Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

This book is all about George and his friend Lennie who is slightly more than a little simple, They are migrant farm workers who after lennie innocently got into quite a lot of trouble at there last farm are looking for work. They get a job on a farm cutting barley, curley the bosses son is horrid to lennie right from the begining. Lennie and George have a dream of owning there own little piece of land one day which George would tend to and live off and lennie could have lots of pet rabbits. This job is supposed to be there way of paying for this dream but there dream is destroyed when lennie accidentally kills curleys wife, ...  Read the complete review

Of Men And Mice is Steinbeck's most poetically structured novel. The plot is relaxed and intriguing and realises heavily on the development and understanding of each character. A hundred pages of literature magic make Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men an enthralling novel, which can be read at ease and comfort. Lennie is the mentally unpredictable character to which George tends. His fascination of animals and particularly rabbits has drawn him to the ideal of taking care of the rabbits on the new farm that George is intending on purchasing. Their savings depend on the success of the farm as a lot of their earnings have been imbedded into its purchasing. ...  Read the complete review

Written by John Steinbeck, famous for many other novels including "The grapes of wrath". Of mice and men is the moving story of an unusual friendship. George and Lennie are holding onto the dream of owning their own farm. Set around the town of Soledad, they travel from farm to farm in the hopes of saving up enough money to buy their own place. There's only one problem though, Lennie….. ….Lennie is mentally challenged, he is a giant with the mind of a child. His antics often cause he and George to lose their jobs. Lennie's dream focuses more on farm animals than owning the farm itself. He loves soft furry animals and ...  Read the complete review

Nick Hornby calls Of Mice and Men a "perfect book". Granted, if hyperbole and overstatement belong anywhere, it's on the front covers and dust jackets of novels, but this is lofty praise nonetheless. Like Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and any number of other classics, John Steinbeck's novella (a slim fellow at a little over 100 pages in length) has become a firm favourite in school reading lists and examinations, and as is the way in these situations, potential readers may have been turned off by months of forced digestion and laboured analysis. This though would be a shame; as Hornby isn't far off in his estimation. Published in 1937 and based ...  Read the complete review

When my son announced that one of the books he was studying for his GCSE in English Literature was a really dull and he was going to watch the film instead I was a little concerned so I said I would read it as well and help bring it alive for him. When he told me it was Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck I had to suppress a groan, my only other experience of Steinbeck's work was the Grapes of Wrath and to this day it is one of only four books I have ever started and failed to finish due to lack of interest and I have read some awful books in my time. However after reading Of Mice and Men which is a short story I may give Steinbeck another try as this is a ...  Read the complete review