The Grapes of Wrath
Sasha recommended Steinbeck to me and we had this book in our collection. What a great read! The language is so beautiful. I loved the short chapter on how the turtle walks through the field and crosses the highway.
The Joad family takes highway 64 in the book, starting from Salisaw to Gore. I looked it up on Google maps, and parallel to that old 64 is now... I-40, the highway I take to work everyday and which goes from North Carolina to California.
The speed on the highway seemed to be fairly similar to what it is today with a maximum speed of 65 miles per hour. Of course, the 'jalopies' did not make that speed.
Very cool that there is even a reference to the city we live in, or to be more specific to the tobacco that was produced here. Tom at one point says: "I wish I had some Durham".
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Re: The Grapes of Wrath
Have you looked at grabbing books from project gutenberg for your phone/laptop? Calibre reader on Linux is nice and can convert to various formats.
Was surprised to not find this book in their collection.
J
Re: The Grapes of Wrath
Yeah, I have.
I did that with The Brothers Karamazov (http://www.guusbosman.nl/article/2882).
But like you said there was no copy of The Grapes of Wrath on Gutenberg.