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Summary: California dreaming on Cannery Row
Review: Steinbeck's 'Cannery Row' is an endearing snapshot of the small community that sprung up around the Sardine Canneries of Monterey. Although far lighter than 'The Grapes of Wrath', Steinbeck's characters still have great depth and remain engaging.Doc, the head of Western Biologicals on The Row, is a complex fellow and, as such, is the lynchpin of the book. He has an essentially kindly nature, but also a mysterious, tragic air that holds your attention. His neighbours and associates provide the book's colour: Lee Chong, the shopkeeper; Mack and his hopeless, but well-meaning companions; and Dora Flood, enigmatic Mistress of the local brothel. Collectively, Steinbeck's likeable heroes and heroines make for an effortless and pleasurable read.
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Summary: A loveable book
Review: I just loved this book! The atmosphere is wonderful!
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Summary: The book I love Cannery Row By Steinbeck.
Review: Cannery Row is just a few blocks long. Within its limits are sardine fisheries which give the Row its name. The story that builds up around this area and the memorable characters who inbabit it is suffused with warmth,understanding,and a great grasp of human values.
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Summary: Best Steinbeck yet.
Review: Although some aspects of this book are typical Stienbeck, I found it particularly well done. The ideas creep onto the page in their own good time. Stienbeck's traditional bums and prostitutes are better seen when contrasted with a dignified but far from perfect doctor, an unusual and facsinating character.
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Summary: IT STINKS
Review: Boring plotless attempt at literature.
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Summary: A Great Change
Review: I chose to read this book for an English class not knowing a thing about it. I enjoyed this book. It was a great change from the boring materials that we usually read in school. The characters were great and occasionally I found myself laughing out-loud from the boys' antics. This is definately a great book to read on your lunch-break.
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Summary: For me, this is 5/5.
Review: At some 120-odd pages it's a quick read. I'm left with a jumble of passages and images tumbling around in my head. The entire book just sort of meanders through to its close in the aftermath of Doc's party, like a cat sniffing rather aimlessly through a patch of weeds, finding something intriguing here and there at which to sniff. Characters, homilies, ideas spring off the page to you at random, all somehow reflecting the languor and the madness and the divinity with which Steinbeck invests the players in "Cannery Row". If you can write a still-life piece (rather than paint it), this book is the benchmark!
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Summary: Great book
Review: Cannery Row is about a very strange community. Steinbeck uses wonrderful plot lines. I recommend this.
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Summary: Excellent - Quick Read
Review: Well Done - Steinbeck is a favorit
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Summary: Nice descriptions of Montery Bay area and little else.
Review: 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 story. The main focus is on the efforts of some bums to do something nice for Doc, a kind but lonely marine biologist who was apparently based on Steinbeck himself, but the book meanders from that plot line through stories 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 boring. And then in the end, you do indeed wonder what the point was. THIS is a classic?
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