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My ADHD ass made it through Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds, and I re-read Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath 20 years after high school and had it finally click, so there's that
Every leftist needs to read Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck cooked.
i can't recommend that. it's a couple really good quotes adrift in a sea of some of the boringest boring to ever bore.
it's ok to have bad taste
yeah all the people who derive enjoyment from steinbeck's prose should be neurology case studies. I used to like reading, grapes is a horrible read.
it's ok to be wrong
right, the consensus on the quality of his writing is incorrect.
really no judgement, somebody has gotta be the target audience for Dan Brown and Lee Child books
now shots have been fired
i was more of a Jules Verne and The Autobiography of Malcolm X kid
that's how i felt when i tried to read that book yeah