If you enjoy this book, I highly recomend oall of Steinbeck's other works. The most prominent are perhaps, "East of Eden" and "The Grapes of Wrath". "Eat of Eden" is an intimate and absorbing epic in the stricktest sesne of the word. The same description can be apllied for, "The Grapes of Wrath" except that I feel more humanity in "...Wrath". You understand and care and come to love these poor folks and Steinbeck doesn't hessitate to give you the truth about the ways of the world. Mind blowing stuff. Peraps the greatest writter of his time. Fuck Hemmingway or Faulkner or Fitzgerald. Steinbeck is easily the greater of the whole lot.