blaze

**doowopgirl** · August 7th, 2009

is it just me or does blaze have a very strong feel of steinbecks 'of mice and men'? not that it didn't have that special twist, but the feel was still there?

**bryras** · August 7th, 2009

That is the reason why I liked it as much as I did.

**JohnDalglish** · August 7th, 2009

Hi,

Aye.

Quote from 'Full Disclosure' (The introduction) p4 UK HB. (Footnote #11) -

'And, of course, it's an homage to 'Of Mice And Men' - kinda hard to miss that'.

Long days and pleasant nights

**michal** · August 10th, 2009

JohnDalglish got the words out of my mouth, so I'll just dumbly repeat them. Yes, it does and very intentionally so. But I find the SK version somewhat darker. Or perhaps, just very Kingish.

**Micke** · August 10th, 2009

Originally Posted by doowopgirl

is it just me or does blaze have a very strong feel of steinbecks 'of mice and men'? not that it didn't have that special twist, but the feel was still there?

I'm with you on this one. I did a book report on this book and I did bring up that Blaze had many parables with "Of mice and men".