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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

John Steinbeck

Start date: March 1, 2007

Finish date: March 1, 2007

Why we're reading this: I loved this book. It's a sad book but the characters are so rich and wonderful.…more
[close] I loved this book. It's a sad book but the characters are so rich and wonderful.

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Mar 21, 2008 Stephen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Just re-read this as I couldn't recall much of it from when I read it in high-school. It's a bit like a west coast version of the Walton's with better writing. The novel itself doesn't have a real strong storyline so my youngerself was not very impressed but the individual poratraits that are painted and the times that are sketched are well worth the reading time.

Despite it's being set in depression era California, Steinbeck said in interviews that his Moneterrey years were some of the happiest ...more

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Jun 28, 2014 Kathy McC rated it it was amazing

This is Steinbeck showing a less intense writing style. This novel is not plot driven, but the character development is true Steinbeck. Characters just trying to play the hands they were dealt and live as best they can; each searching for the happiness that always seems to elude them. I loved the inhabitants of the Palace Flophouse and Grill and appreciated the compassion of Doc.

"..the Ford of Lee Chong chuckled and jiggled and clattered happily as though it knew it was working for a man who lo ...more

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