A review by koberreads
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0


This is well-known for copy the plot of Cain and Abel story. Twice. Within the story

But this story, although much longer than the Cain and Abel story in the Bible, this story is all the more compelling and more fruitful with the morals you can learn from here than that story in the Bible although you can see this story as a lengthy explanation of the profoundness of the wisdom with the Cain and Abel story.

Timshel

Remember that word always.

We all have wickedness in us, if you dont like calling it "evil", but we also have a choice to overcome such. We always have a choice.

You always have a choice, never ever feel powerless over whatever evil we have inside us.

This is no wonder a stoic book, the most famous one, is mentioned later in the book being read by one of the main characters "Meditations" by Marcus Aurileus

Evil is innate and inescapable part of each of us. We have the darkness or the black pool inside us


Despite our innate darkness, we still have a choice whether we want to overcome such evil or not. If God does exist, he gave us a choice to overcome evil or sin. If God does not exist, we still have choice whether we chose we behavior that develops us and those around us or choose  the destructive kind. 
Remember that chapter from Robert Greene "Law 9: Confront your Dark side - The Law of Repression", that we should not try to eradicate or remove the darkness within is because it is impossible. It is part of our human nature, we can only "chose" to channel it to something prod


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It is done

damn

Note there is topics about sex here and prostitutes and brothels that create s business out of them but no sex scenes. Just light scenes that they are about to have sex or had sex but it never becomes graphic sex. I prefer that in a literary novel, So I can focus on the plot, the characters and the moral it tries to expresss. 

If you want to be horny and pleasure myself through exotic scenes in a book, read fifty shades grey or watch porn

This book is not sexual as others warned me it to be.