Of Mice and Men

This was a short novel. I pretty much read this book in one day. I had this book for awhile and I'm glad I picked it up and read it. Now I can say that I read it.

I gave this book a good/average rating. I enjoyed the book. It was an easy read. It had some disturbing parts about killing animals and then another human being. And then Lennie getting killed himself by his own friend George.

I was sort of surprised of some of the details of the book when I had read the spark notes afterward. It said that there were signs in the book of Lennie's fate. By Candy's dog being killed by some other man, instead of himself. The dog being killed would be Lennie. And the man killing the dog would come to be George killing Lennie. I didn't get that connection when I was reading this story.

I did not care for the ending. I guess because George ended up killing his friend Lennie. I kind of got a feel that it was leading up to the fact that Lennie was going to get shot but I didn't think that his ole pal George would it.

It did tell in the story that Lennie went into hiding at place where George had told him to go if he ever did anything really bad. George told Lennie that he would meet him there in the brush, when the time came.

At the end of the story when the men suspected that Lennie killed Curley's wife, they all went after him with guns. They told George that he was to go with them so that they wouldn't think that he was involved with the killing himself.

So when it was told at the end of the story that George had met up with Lennie in the shrubs, and that there were the sounds of the men coming up from the background, I assumed that George was told to go on ahead and point Lennie out to them at the place of the hiding and that they would shoot Lennie. But as we know, George told Lennie to look over across the river and that he would tell him a story again about the two of them finding their own land.

Then as Lennie was gazing over the river and listening to the story, George shot Lennie in the back of the head. I wish it would of been one of the other men and not George. Because George was suppose to be his friend. But I didn't write the story.

This is the first book that I read from John Steinbeck. Would reading this book make me want to run out to read another one of his book's? Probably not. But there is another book of his that I've been wanting to read, The Grapes of Wrath. Maybe one day that book will come across my path. I have several books that I have to read first because their borrowed from my daughter.

So there you have it. My brief book review. I hope my book reviews don't deter anyone from reading this book. I still think that this is a classic book and it's a must read! Also this book was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. So you really do want to read the book.

Please comment. I would love to hear from you. What's your take on the book?

Happy reading....Anne