Abel Castro’s Reviews > East of Eden > Status Update

Still a masterpiece.

“You’re too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.”

Only halfway through this reread and I genuinely don’t think there’s a single emotion in me Steinbeck has left unexplored. Sensational.

“It was not a fine river at all, but it was the only one we had and so we boasted about it—how dangerous it was in a wet winter and how dry it was in a dry summer. You can boast about anything if it’s all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.”

I MEAN WOW! Steinbeck comes out swinging from the get go!