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East of Eden – A Quick Review

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While I enjoyed this book, I found it diffficult to follow at times, with Steinbeck’s dialogue not flowing in a natural way. Cathy is an evil woman though, and having a villain like her makes the novel very engrossing. Of course many a literary scholar would disagree that Cathy is a villain in the classic mustache twirling kin of way, but believe me she is evil.

Steinbeck says that this book is based on stories from the area he grew-up in, and indeed there are some Steinbecks in the book, but other things I have read about this book say that it is a retelling of the Adam and Eve (in the book this is Adam and Cathy) and then Cain and Abel (Cal and Aron), so who knows how much is based in fact, and how much is from his imagination.

Good book, and yes I got this one from Oprah too. But the next one I did not. Promise.

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