The past year of reading has been my favorite year of reading since I’ve been alive and this book has confirmed that.
Samuel Hamilton may be my favorite character in fiction ever. Steinbeck’s writing is beyond remarkable, so good you can feel in the writing even he knows it. I’ve laughed, cried, trembled in fear and felt hope and disgust within almost every couple chapters that would pass.
This book’s theme and parallel to the Cain and Abel story is so devastating that the final pages of the book had me by the neck. I went to bible school in my twenties, and wrestled with the idea of free will so violently that I genuinely feel this book has healed some of the religious trauma of my past.
Thank you John Steinbeck.
Timshel
by MachoMom