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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.
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Today in Labor History April 14, 1935: The Black Sunday dust storm swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This was one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl. 4 years later, on this same date, John Steinbeck published his classic working-class novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about Dust Bowl refugees in California.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dustbowl #GreatDepression #JohnSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #refugees #poverty #fiction #books #author #writer #Oklahoma #texas @bookstadon
I had so many things to say about this book. There were so many things covered and interesting topics to go on and on about.
But I just want to harp on one thing: This is, without a doubt, the most important book I’ve ever read.
I’m not saying that it’s my FAVORITE book or anything - it is the most IMPORTANT book I’ve ever read. The kind of book you wish everyone would read because it covers something so well and so thoroughly that you know in your heart if everyone read it, we’d all get on the same page and move forward in a way that made more sense. That we would realize we’ve been sold an idea forever ago that will never come to fruition. That it IS possible to move forward. Together. Toward a better future.
Because this book is about America selling its soul and turning its back on the people and even the land.
People will be real quick to dismiss it because it’s old, but I promise you that it as applicable now as it was then. You read it and you can feel the truth and the danger of the truth. You get a real feel for why this book was banned. Why Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it and why Rage Against the Machine covered that song. You get a feel for why Steinbeck says he was run out and almost killed in Oklahoma after the book had come out.
I would mention to people that I’m reading this book and they’d say “oh, that was a good movie.” I promise that, unless there was a 20-episode mini-series, it wouldn’t have the rage and sheer TEETH this book has.
Or they’d say “that’s about the dust bowl era, right?”
Partially, I guess, but that’s not what the book is about.
The is about humanity and humanity’s obligation to itself - our obligation to each other.
It is timeless and feels almost obligatory.
Normally I don’t say you should read a book. I don’t think it’s my place.
But if you haven’t read it, you should.
And if you HAVE, you should read it again.
#grapesofwrath #johnsteinbeck #books #literature #capitalism #consumerism #bookrecommendation
But I just want to harp on one thing: This is, without a doubt, the most important book I’ve ever read.
I’m not saying that it’s my FAVORITE book or anything - it is the most IMPORTANT book I’ve ever read. The kind of book you wish everyone would read because it covers something so well and so thoroughly that you know in your heart if everyone read it, we’d all get on the same page and move forward in a way that made more sense. That we would realize we’ve been sold an idea forever ago that will never come to fruition. That it IS possible to move forward. Together. Toward a better future.
Because this book is about America selling its soul and turning its back on the people and even the land.
People will be real quick to dismiss it because it’s old, but I promise you that it as applicable now as it was then. You read it and you can feel the truth and the danger of the truth. You get a real feel for why this book was banned. Why Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it and why Rage Against the Machine covered that song. You get a feel for why Steinbeck says he was run out and almost killed in Oklahoma after the book had come out.
I would mention to people that I’m reading this book and they’d say “oh, that was a good movie.” I promise that, unless there was a 20-episode mini-series, it wouldn’t have the rage and sheer TEETH this book has.
Or they’d say “that’s about the dust bowl era, right?”
Partially, I guess, but that’s not what the book is about.
The is about humanity and humanity’s obligation to itself - our obligation to each other.
It is timeless and feels almost obligatory.
Normally I don’t say you should read a book. I don’t think it’s my place.
But if you haven’t read it, you should.
And if you HAVE, you should read it again.
#grapesofwrath #johnsteinbeck #books #literature #capitalism #consumerism #bookrecommendation
Da série: sou vítima do influencing
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Un'epica #sagafamiliare che scava nelle profondità più oscure dell'animo umano, #LavalledellEden di #EliaKazan è molto più di un semplice #dramma è un affresco struggente sull'eredità del peccato, sull'amore e sul conflitto generazionale, interpretato con bruciante intensità da #JamesDean #johnsteinbeck #unofilm #unocinema #film #cinema #recensioni
https://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/la-valle-delleden-di-elia-kazan/
ascolta gratis la #recensione sul #podcast #lafogliadacanto su #spotift #amazonmusic e #youtube
Just started reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937). --- Comecei a ler Ratos e Homens de John Steinbeck (1937). #Books #OfMiceAndMen #JohnSteinbeck
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Born this day in 1902, John Steinbeck.
"Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad an’—I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry n’ they know supper’s ready. An’ when our folks eat the stuff they raise an’ live in the houses they build—why, I’ll be there. See? God, I’m talkin’ like Casy. Comes of thinkin’ about him so much. Seems like I can see him sometimes." ~ Tom Joad
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On #ThisDayInHistory in 1902, author #JohnSteinbeck was born in Salinas, CA. His work shines a light on the American obsessions with greed, militarism, and oppression. He understood our choice is between socialism and barbarism, and that the propaganda of the rich is killing us.
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„And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
#JohnSteinbeck #EastOfEden Geburt 1902
#LavalledellEden #JohnSteinbeck nel 1952, quando è già uno #scrittore e sceneggiatore di successo, pubblica quello che egli stesso considera il suo #romanzo “definitivo”, come ammette in un’intervista: “Penso che tutto ciò che ho scritto è stato, in qualche modo, di preparazione a... #unolibri #unolibro #libro #libri #leggere #recensioni
https://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/la-valle-delleden-di-john-steinbeck/
ascolta gratis tutta la #recensione sul #podcast #lafogliadacanto su #spotify #amazonmusic e #youtube
#Fermataper12ore di #VictorVicas Questa #pellicola rappresenta uno di quei casi in cui #Hollywood si è confrontata con la letteratura del grande #JohnSteinbeck cercando di trasportare sul grande schermo l’intensità della sua #narrativa Il #film prende le mosse da #Lacorrierastravagante ... #unofilm #unocinema #cinema #filmastodon #recensioni
https://www.valeriotagliaferri.it/fermata-per-12-ore-di-victor-vicas/
ascolta gratis la #recensione sul #podcast #lafogliadacanto su #spotify #amazonmusic #youtube
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2n9vrjZfypsAWDFfIiWAzg?si=98jQVKi2RrKweknxriVieA
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #books #BookChallenge #JohnSteinbeck #ALestedoParaíso
15/20
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
-- John Steinbeck
An extra reason to visit #Oamaru on your NZ road trip: "Hollywood takes over Oamaru as Florence Pugh Netflix series films in Victorian streets... East of Eden is an adaptation of John Steinbeck's 1952 novel, and filming is now underway in Oamaru's Victorian Precinct."
Moving on to my fourth book of 2025 #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #1001BooksYouMustReadBeforeYouDie #Bibliophile #Bookworm #CurrentlyReading #CanneryRow #JohnSteinbeck
