The first book I read that I didn't need a teacher to tell me "the big picture"

"But I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed--because "Thou mayest."The first time I read John Steinbeck's East of Eden was when I was a junior in high school. I read it over the summer, and it took me quite a while, and when I finished it, I just felt so accomplished. Accomplished because it was well over 700 pages, and...

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