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Jesse Chen 4/22/09 Block E This book is titled Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck; the genre of this book is fiction. In the beginning of the book it starts off with an introduction of the riverbed in rural California and how it’s beautiful, while I was reading this I could imagine this picture in my head. During the beginning of this book Lennie and George was going to get their new job at the ranch where the story started and took place. When George and Lennie first arrived at the ranch they were late which made the boss upset because if you get late the first day at your job it leaves a bad impression for the boss. One of the characters that he meets first was Candy who was a handyman and had lost his right arm, and he was a nice guy that said the “boss is actually kind.” Curley who was the boss’s son had gotten married, but the problem with his wife is that she flirts with other big guys who Curley hates and Lennie is one of them except that he is stupid. At the end when the sad part was that Lennie was shot by George who I thought they were very close friends. In this book the characters were Lennie, George, Candy, Slim, Curley, and Carlson. In this book Lennie was a guy that was stupid because he was not as intelligent as George and in the other hand he was a better educated person.
 * __ Book Review: Of Mice and Men __**

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. His parents worked at a former school, and his dad served for Monterey County Treasurer. Of Mice and Men, one of his best works was basically written based on John Steinbeck himself and the old days where he worked at a ranch. What I thought of the book was that from the time I started the book and finished it every second of this book amazed me, what I mean is that I couldn’t really put the book down after I was finished because it was so interesting and amusing. When I was starting this book I believed that George and Lennie were really close friends, but at the end I was wrong because George had killed one of his good friends. After I read this I couldn’t believe how cruel George was, but I still understood why, but I could believe that he would actually kill his friend that came with him to the ranch. The reason that I chose this book was that the tile of the book looked interesting and it made me think that it would be about men and mice’s which now I think is weird of the way why I thought of it in the first place. As a reader I recommend this book to everyone because its good and interesting, and I believe that this book should be read by everyone including you.