I loved the book up until the very end when it was no longer about the life of Jurgis Rudkus and all about Socialism. I felt towards the end I was reading an incredibly boring essay on the advantages of Socialism. The other 300 pages were great though. I enjoyed this book for putting a perspective on the life of immigrants during the early 1900s, for confirming that corruption in the United States was no different 100+ years ago. The Jungle made me appreciate the fact that even though my job isn't some place I'd like to be all the time, it's not even a scintilla of what people had to go through 100+ years ago. Read it.
