Of Mice and Men

The Glass Menagerie, another love, also a play, one to two hours.

The Great Gatsby, which we talked about earlier, of Mice and Men, that is one that just about everyone in our book club loves.

It is very short, maybe like 100 pages, and it is easy.

It helps you check off a Steinbeck classic off of your list.

I think

that was probably a choice maybe from the school at the time, but I think the next one that we did as a class was Of Mice and Men, so that was John Steinbeck, and you obviously see these characters, and it's a really well-written book as well, and the stories... kind of sad isn't it like the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry i think it's the same because they have these two brothers have this dream of like you know living a different life and then it all goes wrong and in the end it just falls apart and so there was a sadness in the book and i remember just thinking emotionally reading it and actually getting quite sad and thinking wow like i'm i'm getting moved by the words on the page and that was the first time that happened to me and then i was probably like 13 or 14 years old

Yeah, so powerful, powerful stuff.

And actually, again, you know, your imagination being captured by that story.

Give me an answer for the Gaffigan tickets, boy, girl, man or woman in a title.

One of my favorite books in school, Of Mice and Men.

I'll go with that.

That's a big answer.

We'll allow it.

John said a different Iron Man.

All right, so amongst those said by the audience, the big answer is the Golden Girls, Rain Man, Boys in the Hood, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Of Mice and Men.

We said man.

You can care about somebody without taking the responsibility for every problem in their life, and you can establish boundaries without feeling guilty about having those boundaries.

There's a story in John Steinbeck's book of Mice and Men that has always said something important about friendship to me since I had to read it in school.

George and Lenny are two men trying to survive during the Great Depression.

They keep traveling from job to job and holding on to this dream that someday they're going to have this little place of their own where they can build their own house, raise their own little garden and do their own thing.

Yeah.

We first read Of Mice and Men in school, and I've got a bit of school innocence for you here.

The teacher was reading the bit about the ranch owner's son, or was it the girl that the ranch owner's daughter was, the guy that the ranch owner's daughter was married to, the bad guy anyway, Curly in Of Mice and Men.

Yeah.

And him having this glove on his left hand full of Vaseline that he kept soft for his wife.