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  1. Finished this (*East of Eden*) this morning --- this was stellar.

    I mean, sure, it's a classic. But I was not planning to end 2025 and bring in 2026 with a 650 page, multi-generational epic that is about good and evil and our personal battles with each, and that is also about our familial/cultural/national inheritances, and also about national identity and difficult histories, and also about the very difficult thing that is family relationships even at their best...

    and also, is just one really long exegesis of Cain and Abel (and maybe all of Genesis)...

    but I am so glad I did.

    I think this and my recent reading of Cannery Row have made me a full-fledged Steinbeck fan.

    #Bookstodon #JohnSteinbeck #EastOfEden

  2. "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."

    -- #FirstSentences of John Steinbeck, *East of Eden*

    ---

    This is my first read of East of Eden.

    I am finishing the first Library of America volume of his novels, 1942-1952. Page numbers for these #ReadingNotes will reference that edition.

    #JohnSteinbeck #EastOfEden #Bookstodon

  3. "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."

    -- #FirstSentences of John Steinbeck, *East of Eden*

    ---

    This is my first read of East of Eden.

    I am finishing the first Library of America volume of his novels, 1942-1952. Page numbers for these #ReadingNotes will reference that edition.

    #JohnSteinbeck #EastOfEden #Bookstodon

  4. "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."

    -- #FirstSentences of John Steinbeck, *East of Eden*

    ---

    This is my first read of East of Eden.

    I am finishing the first Library of America volume of his novels, 1942-1952. Page numbers for these #ReadingNotes will reference that edition.

    #JohnSteinbeck #EastOfEden #Bookstodon

  5. "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."

    -- #FirstSentences of John Steinbeck, *East of Eden*

    ---

    This is my first read of East of Eden.

    I am finishing the first Library of America volume of his novels, 1942-1952. Page numbers for these #ReadingNotes will reference that edition.

    #JohnSteinbeck #EastOfEden #Bookstodon

  6. "The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."

    -- of John Steinbeck, *East of Eden*

    ---

    This is my first read of East of Eden.

    I am finishing the first Library of America volume of his novels, 1942-1952. Page numbers for these will reference that edition.

  7. RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuth

    I'm a huge John Steinbeck fan! #EastofEden is my favourite of his works. The depth of character, the cycle of life and death and the resilience of human beings is all caught in this allegory. It is Steinbeck's painful stripping away; of his characters, society, environment, leaving the barest of feeling and emotional struggle exposed to the reader. Sometimes shocking, sometimes horrifying, but always with a genuine understanding of why humans are the way they are. #Steinbeck #bookstodon

  8. RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuth

    I'm a huge John Steinbeck fan! #EastofEden is my favourite of his works. The depth of character, the cycle of life and death and the resilience of human beings is all caught in this allegory. It is Steinbeck's painful stripping away; of his characters, society, environment, leaving the barest of feeling and emotional struggle exposed to the reader. Sometimes shocking, sometimes horrifying, but always with a genuine understanding of why humans are the way they are. #Steinbeck #bookstodon

  9. RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuth

    I'm a huge John Steinbeck fan! #EastofEden is my favourite of his works. The depth of character, the cycle of life and death and the resilience of human beings is all caught in this allegory. It is Steinbeck's painful stripping away; of his characters, society, environment, leaving the barest of feeling and emotional struggle exposed to the reader. Sometimes shocking, sometimes horrifying, but always with a genuine understanding of why humans are the way they are. #Steinbeck #bookstodon

  10. RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuth

    I'm a huge John Steinbeck fan! #EastofEden is my favourite of his works. The depth of character, the cycle of life and death and the resilience of human beings is all caught in this allegory. It is Steinbeck's painful stripping away; of his characters, society, environment, leaving the barest of feeling and emotional struggle exposed to the reader. Sometimes shocking, sometimes horrifying, but always with a genuine understanding of why humans are the way they are. #Steinbeck #bookstodon

  11. RE: kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuth

    I'm a huge John Steinbeck fan! #EastofEden is my favourite of his works. The depth of character, the cycle of life and death and the resilience of human beings is all caught in this allegory. It is Steinbeck's painful stripping away; of his characters, society, environment, leaving the barest of feeling and emotional struggle exposed to the reader. Sometimes shocking, sometimes horrifying, but always with a genuine understanding of why humans are the way they are. #Steinbeck #bookstodon

  12. #LiteraryQuotes #Steinbeck #EastOfEden

    Gee, he was good.

    “Her house became the refuge of young men puling in puberty, mourning over lost virtue, and aching to lose some more.”
    John Steinbeck; East of Eden; Viking; 1952.

  13. wacoca.com/media/283829/ East Of Edenのインタビュー&動画メッセージ含む特設ページ公開!新ベーシスト MINAと共に新章へ、モダンでラウドな初のフル・アルバムを明日3/12リリース! | 激ロック ニュース #EastOfEden #music #音楽

  14. #TakingABreakFromFilming
    #EastOfEden (1955)
    Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

    #JamesDean #LoisSmith on set.
    #FilmMastodon 📽️ 🎬

  15. The Floods, the Farms, and the River That Roared Back - Agriculture beat the Salinas into submission. Now, it has returned with a fury. - wired.com/story/the-floods-the #science/environment #eastofeden #science

  16. It took awhile and I took a couple of breaks for some lighter fare adding the way, but I just finished East of Eden. Well worth the time.
    #bookstodon
    #johnsteinbeck
    #eastofeden