Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?

[pachyderm]

If you liked The Pearl, might I suggest (strongly) that you take a look at East of Eden, which, to my mind, is by far the best thing that John Steinbeck ever wrote.

The movie of the same name, (starring James Dean), was based on the final third of the book, but I think that the earlier two thirds of the book are what gives the entire book (including the final third) its power and heft as a story.

I've never read it because I'd heard it was 'unfinished". True story. lol.


Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thursday are three of my all time favorite books.

The Moon is Down is also pretty good...

 

[JPS127]

J.P. Smith's The Drowning. Best and most original thriller I've read in years.