Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

If you've worked in Mental Health you are sure to appreciate this.

I liked it! It was a pretty good book. It held my interest!

Seen the movie and read the book. I like that the movie stays quite close to the book. A nice book about friendship and tragic too. George has the difficult task of looking after Lenny a large, child-like man who is kind of on the slow side. Lenny is a good person but does not know his strength. they go from farm to farm and try to earn a living and have the dream of having a small farm of their own some day. Lenny gets himself into trouble near the end and george and Lenny must run away. has a sad ending. asks the question of what would you be willing to do to protect a friend?I felt bad for George and the decision he had to make at the end.

To me, this short novel (takes 1 day to finish) packs tremendous amount of materials to make you ponder. I think many have overlooked the morality issue presented in the story because they haven't had the experience to relate.

It's a great story with a heart-breaking ending about a friendship between two men looking for work in the 1930s, one of them being mentally disabled (with a soft spot for little animals).

I actually haven't read the book, but the film is pretty good actually.

ewwww, steinbeck!

Heartbreaking!!!

I read this book as a child and again in high school then again in college.. I own it in my personal collection at home. I love it. It is simple yet elagant. Lennie's outlook on life and George's love for Lennie.. I think everone should read this book!

A must read.

I did enjoy this book as a teenager (teenagers seem to view every issue in terms of moral absolutes), but it hasn't aged well for me. I think Irishgit described it best- a simple and simplistic morality play. Exactly. The older I get, the more I learn that life can seldom be seen in the context of black-and-white simplicity. I have come to see life as more nuanced, more complex than I used to imagine it, more unpredictable, and I tend to appreciate authors now who reflect this ambiguity. Steinbeck isn't one of them, at least not for me.

It's not as confusing as Grapes of Wrath, but it's plot is more boring and its substance, well... there isn't any.

A classic tale of man's pursuit of the utopian dream that seems to elude us every time you near it. Lovable characters. A must read for all who love the classics.

It was an okay book. read it in grade 10 English. It was a weird book though. I can guarantee you one thing, I will never read it again. I think that this book is unimaginative and uninspired and has absolutely no interesting plot to it.

A simple and simplistic morality play.

Depressing, dark and boring period piece. Nothing redeeming at all.

I read this book last year and I still haven't forgotten it. I laughed. I cried. I cried for hours after I finished that book. George had to kill Lenny, but he was like a child. Poor Lenny :(!

the book sucked. it was terable waste of paper and certainly a waste of my time. it was boring, not gripping and uninformative!

The idiots that post on this site are amazing, as they evidently read books or plays after seeing the movie version and end up preferring the film. A sign of intellectual impoverishment, diminished imagination, laziness, a weak gene pool and a fondness for eating lead paint chips as a child. Steinbeck generally sucks as a writer, but this book isn't too bad. This is lit light, but a prime example of the modern fable.

This is a good book. It's much better than Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."

I read this book in my english class and I really Liked it. The point wus so realistic. Many people did not understand why geroge did kill lenny. I thought it wus the right thing to do because he actually let lenny die happy and got to him before the others could. He saved lenny from all the tourture he would of went through if curly would have found him. I also saw the movie. I liked the book better though it wus more discriptive.

Always loved this. Perhaps because it unearths some of society's secrets?

This book is easy read for people who want to read a book at home in a short period of time. It was entertaining, but sad at the end. I remember laughing out loud because some parts were funny, oh Lenny.

A great movie but a better book.

This truly is a classic tale of friendship, love and ultimate sacrifice. The way George and Lenny stuck together through everything and how George protected and defended Lenny all the time showed his true dedication to their friendship.

Simply classic. Fun and engaging. Moving and in the end I was truly left in tears.

John Steinbeck wrote a marvelous novella when he wrote Of Mice and Men. He does a good job of using foreshadowing at the beginning of the book. He makes the reader care about the characters and feel sorrow in the end.

Although Steinbeck and his book Of Mice and Men particularly is hailed by most as a wonderful writer of literature, I did not enjoy this book as much as I could. It is well written, but I could not bring myself to become engrossed by the story itself. The characters (Lenny especially) are interesting in an intellectual way, but elicit little true empathy from me as a reader.

A beautifully orchestrated discussion of morals adn ethics. As philosophy under the guise of fiction, this story will move you and inspire you to reevaluate the way you keep your entire life.

Funny story with a strong message. Lovely characters which makes you cringe on their hopes. I love the ending.

I liked this. It would have been better if it were in present tense and not way back in the day. Lenny was the coolest character.

I had never cried from reading a book until I read Steinbeck's classic. I read the 102 page novel in about an hour. It's a timeless story that will be around for a long time. You learn to love the characters George and Lenny and understand there actions.

I found the subject matter to be interesting. I am interested in the interworkings of people's minds. The book played on my sensitivity toward people with disabilities, but that's what drew me in.

I read this book mainly because I had fallen in love with the 1992 version of the movie(with Gary Sinise and John Malkovich). This is one of those few situations in which the movie is better than the book. It's an easy and quick read at under a hundred pages, and Steinbeck does an excellent job of capturing the setting of California in the 1920's, but the story is far more effective when you see it onscreen.

This is a beautiful story of friendship. The characters have amazing depth. The book is short yet the parting with them is painful when the book is over.

Of Mice and Men's characters are practically archetypal in our society. The small, quick man paired with the great, kind hearted child has been repeated in many variations. What makes this book remarkable, however, is all the other themes Steinbeck works in. In addition to friendship, we have the American Dream, a Brotherhood of Knights, racial tension, ageism, and power structure. This book is the only one consistently rated high by my sophmore students.

I loved this book. Lenny is a character you will always remember. Easy, fast reading. Historical Monterey area- I know all the places they are talking about.

By far my favorite Steinbeck book, with memorable characters and bleak twists of fate that remind me almost of a Jim Jarmusch film.

Short, powerful view of America's West in the 30's. Compelling characters, quick-moving plot, and inquisitive.

Life doesn't always have happy endings. Life is not fair. We would do well to remember that and know there is beauty in all things. Beauty and tragedy.

Another book that's called a classic, but falls short of expectations because of its limited plot.

This is a fantastic novelette. The image are powerful, the characters compelling, and the narrative gripping. If you think that he 'misses the point', perhaps you ought to move on to the Curious George section of your local bookstore.

A very simple yet touching story of a friendship between two men, one of them a simpleton of huge stature, the other a small man of regular intellect. The language, plot and even characters are very basic, but Steinbeck still manages to reach into the hearts of his readers.

Steinback has wonderful images, but I don't necessarily think he gets to the point.