Of Mice and Men

Paperback, 113 pages

English language

Published March 16, 1999 by Heinemann.

ISBN:
978-0-435-12095-5
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4 stars (1 review)

George and Lennie are migrant American labourers. George protects his strong but stupid friend and shares with him a dream of one day settling down and farming their own land. Lennie will look after the rabbits and they will be answerable to no-one. Can the great American dream come true for this hopeful couple? --back cover

50 editions

Classics should be this short always

4 stars

I picked this up because I'm on a mission to read more of the books other people think you should have read. I hope it improved me in some way, because, spoiler alert, it has a sad end. And you can see it coming for the whole time. And I don't know what the answer is for Lennie and George, but they didn't deserve this.

It's good. It's tense, and anxious, and you're waiting for the other shoe to drop all the way through, and then when it does, you're simultaneously shocked and horrified, but also, not remotely surprised.

It's short, though, so there's that. And next time someone sends me a list of 99 books I should have read by now, I can tick this one off.