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Old Apr 13, 2013, 10:25 PM
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Love that movie, and the novel, both.

My sister had the same reaction when she watched Of Mice & Men on tv when she was about 13. Completely traumatized.

Those are two novels I absolutely LOVE to teach, but they are taught on a different grade level.

I love Steinbeck, but a bit too much of him in one sitting will have a person slitting their wrists. East of Eden is my absolute favorite of his works.
I liked the novel, but still can't do the movie. I can read almost anything, even if sad. I like most of Steinbeck too, although I found Mice and Men the saddest of them. I never watched the movie. I am not a huge movie watcher to begin with and sad or scary I can't separate from in movie form. Like All Quiet on the Western Front was too sad as a movie for me, but I reread the book. And Catch 22 is an all time favorite, but the movie, to me, was not funny, just sad.
The most void of hope thing I ever read was Long Days Journey Into Night - so then I went into and O'Neill phase and read all his stuff.