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What do you know! Sweet Thursday was just what I needed. It was "sweet" indeed. We find Doc, Mack and the boys all just returning from the war and finding their world has little in common with the one they left behind. Cannery Row is a shadow of itself, Chong is gone and the Patron has bought the store, there is a new face in charge at the brothel, named Fauna.
Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a little wind that ruffles the curtains ...more
Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a little wind that ruffles the curtains ...more
I had three hours left of this nine hour audiobook, and I was still not enjoying it. But I persisted. This is one of those books that it takes a while to warm to. By the end I cared for some of the characters (not just Doc, but Fauna and Hazel too) and there was some humor that made me smile. It has a "cute" ending. How do you rate a book that for the most part bores you but then at the end it turns for the better? By the end I liked it, but not in the beginning and not in the middle either! It
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I am so glad I read Cannery Row before this, because I would not have understood the story. Cannery Row took place during the Depression in Monterey, California, and Sweet Thursday took place after WII. I liked Cannery Row, but I liked Sweet Thursday better. Mack and his band of misfits are back and so is Doc, the endearing scientist that everyone in Cannery Row treats like their local family doctor.
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