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Title: A weaker sense of direction than a drunken cow in the fog.
Review: With this calamitous effort, John Steinbeck makes an effort to create an epic masterpiece. Unfortunately, his brushstrokes grow too large, and the panorama that results has too broad a scope. The book loses its focus in its ramblings, and, consequently, its significance. In the early pages you'll meet some characters who are possibly the most irritating, two dimensional elements in any work of fiction since The Scarlet Letter. However, this doesn't matter because Stienbeck will dump most of these characters in no time. Most of the characters live on farms except for the whores and the others. I personally don't live on a farm and am feeling somewhat depressed about it. Now look at that last section(From In the early pages to depressed about it.). It went absolutely nowhere. If you can find some way to stretch that little bit to the length of East of Eden then you'll have your very own masterpiece.
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