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This is the first Steinbeck that I've attempted to read as an adult. We had some brief flirtations during my teen years but never really hooked up. I think it was probably a wise choice. Now we've found each other as adults and can really appreciate each other's complexities and I can tell that I'll likely be making sweet love to Johnny S. for years to come.
Cannery Row is a really brief read that features some of the most concise yet descriptive writing I've ever come across. Set in a small stre ...more
Cannery Row is a really brief read that features some of the most concise yet descriptive writing I've ever come across. Set in a small stre ...more
Liked the main plot and some of the characters were real and likeable, but some of the vignettes felt a bit glued on. For some reason I just simply didn't like this despite its redeeming qualities. I don't know, everything just shuffled and the writing was very factual (the opening chapter was nice, though). This is by far the most different Steinbeck novel I've read, so if you want to try his works, you might not want to start from this one.
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"Little girls studying their catechism suddenly looked up and giggled for no reason at all." (p 148)
Amazing, joyful, funny. After the down-and-out migrants struggle through the Dust Bowl, Mac and the Boys "-the Virtues, the Beatitudes, the Beauties" (p 156) forge a utopian flophouse for themselves by the sunny gray waves of Monterey. Steinbeck's sentences do a lot of heavy lifting, and never break a sweat. ...more
Amazing, joyful, funny. After the down-and-out migrants struggle through the Dust Bowl, Mac and the Boys "-the Virtues, the Beatitudes, the Beauties" (p 156) forge a utopian flophouse for themselves by the sunny gray waves of Monterey. Steinbeck's sentences do a lot of heavy lifting, and never break a sweat. ...more
probably my favorite book
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