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Didn’t realise this was where Tom Joad was from. Seems a weasly fellow. The prose is beautiful and the voices are perfectly judged so the reader cannot help but be taken away to California in the dust bowl years. Such a confident opening.
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Jon Taylor
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An abstracted chapter which takes a broad approach so that it’s every tenant, or every tractor driver. And the anger is seething, and the impotence. Capitalism as machine. Steinbeck writes: ‘We got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change.’ And I think of us, and the world we have now, and AI…
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Jon Taylor
is on page 34 of 536
Didn’t realise this is where Tom Joad is from. Seems a weaselly fellow. The prose is beautiful; the voices well-judged, so the reader cannot help but be taken to the dust bowl of California. Such a confident opening.
— 10 hours, 57 min ago