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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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Jun 23, 2012 MichelleCH rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, fiction, 1001, favorites, kindle, buddy-read

Very few writers can bring you to the intimate level of familiarity and comfort with the people and times as Steinbeck. I could see, smell and feel Cannery Row. I have been a fan since The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden when Steinbeck first knocked my socks off.

In Cannery Row, Mack is the leader of a rag tag group of men who really don't mean harm but seem to inadvertently cause it everywhere they go. Much time is spent scheming and planning but not in a terribly malicious way, mostly they foc ...more

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

Shelves: literature, z-read-in-2012, tally-1001-books-list

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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