Paperback, 144 pages

Dutch language

Published March 16, 1979 by Wereldbibliotheek.

ISBN:
978-90-284-1258-3
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4 stars (1 review)

Van muizen en mensen is een klassieker in de wereldliteratuur. Tijdens de crisis van de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw proberen de dagloners George en Lennie het hoofd boven water te houden. Op het platteland van de Verenigde Staten trekken zij van farm naar farm, maar elke keer zorgt de zwakzinnige Lennie voor problemen die George moet oplossen. Op de volgende ranch lijkt alles goed te gaan, maar Curley, de zoon van de baas, is nogal opvliegend van aard. En bovendien kan Lennie zijn ogen niet van Curley's vrouw afhouden. (Source)

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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.