Quote Originally Posted by Kes View Post
<i>The Pearl</i> absolutely ruined Steinbeck for me. I think that was the first book I really and fully hated. And it didn't help that I wasn't a huge fan of the film of <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> I watched.
No kidding. I've been adverse to Steinbeck ever since we had to read The Pearl in seventh grade. I think that was the only time I've been in an English class in which the whole class hated the book we were reading.

However, I did enjoy reading <i>Of Mice and Men</i> (though it resulted in the second worst mock trial I've ever participated in).
The witnesses changed their testimonies once they got to the stand! Everything they told us they were going to say got warped by the time they got up there and the entire case the rest of the prosecution and I had built was ruined!