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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1244)	5/7/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: Wizzer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Your post from Cannery Row, started me reminiscing about the great Steinbeck novels I read in grade school and high school. "The Grapes of Wrath", and "Of Mice and Men" were novels that affected me greatly. Steinbeck puts all of life in perspective for me. I have appreciated many other authors in the same way. Literature is a "chain" composed of many novels that "link" and complement one another. Each "link" creates a strength in vocabulary, and a growing appreciation and love of English. The interesting thing is that we all have different "chains" with some of the same and some different linking novels, but have reached the same conclusion about the English language. There are so many good novels I have not read and someday will catch up on them all. It may take a lifetime. Perhaps everyone reads this way, but when I read a novel, I am so absorbed in the vividness of the words that in my mind it is like I am watching a movie. I see all the actions and characters played out in my mind in such clarity, that I actually feel like I am a silent observer written into the novel. I was a member of the Joad family, in "The Grapes of Wrath, as they travelled on their perilous trek to California out of the dust bowl. I felt their pain, desperation and struggled with them in their ambition for a new life. In Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea", I felt I was sitting in the boat with the old man, unable to assist him, but encouraging him in his tremendous effort. In reading novels I feel excitement, thrill, anguish, vindication, elation, and many more emotions that all arise from type written letters on pages that are bound together, and written by someone I never knew. That is the component of reading that so many people need to experience.