A review by wdkilpackiii
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

4.0

Of Mice and Men haunts me more than almost everything else I have ever read (and I have read a lot). Perhaps it was relating to the characters as outsiders, perhaps it was the way that Steinbeck just tore out my heart by somehow drawing out every ounce of empathy in my being. The straight-forward narrative was, at times, brutal. It was for this reason that I gave it four stars, rather than five, because it occasionally distracted me from the story because I had to sit back and recover. Nonetheless, I would heartily recommend this as a fine piece of literature that captures a place and time, and certainly a difficult situation. Recommended!