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| Monday, March 27, 2006 |
"Travels with Charley"
It seems like it took me a really long time to finish "Travels with Charley ." I was expecting it to be a fun-to-read travelogue, but I really didn't enjoy it that much. Maybe it's because of my associative distaste for John Steinbeck. It just seemed like he thought he would write a fun little tale of his travels, but then he got home and just couldn't shake the melancholy. A lot of Steinbeck's observations are still spot-on, though, and some of his stuff did make me laugh. Well, smile a little, at least.
"When we get these thurways across the whole country ... it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing."
"I was so full of humble greatness, I could hardly speak. ... I hope that evil-looking service-station man may live a thousand years and people the earth with his offspring."
posted by Nichole @ 4:50 PM
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