Thinking Back About East of Eden

I keep hearing people talking about John Steinbeck's East of Eden . I keep hearing lots of praise about it, and I keep thinking about reading it earlier this year and having to at times force myself to finish it. One of the things I've tried to do this year has been mix in classics in my reading. I read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley back in March and chose East of Eden in June as the 2nd in my…