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A Quick Tip by ssjakira1

Oct 6, 2010

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Good up until a certain point - then the focus and feel of the entire novel shifts and sort of messes it up. But hey, as long as kids aren't working near meat grinders anymore...

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Quick Tip by cyclone_march. October 07, 2010

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Muckraking journalism at its best. You'll never eat sausage again.

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Quick Tip by JP_Rocky_Raccoon. August 26, 2010

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'The Jungle' is heartbreaking and in vivid detail brings home the injustice of immigrants arriving in America and living in squalor.

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Quick Tip by wordlover. July 17, 2010

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You will not want to eat for months after reading this but you will gain a vivid insight into the challenges of immigrants in American history.

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Quick Tip by NiceMarmot. July 16, 2010

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Brilliant and disturbing in a real way, "The Jungle, " will ensure your hesitancy to work in a meat plant... if ya, you know, ever wanted to.

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Quick Tip by SirNate. July 15, 2010

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Do not go into this expecting a novel. Expect a socialist pamphlet ever so thinly veiled with a story. There's never really any good commentary and the characters are very flat throughout.

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Quick Tip by ReisenJen. July 06, 2010

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really interesting look at an immigrant community that is often overlooked in history

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Quick Tip by cideon. July 02, 2010

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Depressing and shocking at points. Makes you happy that things have changed.

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Quick Tip by josheklow. July 02, 2010

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Maybe it would be wise to eat this on a day you don't plan on eating any meat.

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Quick Tip by h0mersimps0n. June 24, 2010

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This is the only novel I remember reading for high school English classes. And I'm a high school English teacher now! This story really nailed me with the systematic break-down of a once proud and strapping young man. Talk about a cruel world slowly crushing us.

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Quick Tip by ABRune. June 19, 2010

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Wow. This book was awful.

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In this powerful book we enter the world of Jurgis Rudkus, a young Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in America fired with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity. And we discover, with him, the astonishing truth about "packingtown," the busy, flourishing, filthy Chicago stockyards, where new world visions perish in a jungle of human suffering. Upton Sinclair, master of the "muckraking" novel, here explores the workingman's lot at the turn of the century: the backbreaking labor, the injustices of "wage-slavery," the bewildering chaos of urban life. The Jungle, a story so shocking that it launched a government investigation, recreates this startling chapter if our history in unflinching detail. Always a vigorous champion on political reform, Sinclair is also a gripping storyteller, and his 1906 novel stands as one of the most important -- and moving -- works in the literature of social change.

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