This book, like the Great Gatsby before it, impressed me with the amount of depth it could capture in such few pages. 
 The moral and ethical lines this book explores are incredible. While the language of the book is dated and is especially so when it comes to descriptions of the one Black character, its obvious that its written this way because of the time it was written in, but I believe it adds that much more profundity to reading it all these years later. 
 The story is about two working poor white men, who dream the American dream, but are so far from it its impossible to think that they can ever reach it. George and Lenny travel from farm to farm in search of work as farm hands and hope to same day own their own farm together. Unfortunately Lenny is mentally slow and incredibly strong and has a history of accidentally killing people. 
 I can't capture what makes this book so fascinating, but at 90 some pages, its definitely worth the read.