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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
My grandson told me his teacher assigned Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Seeing his surprise when he learned I didn't know the ending that's "been parodied thousands of times", I told him I'd never read the book. He then asked me if I'd like to, and after checking the Kindle store to find they want $8.99 for the Kindle edition, I said sure and he loaned me his library paperback. After careful smelling of the paper (because I'm told people like these things for the smell), I dove right in. Very powerful book that I deeply recommend. Very unlike The Grapes of Wrath, even though written by the same author using much the same backdrop.
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It was dramatized in a 1939 movie with Burgess Meredith as George and Lon Chaney Jr as Lenny. The ending is very powerful.