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Originally Posted by gmku
I'm not a Steinbeck fan either.
For whatever reason, I can't get into new "literary" novels. I have favorite old ones, many of them, but I haven't found many in the last 10 years or so that really fire my imagination. If I read new novels, they're usually in the spy/thriller genre.
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I wouldn't describe Steinbeck as being particularly literary. If anything he's looked down on slightly by high-brow types for being quite populist.