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The Red Pony
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Oct 14, 2016
bookshelves: reading-challenge-2016, classics, favorites, tragedy, bookstagram-review-done, john-steinbeck, american-classics, done-and-dusted, 5-stars-read-absolute-favourite, american-authors, page-count-50-100, short-classics, published-in-1930-1939, nobel-prize-winners
I read "of mice and men" of John Steinbeck long time back. I immediately fell in love with him & I never stopped after that.
I pick up a book of John's once in while. What is so special about John, you might ask? John wrote beautiful tragedies. Heart wrenching, goose-bumping & tear jerking tragedies & I'm a sucker for tragedies. Big time.
John won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic & imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor & keen social perception."
Coming to the book- The Red Pony is story of a young boy Jody & his pony Giblan & life on the ranch. I won't go much into the storyline but Let's just say that it isn't all rainbows and unicorns (well in this case pony) in Jody's life.
John's writing is so vivid & pragmatic that you can imagine yourself with the characters- Becoming a part of their lives - living their life on ranch, experiencing their pain & joy, hurt & happiness yourself.
If you have read any John Steinbeck books, you will know John's worlds in the books are painfully "Real"- cruel and brutal. There is death, betrayal, sadness and bitterness. John in his crystal clear prose shows the world to us in its naked gory reality. He shows mirror to the world through his stories leaving it bare.
I'm not going to sugarcoat anything, this one like all the other works of John has the mishap, the cataclysm as the center theme. Red pony is about a boy who learns to grow up through his loss, exploring a bond shared between a man & nature with complexity of it.
Yes I would still recommend it, coz even though there are two sides to this world both beautiful and ugly, sometimes facing the dark ugly side of the world is the option you need to choose.
“It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.”
I pick up a book of John's once in while. What is so special about John, you might ask? John wrote beautiful tragedies. Heart wrenching, goose-bumping & tear jerking tragedies & I'm a sucker for tragedies. Big time.
John won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic & imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor & keen social perception."
Coming to the book- The Red Pony is story of a young boy Jody & his pony Giblan & life on the ranch. I won't go much into the storyline but Let's just say that it isn't all rainbows and unicorns (well in this case pony) in Jody's life.
John's writing is so vivid & pragmatic that you can imagine yourself with the characters- Becoming a part of their lives - living their life on ranch, experiencing their pain & joy, hurt & happiness yourself.
If you have read any John Steinbeck books, you will know John's worlds in the books are painfully "Real"- cruel and brutal. There is death, betrayal, sadness and bitterness. John in his crystal clear prose shows the world to us in its naked gory reality. He shows mirror to the world through his stories leaving it bare.
I'm not going to sugarcoat anything, this one like all the other works of John has the mishap, the cataclysm as the center theme. Red pony is about a boy who learns to grow up through his loss, exploring a bond shared between a man & nature with complexity of it.
Yes I would still recommend it, coz even though there are two sides to this world both beautiful and ugly, sometimes facing the dark ugly side of the world is the option you need to choose.
“It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.”
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Reading Progress
July 13, 2016
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July 13, 2016
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to-read
October 13, 2016
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Started Reading
October 13, 2016
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reading-challenge-2016
October 13, 2016
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classics
October 14, 2016
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favorites
October 14, 2016
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tragedy
October 14, 2016
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Finished Reading
June 11, 2020
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bookstagram-review-done
June 11, 2020
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john-steinbeck
November 30, 2020
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american-classics
January 19, 2021
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done-and-dusted
May 10, 2022
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5-stars-read-absolute-favourite
September 21, 2022
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american-authors
September 24, 2022
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page-count-50-100
October 17, 2022
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short-classics
October 17, 2022
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published-in-1930-1939
October 20, 2022
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nobel-prize-winners
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Dec 25, 2020 04:09AM
If you ever visit Monterey, California, take a little side trip inland to Salinas, and visit the National Steinbeck Center. The exhibits are amazing - I learned so much. And you can top off your Steinbeck collection in the gift shop. It's also an opportunity to drive around a get a feel for the beauty he saw in Central California.
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Brian wrote: "If you ever visit Monterey, California, take a little side trip inland to Salinas, and visit the National Steinbeck Center. The exhibits are amazing - I learned so much. And you can top off your St..."Thanks for letting me know. John Steinbeck is my favorite author and I just love anything written by him. I will differently visit if I come to California in future 🙂
