Well, I guess I'm probably on the minority when I say I didn't especially like this book. 
 I had to read this book for a novel study in English, and I heard a lot of mixed reviews from the people that read it last semester. However, on goodreads, I saw many, many, reviews raving about how wonderful and touching this book was. Unfortunately I didn't agree. I thought it was just okay. 
 For me, one of the major reasons why I didn't really enjoy the book was the way that they spoke. I know that it was written in 1937, but the dialogue just really annoyed me. For the most part, it was pretty easy to understand, but there were some words that were just really weird and kind of confused me. For example, they kept saying the word "pitcher". It took me ages to realize that it was their way of saying "picture". I don't usually mind this kind of thing in books when it's just one or maybe two characters that speak this way (ex. Hagrid in Harry Potter), but when everybody does it... it's just annoying. 
 Also, I sometimes found the book to be a little bit TOO descriptive. To the point where it bored me. In fact, I got bored throughout this book a rather lot. It would be very good and hold my attention, but then it would be really, really boring for a while. I actually fell asleep a few times whil reading this, and I wasn't even THAT tired. 
 Additionally, I had heard that this was a bit of a tear-jerker, but I didn't do anything for me. I found that to be kind of disappointing. I'm guessing it was the ending that people found to be really sad, but I don't know. 
 I do have to say that I thought the plot was really interesting and the characters were very well developed. I especially liked Lennie. Was it just me that found him to be hilarious though? 
 So, all in all, I didn't hate it, but I doubt I'd read it again. It had such potential to be a book I'd enjoy, but I just found to be quite boring at times, and the language they used was extremely irritating. 
 Honestly, I know a lot of people would probably hate me for saying this but I would love for somebody to make an updated version of this book. Leave everything the same, just change up the dialogue a tad bit maybe make it a little less overly descriptive. I feel that I would really love the book if it was like that. And I doubt I'm the only one who thinks so. Or maybe it's just me.