East of Eden
Registered by 
perryfran
of Elk Grove, California USA on 5/27/2006
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
perryfran of Elk Grove, California USA on 5/27/2006 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
11 journalers for this copy...
Wonderful Steinbeck novel. Probably his best - comparable to Grapes of Wrath.From an Amazon.com reviewer:
John Steinbeck tells a moving tale of two brothers and how their lives are changed by the people around them. Initially sounding like the biblical story of Cain and Abel, Steinbeck puts a new twist on the traditional story, compelling you to see the characters and your own life from a different perspective. It's amazing to witness your emotions and sympathies shift as the story progresses and it's thought provoking to see Steinbeck's distinction between good and evil. After you finish this book, you will find yourself going over and over the symbolism in the story, how the plots twists, and the insight into the sources of good and evil. This book ranks at the top of "My Most Favorite Books of All Time" list and will spend little time on my bookshelf as I re-read and re-read this book, gaining something new each time.
Will be doing a bookray for this.
Starting a bookray for this book. Please PM me if interested. Bookray will remain open until last person reads the book.Participants so far:
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Note: Order is subject to change based on shipping preferences and others joining the bookray.
How the bookray works:
* Someone will PM you for your address, PM them back and provide your address
* When you receive the book, please make a journal entry letting everyone know that you received it
* Put the book at the top of your TBR pile (under other rings/rays that arrived first)
* Read the book (take your time and enjoy the book, don't feel rushed to finish it)
* When the end is in sight, check the book's journal and PM the next person to get their address
* Finish the book, make another journal entry and let everyone know what you thought of the book
* Send the book to the next person on the list (please use the cheapest shipping method available), make release notes (Controlled Release) or journal entry to let everyone know that it's in the mail
* END OF THE RAY, The last person on the ray could try and continue the ray or just give/mail the book to someone else who might like to read it, perhaps a RABCK - look at cliff1976.com wish list web site, or release it into the wild.
Please feel free to PM me at any time with questions
Bookray is now completed. Thanks everyone for participating!
Journal Entry 3 by perryfran at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Thursday, June 1, 2006
perryfran at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Thursday, June 1, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (6/2/2006 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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On its way to Minnesota. Enjoy!
On its way to Minnesota. Enjoy!
Journal Entry 5 by -Psyche- at A fellow bookcrosser in By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, August 27, 2006
Released 17 yrs ago (8/28/2006 UTC) at A fellow bookcrosser in By mail, A Bookring -- Controlled Releases
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Thanks for including me! The book will be off into the post shortly! (Took a while to get ahold of the next bookcrosser, but after a few vacations and some faulty PMs we're up to speed.)
Thanks for including me! The book will be off into the post shortly! (Took a while to get ahold of the next bookcrosser, but after a few vacations and some faulty PMs we're up to speed.)
Caught!!! I have two rings/rays ahead of it, but I should be able to start it within a week. Thank you to Perryfran for sharing!!!
It took me awhile, but I am finally finished. It's a heavy book and I needed to take the time to digest and enjoy it. Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors and I really liked this book in particular. I cannot wait to see the movie version. I am curious to see how much they cut out of it. Also, there will be a new movie version coming out, directed by Ron Howard. I cannot possibly imagine how chopped the book will be. I am glad that I read it first!!!
I am headed to the post office right now to send the book along to the next reader. Thank you to Perryfran for sharing!!!
I am headed to the post office right now to send the book along to the next reader. Thank you to Perryfran for sharing!!!
I journaled this when I recieved it, but I guess I forgot to hit the submit button. Sorry! I am going to Dallas for thanksgiving so I will read this in the airport ect on the trip. Thanks for sending it.
This is one of my least favorite Steinbeck books. It just seems like everyone is a victim. Maybe it is just me, missing the good in it. The writing is good in a sense that Steinbeck expresses his ideas very well, I just don't like the story. Thanks for including me. PMing next in line.
I just received this book today. I have a couple of books before it. I should be able to get to it in a couple of weeks.
This book was mailed out to rooshill yesterday evening.
caught and waiting to be read - have another ring I'm working on
Starting today - thank goodness! The book I just finished was rather blah...but I know Steinbeck could never do that to me!
I'll have to disagree with the folks who compared this closely with The Grapes of Wrath. This one is very good, but I don't feel it on the same level that I did GoW. I agree with laurarn's complaint that "everyone is a victim" but I also don't mind that so much. That's just Steinbeck. His gift was putting it all so matter-of-factly that it didn't sound like a whine, but a simple story, or, when appropriate, and noble lament.
The comparisons to the story of Cain and Abel are interesting, especially the way they carry from one generation to the next.
I don't think I'd like to see the "ABC MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION" for fear I'd upset my husband by throwing things at the TV in disgust. ;)The cover of this book irritates me. It gives a picture that didn't ever happen! The house must be the one on the Trasks' ranch because there's no other building nearby and they didn't have a horse in town. With that dress, the girl can only be Abra - but she was never at the ranch past the age of 10! The guy is likely Cal, but it's hard to say since nothing else makes sense. They may have decided to make Aron dark-haired, or Lee a white guy. meh. I know it's silly, but it bugs me! Plus, the overall makes it look like a sappy love story.
I think I'm just extra grumpy 'cause I'm sick. meh. :D
Send me your addy, perryfran, and I'll get this mailed as soon as I can leave the house - and thanks for sharing. Even though I hate the cover, I like the book. :)
The comparisons to the story of Cain and Abel are interesting, especially the way they carry from one generation to the next.
I don't think I'd like to see the "ABC MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION" for fear I'd upset my husband by throwing things at the TV in disgust. ;)The cover of this book irritates me. It gives a picture that didn't ever happen! The house must be the one on the Trasks' ranch because there's no other building nearby and they didn't have a horse in town. With that dress, the girl can only be Abra - but she was never at the ranch past the age of 10! The guy is likely Cal, but it's hard to say since nothing else makes sense. They may have decided to make Aron dark-haired, or Lee a white guy. meh. I know it's silly, but it bugs me! Plus, the overall makes it look like a sappy love story.
I think I'm just extra grumpy 'cause I'm sick. meh. :D
Send me your addy, perryfran, and I'll get this mailed as soon as I can leave the house - and thanks for sharing. Even though I hate the cover, I like the book. :)
The book has made it back to me from rooshill. Thanks to everyone for participating in this bookray so far! I'll be sending it on tomorrow to abrokenstarr in the UK for its European leg of the journey.
Journal Entry 16 by perryfran at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
perryfran at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada on Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Released 17 yrs ago (2/22/2007 UTC) at To the next participant in Bookring/Bookray, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- Canada
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Continuing the bookray to abrokenstarr in the UK. Enjoy!
Continuing the bookray to abrokenstarr in the UK. Enjoy!
Journal Entry 17 by abrokenstarr from Reading, Berkshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Arrived. Will get to it asap.
Well, luck would have it that this is next on the TBR pile, much sooner than usual for rings - anyway, looking forward to this. I teach Of Mice and Men and think it is brilliant.
An excellent book which I greatly enjoyed reading.
It's the story of Adam Trask - a boy who has to grow up without his mother to begin with and with a father who clearly loves him but pushes him too hard as a result. It's the story of many lives interwove, from Adam's parents to his half-brother to his own wife and children. It's also the story of his friends, such as Samuel Hamilton, who shakes Adam awake and Lee, his Chinese servant.
Will forward this soon, hopefully this week if I get hold of an address.
The narrative moves from one character to the next with ease, all characters playing an important role in Adam's life.
My only criticism would be the way that some characters just seemed to disappear. I guess that the idea was that Adam was not proactive enough, but not contacting Charles for ten years seemed a little strange.
It has been interesting reading this at the same time as reading 'Of Mice and Men' to my year 11 class, as I can see some similarities.
It's the story of Adam Trask - a boy who has to grow up without his mother to begin with and with a father who clearly loves him but pushes him too hard as a result. It's the story of many lives interwove, from Adam's parents to his half-brother to his own wife and children. It's also the story of his friends, such as Samuel Hamilton, who shakes Adam awake and Lee, his Chinese servant.
Will forward this soon, hopefully this week if I get hold of an address.
The narrative moves from one character to the next with ease, all characters playing an important role in Adam's life.
My only criticism would be the way that some characters just seemed to disappear. I guess that the idea was that Adam was not proactive enough, but not contacting Charles for ten years seemed a little strange.
It has been interesting reading this at the same time as reading 'Of Mice and Men' to my year 11 class, as I can see some similarities.
Posting to chas04 tomorrow second class.
Journal Entry 21 by chas04 from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Sunday, March 25, 2007
I found this behind my rosebush this morning! The postman must have left it there! Anyway, it is safely with me, one book to read in front of this one and then I'll get started.
Journal Entry 22 by chas04 from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 4, 2007
As I've been sick with the flu I've been able to sit down and get through this book fairly quickly. I did enjoy it, the two families (Hamilton and Trask) and the story of their lives at the turn of the 20th century. A story of father and son relationships and how kids grow up in reponse to their parenting. I enjoyed reading about Cathy, her ups and downs, it added a little spice to the story. I did get fed up with the endless philosophising of Samuel and Lee though. That's not what I read a book for.
Anyway, not a bad read, I've read better, I've read worse. I still prefer 'Of Mice and Men'.
Awaiting CaterinaAnna's address and then I'll send it on.
Anyway, not a bad read, I've read better, I've read worse. I still prefer 'Of Mice and Men'.
Awaiting CaterinaAnna's address and then I'll send it on.
Journal Entry 23 by chas04 from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Sending on to CaterinaAnna in Coventry, enjoy the book!
Journal Entry 24 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Monday, April 16, 2007
Awaited me at school today in one of the most recycled envelopes I can remember seeing. Thanks chas 04.
Is currently number three on Mount TBR, but two should be a quick read so should be on its way by the end of the month.
Is currently number three on Mount TBR, but two should be a quick read so should be on its way by the end of the month.
Journal Entry 25 by Caterinaanna from Coventry, West Midlands United Kingdom on Thursday, May 3, 2007
Well, didn't quite make it by my target date, but the start of the new term has proved busier than intended.
I've only recently read 'The Grapes of Wrath' and much preferred this one. I felt the story moved on more quickly, the balance between narrative and description was more to my taste and the development towards the final word held the book together. It is rare for me to notice a theme in a book without being annoyed by the contrivance, but this was one of the exceptions.
I too was confused & annoyed by the cover - not just because of the points raised above, but also because if it is Aron & Abra, the clothing is of the wrong period for when they were that age. Grr seconded.
Need to go back to 'Of Mice & Men' soon, I suppose.
Have PM'd indygo88 for an address.
I've only recently read 'The Grapes of Wrath' and much preferred this one. I felt the story moved on more quickly, the balance between narrative and description was more to my taste and the development towards the final word held the book together. It is rare for me to notice a theme in a book without being annoyed by the contrivance, but this was one of the exceptions.
I too was confused & annoyed by the cover - not just because of the points raised above, but also because if it is Aron & Abra, the clothing is of the wrong period for when they were that age. Grr seconded.
Need to go back to 'Of Mice & Men' soon, I suppose.
Have PM'd indygo88 for an address.
Journal Entry 26 by Caterinaanna at book ring in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases on Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (5/9/2007 UTC) at book ring in a RABCK, By Mail/Post/Courier -- Controlled Releases
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Winging its way back across the ocean as soon as I leave the house this mroning: via a postbox, not a lob into the sea, I hasten to add!
Winging its way back across the ocean as soon as I leave the house this mroning: via a postbox, not a lob into the sea, I hasten to add!
Wow -- that was speedy! It arrived today. I am really SWAMPED at the moment, so there will be a few reads before this one. Fortunately I'm at the end of the ray, so I don't feel quite as pressured.
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I'm ashamed to say I still haven't read this. :-( But rather then let it linger on my shelf, I'm going to allow it to find a new reader to continue its journey. Shipping off to Tribefan for the Akron Book Festival!
I'm ashamed to say I still haven't read this. :-( But rather then let it linger on my shelf, I'm going to allow it to find a new reader to continue its journey. Shipping off to Tribefan for the Akron Book Festival!
Thanks for sending!!
Reserved for the This City Reads/Akron Reading festival day Feb. 6th, 2010
Reserved for the This City Reads/Akron Reading festival day Feb. 6th, 2010
Journal Entry 30 by 
Tribefan
at Main Library In Downtown Akron in Akron, Ohio USA on Friday, February 5, 2010
Tribefan at Main Library In Downtown Akron in Akron, Ohio USA on Friday, February 5, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (2/6/2010 UTC) at Main Library In Downtown Akron in Akron, Ohio USA
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Look for the Rubber City Book Posse!
We will have a table and be giving away books at the Family Reading Festival on Saturday, Feb 6th from 10AM to 4PM. Located at the Main Library in downtown Akron.
Welcome to BookCrossing!
Thank you for picking up this book. Please make a journal entry on the BookCrossing site (www.bookcrossing.com) to let me know that this book has found a good home with you. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free). If you join, please consider indicating that you were referred by Tribefan. I hope you enjoy the book. You can make another journal entry with your comments when you’ve finished reading. Whenever you’re ready to send it on its way, make a journal entry if you are giving or sending this book to a known person, or release notes if you are leaving it “in the wild” again for anyone to catch. Then watch its journey. You’ll be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry. It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free.
Look for the Rubber City Book Posse!
We will have a table and be giving away books at the Family Reading Festival on Saturday, Feb 6th from 10AM to 4PM. Located at the Main Library in downtown Akron.
Welcome to BookCrossing!
Thank you for picking up this book. Please make a journal entry on the BookCrossing site (www.bookcrossing.com) to let me know that this book has found a good home with you. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free). If you join, please consider indicating that you were referred by Tribefan. I hope you enjoy the book. You can make another journal entry with your comments when you’ve finished reading. Whenever you’re ready to send it on its way, make a journal entry if you are giving or sending this book to a known person, or release notes if you are leaving it “in the wild” again for anyone to catch. Then watch its journey. You’ll be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry. It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free.
