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Jon Taylor
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I can feel Steinbeck more in this than in OMAM. His writing is more poetic, more experimental and yet more openly sentimental. The occasional chapters that are the voices of industry are wild - like stage dramas or poetry. Also, I bet Ma’s words about the possibility of revolution were controversial in their time!
— 9 hours, 56 min ago
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Jon Taylor
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I’m seeing classic Steinbeck tropes of men who are resisting the inevitable, men who think they can still make things work against bigger, more powerful, faceless things. Casy feels tragic already.
— 15 hours, 59 min ago
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…
— Aug 11, 2026 03:09PM
Jon Taylor
is on page 34 of 536
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.
— Aug 11, 2026 09:57AM
Jon Taylor
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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.
— Aug 11, 2026 09:55AM