I've been reading a lot of John Steinbeck on the train lately. I just started Totilla Flats today. At the begining of a lot of these books they have a forward or an essay by an academic type. Usually I skip past and get straight into the story, but I for some reason I thought I'd read this one. I'm not knocking the guy who wrote it as he posed some interesting questions and ideas, but he started going on about the tragic ending and what eventually happens to the main character.
Why would you do that at the beginning of a book when you're introducing a novel someone is about to read for the first time? I think I'll go back to skipping forward.
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