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To a God Unknown

De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
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Resumen del Editor

Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.

©2012 Penguin Audio (P)1933 John Steinbeck
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unbelievable book

incredibly sad in content but the ending I was in tears of joy. this is Steinbeck at his finest, as my favorite writer I was not disappointed. He achieved what he always achieved, which is complete crescendo of something truly higher and transcendent, but during the book it was quite sad, but it needed to be to bring that ending into view.

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Deep

This is a very deep book. Yet strikingly very simple. A must have. I think I will find a first edition for my house.

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Good work

Enzo is a very good story from the author maybe one of his best books

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Descriptions A+

This is my favorite John Steinbeck book. The descriptions of plant and land and animal are so drenched with feeling, I cannot shake it from my person. I carry this world in my heart

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Great story

Mr Davis did an excellent job with the characters voices and accents. I enjoyed this performance so much.

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Not his best

Been n a kick of about 7 Steinbeck books in a row. While he always paints brilliant pictures and is strong with character development, this one missed the mark for me. He’s normally great at building a hero, but here the hero seems more loathsome as the book goes on. It wasn’t terrible but just not up to par for him

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Pretty Fantastic

An interesting exploration of the pagan roots of Christianity and what has been lost through the demystification of the practice of Christianity. Decent narrator.

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An entrancing almost religious text

Around the same time that I selected Travels with Charley for my continuing introduction to John Steinbeck, I also selected To a God Unknown. Published in 1933, the book was Steinbeck's third publication (following Cup of Gold and The Red Pony). Despite not being one of the more widely read books by Steinbeck, the premise convinced me that I would enjoy it (more on this later).

I was not disappointed.


The Book
The short book follows the life of Joseph Wayne. A farmer on his dad's land, his desire for his own land leads him to California to establish his own homestead in a valley that suffered a drought in the not too distant past. Without being direct to even the reader, Joseph begins a strange relationship with a specific tree on his property. This relationship becomes something more when Joseph convinces himself that the spirit of his father has followed him to California and inhabited the tree.

In the midst of Joseph's strong connection to the land, his brothers and their wives move out to increase the family homestead. Joseph himself also takes a wife perceiving it to be the natural life-giving role for the head farmer. This obsession with the land puts Joseph out of sync with the lives of those around him and eventually, his "paganistic relationship" to the tree upsets his Christian family. Both of Joseph's obsession paint him as an enigmatic Adam and Christ type figure.

Steinbeck's own obsession with land is evident throughout in his glowing descriptions of it. Through Steinbeck, one can almost feel the anguish of Joseph in the midst of the book's trials. Along the way of this central theme, there are paths of love, lust, and sacrifice that interweave Christian and mythological symbolism. These disconnected themes come together in the final chapters as the full—perhaps even eschatological—scope comes into view. In retrospect, many of these themes reminded me of a thinner more precise East of Eden. As with East of Eden, I felt like the dialogue of the book was terse and wooden. Nonetheless, something about the tone of To a God Unknown made it less of a distraction.


The Audiobook
The reading of Jonathan Davis won't be winning any awards. The almost monotone reading of To a God Unknown fits the story but does little to liven up the wooden dialogue. Still, there is something ironically appropriate in the de-passioned reading of Joseph Wayne's own internal thoughts and conflict. While the experience was fine I look forward to reading the book on my own next time.


In conclusion, To a God Unknown was one of the more curious and disorienting books that I've read this year. Even looking back it is a strange book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and felt the entire book was made better by its conclusion. This is a book I want to own and digest slowly. I have high hopes that it will become one of my favorites.

Favorite Passage:

She cried as though in pain, “I tell you this man is not a man, unless he is all men. The strength, the resistance, the long and stumbling thinking of all men, and all the joy and suffering, too, cancelling each other out and yet remaining in the contents. He is all these, a repository for a little piece of each man’s soul, and more than that, a symbol of the earth’s soul.”

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The Message

I really enjoyed the delivery of this novel and how it properly encompassed Steinbeck’s style. It may seem similar in some ways to his more known works, but the message in this story felt timeless. I won’t put that message into words for fear of releasing the good stuff we readers want to experience first hand, but I will say that this book definitely has all of the attributes I search for in classic American literature and more.

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The best narrator

Kinda a weird one John I gotta say BUT this narrator is incredible! I hope to find some more

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