I just want to bite John Steinbeck’s writing

It’s true.  I just finished Of Mice and Men, after hearing so many English teachers talk about it like it was old hat in the teacher’s lounge.  I cannot believe high school freshmen traditionally read this book… no one should read it until they are at least 21.  Not for explicit adult stuff, no, but not until you have lived on your own, got away from mom and dad, been in a place where you had no “fambly” like George Milton and Lennie, where you know that you come out winning when somone gives a “hoot” for you. That writing, when you can tell what time of day it is by the lines and squares and cracks of sunlight, when the stage was set after the first 3 chapters like that “rat trap” George points out, when everything is strung tight and you just sit back and watch it all happen… that writing was solid.