Book Review - Of Mice and Men

Title: Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck
My Rating: 👍👍👍👍
My Review: I've been trying to read more classic books. This one looked interesting and didn't look too long, so I decided to give it a go. I kinda knew the title referred to the quote 

"The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry".

However, I didn't realize that the quote came from the 1785 Scottish poem "To a Mouse" by Robert Burns 

"The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley." 

Apparently Burns wrote the poem after accidentally plowing over a mouse's winter burrow. He then laments that both mice and humans suffer from the 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, pretty much summarizes the book. I liked this book and hopefully this will be a continuing trend in reading more classic books.

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.