This is wonderful. I'd only ever read one book by Steinbeck, which was Of Mice and Men a million years ago in high school.

All I really want to comment on is how much Doc ate on his drive from Monterey to La Jolla. That's a 6-7 hour drive. Maybe highways were significantly different enough that it was a much longer drive back then? He ate 3 days worth of meals. I was dumbfounded reading it. Anyway, great book. It's so descriptive and there are so many wonderful artifacts from the 1930s and 1940s.

Lighting a water heater. Soap chips. Beer cans you open with a can opener. I could go on.