@Jiminez Okay :-) Considering i’ve yet to read that book i’m sending you – think i’ll just send it, with the amount of other reading that’s worked its way ahead of that on the fluid mental to-read list – to put too much pressure on yourself for anything beyond your desire to read it would be quite unfair.
Oh! Since i just finished it, & it’s terribly awesome (well written, but didn’t fall in love/deeply relate to the characters the way it was with the Dispossessed), would you like me to throw in Grapes of Wrath with it? It being fiction, and illustrating both very prevalent economic/political/social forces and the much more ethical philosophies that naturally grow as a reaction to them, it seems you’d quite enjoy it.
@VzzBzz For some reason, Tom Joad (jr.) didn’t do it for me, even tho he, Ma & somewhat the preacher were my favorite characters. Think it was because he, first of all [spoiler – DON’T READ if you plan to read the book] killed without regretting it at all – wasn’t damning for his character that, in the situations/anger, he did that, just his only reaction really was, ‘couldn’t help it, no bad feelings towards the drunk guy with a knife’. [/end spoilers] And secondly, as lovely & inspiring as his unsquelchable rebelliousness was, there wasn’t enough vulnerability or tenderness to him to really even develop more than the very slightest literary crushes on him.
ZOMG! – we should have a book-group-like discussion about it! (either now or eventually)