omg that book is so good lol i couldnt put it down when i started reading it

I'm the same way, I don't suggest starting anything written by Steinbeck unless you want the experience and knowledge from it. Otherwise you will claw your eyes out by the time you finish it. (Exception: Of Mice and Men)

Playboy is a lame magazine to be honest, although some of the comics are entertaining.

It's went way down hill since the 80's

Old man and the sea.
Bartleby the Scrivener.

Its bad enough that I had to read them once, but every year of High School I ended up having to read one or both of these.

oh come on! lol. Old Man and the Sea isn't that bad!

Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey, holy shit what a let down from a million little pieces. no clever dialogue, a million metaphors and all the characters development dies in the first paragraph. It made the Great Gatsby and that Western Front book i was spoon fed in high school almost bearable.

I really enjoyed the Grapes of Wrath. I didn't think it was boring at all.
The Red Pony was a decent book too.

brothers karamazov

This is on my list, I love Dostoyevsky.