I see what you did there, Travels with Charley!!

I don't feel like I was being lied to or a need to go yell at Steinbeck like Oprah did to that author, which was funny by the way. After we all found out, I looked around the room and some of you had your mouths open, some of you looked mad, and some didn't react at all. I thought he was brilliant. It didn't seem like a trick or an "ah ha! gotcha!" move. It just was made for you to step back and really think about it. Who cares if he left stuff out or worked with what he had to create a good book? That's the important part. He might have met those people or experienced those things during his lifetime. Crafting all of them to fit into this scenario still takes some skill. And that's what we should celebrate. And honestly, whether we believe it or not, we do the exact same thing. When you tell stories, you can't tell me that you haven't crafted some part of it to make it a little better, no? Exactly. Let the one with no sin cast the first stone. Yes, I went there. But seriously, lets give Steinbeck a break and celebrate the fact that this still takes skill. He wasn't hurting anybody. He was just an aging dude who felt left out of the real and literary world. Ya can't blame him. He was good. He was good. Plus, Charley? Ah, amazing.