Tortilla flat audiobook free9/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I kept reading, hoping it would expose some other side of the gang's character, but in the end I realized this is just a book about a bunch of guys who get together and drink and party. ![]() Maybe that is because I was not it's target market. " I liked that this one was about near where I lived but I found it a little boring. " I enjoyed the quirky humor in this book. My daughters both recommend East of Eden, so that will be my next Steinbeck. To me it was interesing but not too memorable. Went to the public library and this one was available, so I read it. " I look back now to 2009 when I made a small vow to read some of the classic authors, including Steinbeck. " Really, it's a collection of short stories about a band of poor men who do good deeds and drink lots of jug wine in Monterey. I enjoyed his vivid discriptions of his characters by the end of the book I felt as if I'd known these people all my life. " I read this book when I was 13 and remember not liking or understanding it. It is still well written, still entertaining, but read one of his more famous works first. I did not find it as engaging as either of his previous works. " This series of tales describes the Mexican inhabitants of Tortilla Flat. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:."A book about the deep mysteries of a simple life in the Tortilla Flat, friends learning to be together and helping each other, a story about kindness and wine moods. As Steinbeck chronicles their deeds-their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking-he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging-men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude. "Steinbeck is an artist and he tells stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose."- New York Herald Tribune Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. ![]()
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