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Summary: The migrant workers
Review: ESL- PAOLAM.
George and Lennie are best friends. George is small and quick with a dark face and Lennie, a huge man who has a mind like a young child. They are always with each other and they are like a family. They have a dream to buy their own place from farm Laborers.
They also want to save their money but they have some troubles in their lives. This book is interesting bacuase the story is about two people who are always with each other. The book teach us about friendship and loneliness. I recomMend this book because you can learn a lot of things.
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Summary: MAGNIFICANT
Review: This book is easily one of Steinbecks finest works. A wonderful glimpse into an era and the lives of people that's hard to imagine in this day and age. The characters are rich and fascinating and I was left wanting to know more. If the book has any real flaw it is the length. It was too short
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Summary: Steinbeck's best book!
Review: What a wonderful novel. I am a big fan of Steinbeck's writting, and Cannery Row is by far my favorite of all of his books. After reading this book you will just feel like giving "doc" a big hug. Cannary Row has everything, passion, romance, morality and humor. This book makes you wish you were back in "the good old days" and living on cannary row with doc and the boys.
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Summary: An Eden for those rough around the edges.
Review: I loved it. I love the idea of a place where you can bruise your knuckles on someone's skull without fear of a reprisal drive by shooting; a place where you can go on week long benders without fear of liver damage or DUI's; a place when you decide when to work and when not to. I loved it so much, 'cause there ain't no place like that 'round here.
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Summary: Great writing, full of heart, passion, humor and sadness
Review: If you love great stories filled with heart, wisdom, a love of people and a love of life, this is a great place to start. Steinbeck pours a lifetime of experience into this book of lovable, all-too-human characters. Forget all the postmodern garbage out there,this is fiction that makes you feel alive.
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Summary: Life is like a box of chocolates.....
Review: Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are going to get. that is definetly true for this book. i was expecting to read another boring high school book, but was sweep away and left with a new understanding of life and a better idea of what to look for in the never ending pursuit of happiness.
"Cannery Row" has the most life like characters ever to jump off of paper. trying to understand the characters is rather impossible until you understand that the characters are real people looking for the same things as you and me. The most successful character of the book is the Doctor, he has money, a good job, and plenty of work to do, however the author chose
to make this character the least happy. the authors favorite
characters are the hoboes. Jobless and broke with nothing but life and each other the hoboes ideals and values put me in touch
with whats really important in life. this book is great i hope you like it and come to realize that having nothing is having everything.
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Summary: a portrait of small-city life
Review: i have to admit that this classic has sat whiling away the hours, days, months and years on my bookcases, being shuffled from bottom shelf to top shelf, shifted from the section of favorites to the area for classics. it's been shipped in a book-rate parcel box overseas and has traveled three continents on commercial airliners, and i've kept it on at least four different home furnishing items. however, none of this was due to its own merit. in fact, i had never even read this short, poignant novel. it had accompanied me far and wide merely because it came in a double edition published in the eighties with 'of mice and men.' that was the chance occurrence that finally led me to read this book. i knew that someday the californian backdrop would draw me to it at some time when i needed to be reminded of home while far away. that is exactly what happened, and the book served its purpose wonderfully in that sense. it is a quaint snapshot of depression-era california, when having a wild party was the utmost expression of rebelliousness. the novel includes characters from many walks of life, with a notable emphasis on the unfortunate bunch along cannery row: the jobless, prostitutes, pimps, factory workers, fishermen, the homeless, a chinese immigrant. and this unlucky crowd is only offset by the seemingly perfect Doc, a local savant who has 'made it' by opening a laboratory which sells small animals for experimentation. though he is so utterly different from his fellow citizens, their lives become entwined with his to a certain extent, and life on cannery row can be seen as a sort of microscopic version of society as a whole. perhaps what is so heartwarming about the place portrayed in the book is that this society works so well, despite all of its flawed members. everyone is forgiving, understanding, caring and so apparently human on cannery row, even if they are living in a rusty old pipe on an empty lot, getting drunk and sleeping with glamourless hookers or pinching every penny to get by...
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Summary: So-so
Review: This book is very much like a Hemingway book. A story about people interacting with each other, but containing no real plot. Just a tale of people's lives. Cannery Row probably has a strong appeal to English teachers and historians of the Great Depression and surely Steinbeck has many themes and symbols woven into the book that would appeal to to such types. But strictly speaking of entertainment value, this is not a book that produces any great anticipation and lacks any exciting development. I'm sure I'd enjoy it more if I read about the deeper meanings hidden within.
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Summary: Sentimental Journey
Review: Like a lot of Steinbeck's work (or at least what I remember of it), this fictionalized tribute to the small California coastal town of Monterey is sentimental to its core. Of course, in this instance, it's understandable, since the book is a very thinly veiled portrait of his friends and town, especially the central figure of "Doc", who was based on a good friend of Steinbeck's. It's a very human book, one that is less concerned about relating a story and events, but is rather about people and community. There's the wise biologist "Doc", who supplies animals to labs, the ... with hearts of gold and their madam Dora, the Chinese grocer Lee Chong, the wild French artist, and of course down and out Mack and the other well-meaning bums who may be broke and unemployed, but are never homeless as long as there's a vacant lot. No one is wealthy, and people aren't always happy, but one gets the sense that it's a good place to live. There's a lesser known sequel to this (which I haven't read), called Sweet Thursday.
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Summary: This book was my home away from home
Review: Few writers can weave a plot with random, seemingly unrelated events in one setting and yet something about the book still touches a part of you, no matter who you are. Steinbeck did just that in Cannery Row. In Cannery Row, bums with the hearts of angels unintenionally cause mayhem, a good-natured Doctor reflects on life as it is for all of us, for we all have had some expierence like that the Doc's. The main characters are loveable and warm people, and Steinbeck's wonderful description puts you right on the quiet streets of Cannery Row, puts you in the shoes of a Chinese clerk, in the shoes of a lonely man, in the shoes of respectable whores. There is a little piece of everyone's life in Cannery Row.
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