Author: John Steinbeck
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍
My Review: I've been trying to broaden my horizons and read more classic books. I'd heard alot about this book but I never realized it was based on a famous quote from the 1785 Scottish poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns
Apparently Burns wrote the poem after accidentally plowing over a mouse's winter burrow. He then lamented that both mice and humans suffer from the same unpredictability of life, and no matter how carefully we prepare, unforeseen circumstances, bad luck, or human nature can ruin those preparations. That, in a nutshell, summarizes his book. It's a tragic story of two men who have dreams of living a life of ease but unfortunately, life has other plans. I really liked this book and am looking forward to reading more classics.
Description (Audible): From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, this classic story of an unlikely pair, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression who grasp for their American Dream, profoundly touches readers and audiences alike. George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own—a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like “the best laid schemes o’mice an’ men,” begin to go awry.
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