3 reviews)

Ratos e homens, publicado originalmente em 1937, é um dos mais belos textos de John Steinbeck (1902-1968) – um dos maiores romancistas do século XX – e até hoje um dos livros mais lidos do autor.

George e Lennie são dois amigos bem diferentes entre si. George é baixo e franzino, porém astuto, e Lennie é grandalhão, uma verdadeira fortaleza humana, mas com a inteligência de uma criança. Só o que os une é a amizade e a posição de marginalizados pelo sistema, o fato de serem homens sem nada na vida, sequer família, que trabalham fazendo bicos em fazendas da Califórnia durante a recessão econômica americana da década de 30. Ganham pouco mais do que comida e moradia. No caminho, encontram outros sujeitos pobres e explorados, mas também situações que colocam em risco a sua miserável e humilde existência.

Em Ratos e homens, Steinbeck levou à maestria sua capacidade …

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reviewed Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Classics should be this short always

4 stars

I picked this up because I'm on a mission to read more of the books other people think you should have read. I hope it improved me in some way, because, spoiler alert, it has a sad end. And you can see it coming for the whole time. And I don't know what the answer is for Lennie and George, but they didn't deserve this.

It's good. It's tense, and anxious, and you're waiting for the other shoe to drop all the way through, and then when it does, you're simultaneously shocked and horrified, but also, not remotely surprised.

It's short, though, so there's that. And next time someone sends me a list of 99 books I should have read by now, I can tick this one off.

reviewed Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Great

5 stars

The famous Mark Twain quote "I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one" is now considered to be a misattribution, that Twain never said.

Nonetheless, whoever did say it - this book made me think of it. Truly it takes skill, craft, and artistry to write well and also be succinct.

This book feels perfect not because there's nothing else to add, but because there's nothing else to take away.

This book captured my imagination in 120 pages. And now it will stay with me for a while.