The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural facts. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.
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But still a excellent read. If you are an aficianado of Steinbeck you are gonna find few less delightful than this one.
The writer’s additional works from that period, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday are the Steinbeck masterpieces, in my opinion. Reading this one is all about filling in the gaps between readings of the major pieces of the Steinbeck puzzle.
On the additional hand, the Steinbeck lover, if he’s right to the passion, will wish to read them all. This one will tell you much about Steinbeck as a young man, which makes it worth the fee of admission.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
steinbeck’s darwinian novel that captues a sense of adventure as well with his excellent friend. there may be a need to be interested in the science of animal classification to really delight in this book.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Buy this book and read the first part: the part about Ed Ricketts. Then read a chapter or two, from anywhere in the rest of the book. Then you’re done. Steinbeck’s tale of his dear friend Ed is as moving a memoir as I know of. This is Steinbeck at his best–the prose is crisp and compelling, and salted with tangible things of the world. You are taken to Monterrey and to Ed’s lab. You feel yourself present as the two followers drink beer together, surrounded by water specimens. You feel the like that the two men felt for eachother–two eccentric intellectuals living in a town more concerned with squid than Shakespeare. You sense from Steinbeck that Ed was a right brother and that he could see himself in his friend. It is a marvelous, fleeting piece, perhaps 80 pages in all. As for their journey to the Sea of Cortez? A windy tale, ruined by machismo speculations on life, evolution, boats, people, and the scenery of things. The depictions of Mexicans are just dreadful, drawn from a real distance, and written from an ignorant and gringo point of view. Take the book for what it is, a creature in two halves, one lovely and right, the additional a rambling set of notes better left unpublished and unread.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The Log from the Sea of Cortez is certainly a classic book. I read this book years ago before I travelled down Baja California. Things have changed momentously since Steinbeck traveled to the area. I noticed it was missing from my library and chose it was a certain re-read – and keeper.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
With WW2 kicking off, Steinbeck, who was trained as a marine biologist, cruises Baja. The spirit of the book, particularly in the context of the time the events occurred, the brilliant writing and narrative, made for some of the best reading in recent memory for me.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5