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megantyler's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Miscarriage, and Death of parent
Minor: Racial slurs
aristarcodisamo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Violence and Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Gun violence, Blood, Dementia, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
khgp's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Racial slurs, Police brutality, Grief, and Deportation
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Death of parent, and Colonisation
rustedtrains's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Moderate: Child death and Police brutality
Minor: Racial slurs
sundayfever's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, and Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Racial slurs
hannahsutherland's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
At first I found the book slow and it took me a little while to connect with the characters, but once I did, I was sucked in.
At first I felt like the book ended quite suddenly, but the more I think about it, the more the ending makes sense.
Moderate: Misogyny and Racial slurs
Minor: Racism
kristiniad's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Medical trauma, and Murder
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
traingossip's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Death and Police brutality
Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, and Suicide
a major theme of the novel concerns poverty and starvation. As is police brutality, though in the context of the book against poor white people.menomica's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
We can’t depend on it. The bank—the monster has to have profits all the time. It can’t wait. It’ll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can’t stay one size.
Reading this book made me fall out of love with reading. It made me give up my no dnf goal for the year. It’s not a bad story, and John Steinbeck is a good storyteller in his own right, but he definitely is not a good writer. I do like the way he portrays events effecting the Joads as effecting the rest of the migrants into California; the only problem is he is just really bad at prose and syntax.
Also, in the words of femkereindeer, I never want to read this man talk about a woman’s body ever again, thank you very much. Like my god, this is so creepily horny for all the female characters in this book, or very weirdly sexualizes them.
I think it’s weird how this book got flack for being communist propaganda when it was literally just like «poor ppl got fuck over domestically because of capitalist practices that denied ppl access to basic needs like food and shelter, not because of lack of access but because of lack of capital» which is, exactly what happened!
Tom was kinda funny cause he really would just say whatever and not give a fuck. Love that for him.
Graphic: Classism
Moderate: Death and Violence
Minor: Animal death, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Vomit
ethrbo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, and Pregnancy
Minor: Racial slurs