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A review by rick2
Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
4.0
Steinbeck takes a dreamy, romantic, and commonly humorous trip across the United States with his dog Charley. Written in 1962 it delivers a snapshot America that we have rightfully mythologized in the following decades. Cute diners with semi a oblivious waitresses, stopping to fish off the edge of a road somewhere. Drinking whiskey with all mannor of strange men and women. It sounds so peaceful and simple.
I wish I could inhabit that world. But as the ‘great’ novel "who moved my cheese" tells me, we can't go back, progress moves always forward, marching forever onwards. We must ceaselessly beat on, boats against the current, searching for who moved our cheese.
Sleepy, beautiful, Sieinbeck inhabited America is no longer, we must continue on. And we are all the sadder for it.
I wish I could inhabit that world. But as the ‘great’ novel "who moved my cheese" tells me, we can't go back, progress moves always forward, marching forever onwards. We must ceaselessly beat on, boats against the current, searching for who moved our cheese.
Sleepy, beautiful, Sieinbeck inhabited America is no longer, we must continue on. And we are all the sadder for it.