The Good Earth

A friend of mine recently lent me this novel by Pearl S. Buck. At first, I was not interested. I think I even rolled my eyes. This was definitely a school reading list book and I hate those. Normally. Maybe it was because I haven't been in school for a while. Or maybe it was because I recently found myself unemployed and with a lot of time on my hands. Whatever it was, I really enjoyed this read. The story was simple. The words were simple. I was sad when I finished. I wanted to keep reading about the land and the earth. I had developed the same passion for this seemingly simple thing as Wang Lung. I saw the importance and the complexity that his sons, in the end, did not. In a world in which movies don't hold our interest unless at least three things blow up I found simplicity in a book...and I liked it!