13/7/10 - John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Quick read - only 100 pages. He didn't seem to need any more than that though. The characters are simply but beautifully drawn, and the story just seems so inevitable from page one. It is tragic and I was certainly pulled into caring for these people. I am not surprised it has been such an enduring book. I didn't bother reading the 400 pages of fluff around the story though.