I don't know why but any time I try and read a book the information just goes in one ear and out the other. But if I listen to to someone else read it to me I understand it more and actually quite enjoy it.
😮😥 Schools of today dont give a shet about teaching youth to read or be able to calculate numbers. Reading and Math bring success in life. They WANT Americans illiterate, uniformed via history books etc. This isn't funny, it's sad.
A non-american reading this for a book club meeting , and although I could have read the book directly this audio version is beyond incredible ! The narration, the acting , even when I read passages on the paper version I read them in the tone of this narrator because he impacted me this much , listening to this is a wonderful experience and adds so much to an already great classic !
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@@elliott9973 Thank you very much, this is exactly what I needed, you gave me enough motivation to where I have now graduated college with a masters in physics and have started a booming career, all because of this comment
I just finished reading this while listening to the audiobook for school, and I never once thought that I would cry from a school book. Thanks John Steinbeck. You really touched my heart.
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As an undiagnosed dyslexic person this helps a ton, my school won't provide me with audio books because I don't have the papers to prove my dyslexia so this helped me a ton, thanks.
@@alinajune8652 How would you think if Lennie was alive, stayed innocent his whole adult life, kept killing anyone in his way, and had not been taken care of well by George? Now. that would've been insane.
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Thank you so much for sharing this, I loved the narrator's accents and tone !! What a wonderful book! I am from Portugal and learned about it in an episode of family guy 😂 I thought it seemed very interesting and I loved it!!! Thank you again for sharing ♥️
i love how so many ppl (including me) are using this audiobook bc we all procrastinated reading it- BAHAHHAHA but in all seriousness this is a great reading, love this guys voice acting and accents. very very nice.
frrrrrr like george, candy, and slim all knew he had the mind of a child and didnt fully know what he was capable of doing so like one of them shouldve just watched him and taken shifts.
Hanna Curlee I’m going to have to disagree with you there. 1) the wife was completely misunderstood she wasn’t provocative she was just extremely lonely cause she wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone and 2) she didn’t know about lennie accidental killing animals because of getting frustrated she thought he was fairly normal so how on earth would she have known freaking out was going to make him even more stressed? Lennie was the only person that didn’t treat her like she was a slut so she felt safe around him. That’s why she she felt comfortable having lennie touch her hair in the first place
Nadia Karamat she compared him to a baby But she knew he had the strength to ruin curlys hand But also knew he ACCIDENTALLY killed a puppy, he didn’t table his strength She also kept calling him crazy I pity her but it was also a bit of a fault (Lenny’s too, and honestly George for not teaching him to be gentle)
Hanna Curlee all of that is true yes but she couldn’t have possibly have completely understand that he was truly mentally disabled and couldn’t comprehend what to do in that kind of situation. I think it’s George fault for leaving him alone and not teaching him what to do in those situations but I really don’t think it was her fault
Only a handful of readers ever impressed me.. This ok boy reading is for sure one of the best. It was my pleasure and. A True delight to listen to this man do his craft. Thank you .... 😎
@@samanansamam2734 , im so sorry i didn’t take notes😭 maybe you can search online for assignments on the book or something or detailed summaries or something
In the first paragraph, Steinbeck uses adverbs and adjectives to convey exactly how the nature is in that point of time. Some examples would be: “deep,” and “green.” The use of these two words together show how the water in the river is moving, “running” if you will... if you won't, for any reason, that’s ok too. In the next sentence, Steinbeck uses the adjectives: “warm” and “yellow” separately, using warm to express how the water’s temperature is, ie. It could be cold, but it is not, it is warm, not hot, not room temperature, but warm. Meanwhile using “yellow” to describe how the sand is, it is not green, blue, red, orange, purple, pink, brown, black, white, grey, silver, or bronze, it is yellow!
The effect of this is to make the reader truly feel that they have accomplished something and now they have some new knowledge about how the water moves, what its temperature is like, and how the colour sand it ran across was like.
ok. this is a nice analysis, you’ve got the basic points right. however, you use lots of unnecessary phrases/ words and it’s obvious you’re trying to make your word count higher. for example; you don’t have to list all the colours - that’s irrelevant as you’ve already used the quote “yellow”. similarly, the tangent about the temperature is pointless when you’ve used already the quote to describe it. also “if you will... if you won’t for any reason, that’s ok too.” what? that doesn’t make sense and you don’t need to say that. furthermore, you’ve quoted the word “running” but that word wasn’t used, it was “runs” i don’t want to be rude but the whole part about it the effect on the reader makes no sense. to be honest, where you’ve used so many words, i can’t really tell what you’re trying to say. i’m really sorry and i know this is harsh but i felt like i had to say something.
a different way of analysing it would be: in the first paragraph, steinbeck uses adverbs and adjectives to convey the liveliness of nature. This is done through describing the river as “deep and “green”. combined with the verb “runs” this makes the river feel alive as “green” is associated with life and “runs” shows it’s moving quickly. furthermore, the sand is described as “yellow” which has connotations of being energetic and happy. This pathetic fallacy makes the reader feel excited, as the river is being shown as alive and compelling, setting up the rest of the book.
Thankyou so much! I could imagine the whole story in my head like watching a movie. I love how you make the voices distinctive from one another for each character and the tone too!
@@areweliveyet9907 I'm 25 now but in high school in 2012 almost everyone hated reading. Idk how it is now. I think it's stupid when the older generations shit on the younger generation cause not every kid is just on tik tok all day
@@davidzshitI'm in high school now. a lot of my friends like reading but I hate it. this audiobook really did make this book much more bearable. Also I agree. It definitely is a pain in the ass when people group me in with the bums who don't give a shit about school. I like school, just reading sucks.
@@kozynthetaquito5506 you might like it later, you just have to find the right book. If I were you I would listen to the audiobook pimp by iceberg slim. Very harsh to listen too but it will show you how crazy stories(true stories) can get. It's about a pimp in the 1940s. I just turned 27 and I seen so much shit that by the time I'm 40 I might right a book myself. You'll see what I mean once you graduate
Here is a useful tip: Turn it up to x1.25, it will be quick at first, but will get slower in a minute or so. Then turn it up to x1.5, also will be quick at first but will get slower in a little over a minute. And then I get to x1.75, which eventually becomes the perfect speed!
I love Steinbeck. Maybe having to analyse stuff to a deadline kills some of the magic of it but if kids can't appreciate on some level what an amazing story and set of characters they've got here, then there's something wrong with them.
thank you so much, i had a report due on this today and i didnt read it, set is x2 speed, finished listening in 2 hours, and turned in the report on time!
I'd listen to George Guidall recite the alphabet. He's the GOAT. But to listen to him read Of Mice and Men is without comparison, the most memorable narration of all time.
Definitely the audiobook I have enjoyed listening THE MOST !! The accents were great, your voice really brang Lennie and George's story to life This video helped me to finally read that classic in a day and even if I'll definitely need a bit of time to recover from that story, I am SO HAPPY I did!! Thank you! 💚
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Oh my gosh this is a life saver. I have to read this book for an assignment but every time I try to read it I end up zoning out or getting bored and frustrated
3:18:38 we scared our teacher because the way he said "I've done a bad thing" was funny and she was concerned because she's never had any students laugh at the death scene before: quick note it was practically all of us
Fantastic piece of work and a true classic. I cried at the end for the first time in a long time. I've read a lot of novels and usually the longer ones hit me harder, but not like this. Great things sometimes come in small packages. Thanks, John. ❤️
Great book! I have a brother that's just like Lenny. OMG I've got my hands full just like George. Well now I can feed my worms, relax and listen at the same time. My cup runneth over!
I'm here because someone elsewhere said this book was about Dust Bowl immigrants and I didn't think so. Having never read it I thought maybe I should learn what I'm talking about. In context I was right; he was talking about Grapes of Wrath.
I just ran across it. I've seen a coupla or three film adaptations -- might have even read the book decades ago. But I have never been so deeply moved by this classic -- hats off to the narrator. And of course to John Steinbeck. I had just finished a three-day listen of Stephen King's "The Green Mile" when I began "Of Mice and Men," which I finished in one afternoon. "The Green Mile" was quite enjoyable, but when I started Steinbeck, I felt like I had stepped into an open meadow after days of whacking through a dense jungle with a machete. I guess that's the distinction between a good writer and a great one.
The old man and his old dog was really sad, too. I think Steinbeck might have been drawing a parallel between that dog and Lennie. And the whole theme of people with big dreams always just beyond their reach is soul-shattering.
Idkwhat made me think about this book but back when I was a sophomore in high school in 07 or 08 I was listening to this book on tape in my high school English class and just died laughing at this guy's southern accent. I was laughing so hard and uncontrollably that the teacher thought I was on drugs. I probably hit the bong that morning, but it wasn't the green that had me laughing that day. good times
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This shit made me cry when they shot the dog and when they shot lennie, and it was sad when the old man candy was like “then-it’s all off?” man just wanted his own place for once, they all did.
This guy is the best audiobook reader I have heard. He gives a unique cadence to each character, and seems like he’s really into the roles and how they’re read. Well done.
