Cannery Row
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California.
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Dull plotless attempt at literature.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I ongoing reading this book about six months ago. I got about middle though and then I stopped. I kept thinking I would go back and end it. But, alas, I am sure I never will. I just can’t get back into it.
O.K. I know. Published in 1945, this is a classic. Set in the 1930s in an area of San Francisco called Cannery Row, it’s supposed to depict the lives of some real people and a way of life that is no more. This is where the sardine canneries are. And this is where a bunch of enterprising “hobos” live in a makeshift building where their huge joy in life is drinking a lot of alcohol. They are drunk all the time or trying to get drunk. Sometimes they go into the countryside and bring back frogs for a doctor who is doing medical experiments, but mostly all they can reflect of is where the next drink is coming from.
I just didn’t like the characters. They seemed like they came straight out of a comic strip. Perhaps the book has some literary or past value. But I couldn’t find it. And that’s why I’m not preparation on finishing it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Personaly,I did not like the book cannery row.The book was not action packed enugh for me.The carectors were very dull and didnt have much meaning to their lives.The book also jumped arond a lot and i didnt like that because it took my consentration off the main plot of the tale and i got lost and it was very confusing for me.I though the auther needed to use a wider rang of vocabulary in the tale as well.I would not recamend this book to many people, it is nonsenes.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I had to read this book for school, and it was no fun. amspacherb@pgcs.com, I really didn’t laugh hysterically at the beer milkshake–I thought it was stupid. Sorry. Greg B. from CA–I’d have to agree with you. No plot, no main characters…the only excellent part was the poem.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Nice descriptions of the Monterey Bay area where the book takes place and very realistic characters is about all you’ll get from this work of Steinbeck’s. What’s missing is a tale. The main focus is on the efforts of some bums to do something nice for Doc, a kind but lonely marine biologist who was rumor has it that based on Steinbeck himself, but the book meanders from that plot line through tales about a Chinese grocery man, a quasi-French painter, a slightly bats housewife, a madam and her suicidal pimp, among many others. The only thing they really have in common is where they take place. They are all largely dull. And then in the end, you do indeed marvel what the point was. THIS is a classic?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5