I can't believe some teachers make teenagers read **Of Mice and Men** in school.

Don't get me wrong, it was good but it's so... miserable. Everyone's life is so awful.
I need to read more by **John Steinbeck**!

Edit: I know the misery is the point of **Of Mice and Men**. Doesn't mean I enjoyed reading it. It was fine, just not a favorite. I wouldn't recommend it for a 'feel-good' read, that's for sure. If you're looking for **book reviews** that are honest, this is it: well-written but depressing!

John Steinbeck’s *Of Mice and Men* is a novella (around 72 pages) that throws you right into the heart of the Great Depression, following the lives of two men. George, the smaller of the two, and Lennie, the big guy, are farmhands with a shared dream: to one day own their own little piece of land. But they've just been run out of their last town. Is this new ranch a second chance? Will George and Lennie finally achieve their dream? *Of Mice and Men* is seriously dark. I mean *dark*. Steinbeck i...

Oh, crap. Don't laugh, but it *just now* clicked for me: John Steinbeck's *Of Mice and Men* has been on my bucket list forever. It's one of those stories that's just...everywhere, but somehow I've managed to dodge spoilers for the last 45 years. How? I'm going way out on a shaky limb here, but I'm gonna say it's probably because nothing about me screams, "Pay attention to depressing books about ranch hands!" Steinbeck packs a serious punch into this relatively short story. The casually awf...

Sometimes people can do awful things; sometimes they mean to, and sometimes they don't.In this novel, we learn the story of George and Lennie, two wandering day laborers traveling together, from job to job, from trouble to trouble. One small and cunning, the other giant and mentally challenged. Working from city to city, from field to field, but always protecting each other. A dream pushes them forward: to work the fields until they have enough to purchase a small farm of their own. A place wher...

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves..." Oscar Wilde's prison poem came to mind not only for its literal truth in the context of Lenny and George in John Steinbeck's *Of Mice and Men*, but also because it evokes the brutal isolation of the whole cast of characters, each one of them stuck in their separate reality and unable to connect with each other. The young lonely wife has nobody to confide in and keeps looking for trouble out of sheer isolation. The black man is so utterly alone that he ...

I remember reading **Of Mice and Men** in school and being completely uninterested in the story. I remember the teacher droning on about basic plot allegories before we read each section; she would tell us what certain things “meant” before we had even seen them. She would explain how this portrays a vital part of American culture and a vital element of human nature. All in all, we were told what to see in the book before we even began reading. Perhaps she should have just let us read it first ...

Of Mice and Men is a story about the purest form of kindness – and it's tough to discuss kindness without sounding cheesy, but John Steinbeck was one of the few who could pull it off.His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.In this harsh world, simple men live in their own dreamlands, chasing rainbows. If you're looking for classic American literature, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is a must-read. A tru...

Well, somehow I've managed to read close to 800 books by now, and *Of Mice and Men* wasn't one of them. That's been fixed now, and I'm feeling **emotionally drained by it**. So, yeah.\n\n**I suppose pretty much everyone knows the heartbreaking story of Lennie and George.** I was relatively 'unspoiled' and still knew what happened in the end. I just didn't know how or why, but figured that out pretty quickly into the book. *And still, that didn't help the sense of impending doom that was like one...

"Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em."

Breathtaking prose, touching characters, and a heartbreaking ending. Who said only lengthy novels can make an impact? John Steinbeck's *Of Mice and Men* proves that powerful stories can be told with incredible brevity. If you're looking for classic book reviews that pack an emotional punch, look no further than *Of Mice and Men*.

I needed a quick read because I stupidly forgot that the library would be closed yesterday for Veteran's Day. I'd exhausted my current supply, and I needed a short-term fix to hold me over until I could get some new books today. So I grabbed Of Mice and Men off the bookshelf last night. And I'm glad I did because I'd somehow remembered that this was a depressing book. How wrong I was! Oh, sure, there were some tense moments, like when you think Lennie will accidentally hurt Curley's wife in the...