East of Eden
I just finished this and can't really articulate why I loved this book so much but I was deeply invested in the outcome from the get. It feels pretentious to say that it is the human experience in a book, but hey. The character development is so intentional. The prose is just flowery enough. The language can be problematic at time (not a reason I liked it, just a note). Dragged my feet getting to this one because I had assumptions and you know what they say.
4 months ago
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East of Eden
Louise Buckley
“The writing is beautiful, the story is beautiful, the characters are beautiful. A deeply moving and layered generational epic. No book has stayed with me like this one, only Lonesome Dove has come close! My all-time favorite, I tell everyone I love to read it.”
taj
“a book about how human connection really work. and it is not what we do, but what we choose to be in the end.”
emily jane
“it’s rocking my world. come for the 19th century brothels, stay for the existential reckoning. florence is back and singing. mike faist is haunting me to my bones. chris abbott is serving heroin charlie from girls in a huge way. who knew john steinbeck was such a blue balled romantic? zoe!”
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