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The bluffers guide to ...

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  • 11-08-2006 4:19pm
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    BossArky
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    Ok, picture this:

    A classy soirée, blacktie, champagne and prawn sandwiches. The conversation turns to literature. Your mind boggles as the rich and beautiful prance around rattling off their latest reads: classics, political, humour, philosophy, travel, science... the lot. You feel your chest tighten with nerves in the knowledge that "The Famous Five - Five go to Billycock Hill" is not going to help you climb this social ladder tonight.

    Well, fear not, this thread is here - an essential bluffers guide to those books you always wanted to read, or heard about but just never got around to yet.

    Try to keep the summary to five or so main points, short and snappy. This thread will more than likely contain spoilers, so be aware if you actually planning on reading the book in the near future.

    Let me start:

    The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

    - Tom Joad, released from prison having served time for killing a man, returns home to Oklahoma to find his family (farmers) have headed west to California, leaving the farm deserted.

    - The family like many others have been driven from their land and hear though leaflets of the money to be made in the orchards of California.

    - Eventually Tom reunites with his family in a road side squatters camp as he follows them west.

    - Everyone in the family is excited about the prospects of having a little white cottage in an orchard and picking fruit and having a great life.

    - The advertised jobs in the orchards prove to be few and far between, far too little for the many immigrants.

    - The Californians are unhappy with the influx of "Okies"(people from Oklahoma) and there is violence.

    - The older people die (grandparents) whilst the young fall in love.

    - As the family disintegrates Tom must step up to the mark and be more reponsible

    - A sad story about ordinary people living ordinary lives full of woe, that is somehow uplifting and written extremely well.


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