My Favorite Book

My favorite novel to read was The Moon was Down.  This novel had three of my favorite aspects: it was short, it was interesting, and the writing style was excellent.  John Steinbeck is a excellent author and I often find that I enjoy all of his novels that I take the time to read.  The first factor that made me like this novel was that it was short.  It was not unnecessarily long like other "classic" novels.  It was to the point and never strayed from the main storyline.  It was mostly short, but it was also very interesting.  War is always interesting because sometimes it seems so pointless.  There should always be a point if you are going to fight so much.  Thus, this was a reason that I was interested in learning more about the details of the story.  It was also interesting because there was more stories within the main story.  There was the story about the soldiers and the story about the civilians.  The variations of the story kept it interesting and kept the story different.  The varying different points of view was definetly a positive aspect of the story.  This novel was just in general very well written and a great pleasure to read.

I also enjoyed the writing style of Steinbeck.  He writes in a very to the point, yet descriptive way.  He did not ignore the emotions of the characters either.  He made what they were feeling very clear.  He portrays human emotion so well in his writing.  Steinbeck also knows when to stop writing.  He writes as much as he needs to, no more, no less.  This is a great writing skill to have because if you end up writing too much, it sounds like a run on story which is not enjoyable.  If you write too little, it makes writing vague and uninteresting.  Steinbeck has the artful touch on writing that makes him such a pleasure to read.