Read on the Kindle, after seeing the stage show at the cinema featuring James Franco and Chris O'Dowd.
How come you haven't read it before? Well, in my day, the English Literature O'Level focussed on British Writers, like Charles Dickens, so I suppose I never got round to it.
Two things surprised me.
1. The stage play stuck almost word for word and scene for scene to the book.
2. The book is very short, which in fact lent very well to it becoming a stage play.
Obviously a classic like this needs no introduction, and no review, but just as a summary. George and Lennie are manual workers; they travel together taking agricultural jobs. Their dream is to one day have a farm of their own. George is the pragmatic one, and Lennie is childlike in his mental capacity and character, but tall, broad and strong physically. Arriving at a ranch, George and Lennie settle in, and meet the inhabitants, including the one handed Candy, the pugnacious Curly, and Curly's flirtatious wife. Needless to say, this book does not end happily.
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