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Product Review Summary: Sinners and saints Steinbeck's novel paints a picture of Cannery Row: lots of characters, beautiful scenery, that salty sea air, and some ladies of ill repute for good measure. This isn't a deep and life changing book, but I could read it once or twice a week and never get tired of it.
Product Review Summary: better than tortilla flat Cannery Row most resembles another Steinbeck novel, Tortilla Flat It focuses on one neighborhood has a group of rogues as main characters and the novel is episodic rather than linear in plot. The big difference is that Cannery Row who adds a depth to the book that the earlier novel did not have, Cannery Row is probably the least of Steinbecks masterpieces novels I consider worthy of five stars because it is more lightweight than the others but the novels emphasis on the need for community in a harsh almost Darwinian society is a strong theme to build a novel ans Steinbeck executes it well. His powers of description and dialogue are in top form as well but the book shouldnt be assigned to kids below the junior or senior year of high school.
Product Review Summary: My favorite Steinbeck story It's almost impossible for me to pick my favorite Steinbeck story, but if I had to it would be Cannery Row. It's as close to perfection in story telling as I've ever run into. If you haven't read it, please do. It's a quick read and used copies of the old paperbacks can be picked up for under a dollar here or at a used book store. That's a bargain for the opportunity to witness genius.
Product Review Summary: Yes we Cannery Man I love Steinbeck, love him!
This book was not a disappointment. It wasn't as much of a novel as a group of short stories with a thin novel thread running through it. It's like the Canterbury Tales on steroids.
The characters are all so interesting, almost each one has a chapter or two devoted to them. You could probably read the stories in any order, they're arranged chronologically but you could probably put them in a deck and shuffle them and come out with something unique and powerful.
This book is written about the period right after the depression but right before WWII, this time period was still considered to be in the depression but the economy was past the low point. Things weren't as bad as they were but they certainly hadn't picked up.
So I say yes yes yes read this book. it's a rewarding experience.
Product Review Summary: Still a good read My book group will be reading and discussing Cannery Road in August,2009. We have have decided to discuss a few classics this year and this was one of the books the group wanted to read. Having read it years ago, I am looking forward to reading it again.
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