Favorite is too hard, but Steinbeck's Travels with Charley continues to hold a place on the list decades after reading.
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck made me appreciate the essence of writing, the lure of discovering America, and the sad lingering facts of our racism and hatred amid the beauty of our country.
This is superior Steinbeck—a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery.
The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.
