John Steinbeck - Sweet Thursday

Pros: colorful characters, interesting place

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: Steinbeck at his best!

Review: John Steinbeck's colorful characters and offbeat places come alive for his readers. In Cannery Row he presented us with a group of down and outs who wanted little more out of life than a good time and a stiff drink. A very entertaining book, but Sweet...

Pros: Amusing romance of a disappearing lifeway on the Monterey waterfront

Cons: Very predictable, sometimes seems condescending to characters

The Bottom Line: Whimsical but pointed tale of trying to arrange what others seem to need.

Review: The Swedish Academy awarded John Steinbeck a Nobel Prize for the intermittently poetic but desolate works like In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, and (I'd add) The Red Pony ...