This book was boring. All I could manage was a chapter at a time, pretty much. Steinbeck has a way with words so it wasn't completely bad. The book just describes the setting and characters, there's no plot. Mack and the boys are unemployed but clever, resourceful men who live in the Palace Flophous...
Thanks to my previous read, Changing Tides by Michael Thomas Ford, I decided to re-read this novel. If you liked his works and your last John Steinbeck dates back decades, consider to re-read him. You'll surprised. I almost forgot how much I enjoyed John Steinbeck's prose - clear, strong, ingenious ...
This book is extremely difficult to review. I’m going to talk for a minute, then I’m going to post a pictures, and then I’m going to add a few quotes. Let me begin by saying that this book is almost entirely plot-less. It is a series of vignettes set on the hardscrabble California coast during the...
I watched the film version of On the Road the other night, and while watching it I couldn’t help but compare Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarity and their fellow beats to the inhabitants of Cannery Row, more specifically Mack and the boys from the Palace Flophouse. That is, there aren’t that many similarit...
Nutshell: lumpenproletarians engage local petit bourgeois in effective anti-sobriety campaign during 1930s great crisis.Opens with pregnant description: “When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and ta...
Cannery Row is like a View-Master™ of Steinbeck's best. You remember the View-Master, right? Anyway, in Cannery Row you get these glimpses of wonderful scenes, memorable characters, breathtaking settings, humor and heartbreak, but they're just glimpses, and they're all just a bit out of focus. It's ...
A beautiful novel in which the author had just the right amount of affection for his characters. This wasn't an adventure story with a single protagonist trying to attain a goal, blocked by a series of frustration, rather it was a description of a certain time, a certain place, and the community th...
Why did I take this book of my library's shelf? First of all, it's Steinbeck. There's no book of his that I didn't like up to this point. Second of all, he got a Nobel for literature after writing this one. That's one good reason for which to read anyone, Not just because they won a Nobel and everyt...
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