Never too Late to Read Classics discussion

The Wayward Bus 352 pages
Published in 1947, his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath.
An imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads. Transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future.
It was the basis for the 1957 film starring Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey and Rick Jason.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America 288 pages
The novel details Steinbeck’s 1960 cross-country road trip in his pickup truck Rocinante (named for Don Quixote’s trusted steed) with his stately and consistently endearing French poodle Charley at his side.
Steinbeck proceeds across the country, he begins to re-acquaint himself with the spirit of America – to compensate for the fact that he, a self-described “American writer…writing about America,” was “writing of something [he] did not know about.” This is a novel of rediscovery, of bewilderment, and ultimately of hope, as Steinbeck’s trip takes him through a country he wants to feel, see, and know in his heart again.

Are you up for a Travelogue or a Novel of Fiction? Which do you think you might pursue this month?

Travels with Charley: In Search of America is good-entertaining and informative.

It's a tough choice - but I think I'll go with Travels with Charley: In Search of America.

It is a tough choice John!
Not sure which way yet I will go.

I have seen the Wayward Bus movie with Jayne Mansfield a few years ago.

Lesle wrote: "It is a tough choice John!
Not sure which way yet I will go.

I have seen the Wayward Bus movie with Jayne Mansfield a few years ago."

I suspect I'll be unable to resist reading both!

I'll be reading Travels with Charley: In Search of America sometime this month.

I read Travels with Charley: In Search of America a while ago & enjoyed it.

I finished Travels with Charley earlier this month and I loved it. What an amazing adventure, and I love Charley and his ‘Ftt’s’, brilliant read.

I’m reading Travels With Charley right now as I travel by train. I like Charley’s Ftts too, Georgina!

The Travels with Charley was a delightful reading experience for me.

Travels With Charley was indeed delightful. I loved reading Steinbeck's narrative about the United States during 1960.

Still have this on my side table to read. I think Im on chapter 3 from what it looks like.
This October and November are rough to add in quiet time with the Election.
I was caught up for a bit haha!

The Wayward Bus is a mixture of personalities most I did not like. I found them irratating mostly.
No real plot to the story just Steinbeck's characgter description that kept me interested.

Years ago I watched the movie version of The Wayward Bus. It wasn't a memorable film but I remember that it didn't have much of a plot, and I was confused at times, but then I was in high school.
I've just read To a God Unknown and don't know what to make of it. It was weird and had some very strange events and unpleasant characters. Overall, I'd say it's my least favourite work of Steinbeck's.

And Travels with Charley: In Search of America is my favourite!

It is not a favorite of mine either. If it wasnt for it being a combo book with East of Eden, I would donate the book.