Sweet Thursday (Penguin Modern Classics)
£3.49
If you liked Cannery Row you ll enjoy this one too. - As other reviewers say, this is probably best enjoyed as a sequel to Cannery Row. It shares the same setting and the same collection of likeable losers whose best intentions have a habit of turning out wrong.Sweet Thursday is gentle and - compared to some Steinbeck novels - quite light. It is certainly not lightweight though. The dry wit, the standard of characterisation and the clever choice of words all make for an enjoyable few hours reading.
Favorite - Of all the books I ve read of Steinbeck this one is my favorite. I think the case is that this one express life in the fullest. It gives a true reflection of the ups and downs while at the same time conveys a sense of joy even in the hardest things and struggles in life. Highly recommended, but read Cannery Row first for sure.
Lazy, thoughtful, mellow fun - You needen t be familiar with Cannery Row but if you are, most of the same characters are back. The sleepy, run down Californian Town of Steinbeck s youth are brought back in this wonderfully mellow piece of mood writing. No plot synopsis will help you in deciding whether to buy this book, the criteria are these: If you are looking for the gut-wrenching power of Grapes of Wrath, leave it alone, if you are looking for the skilled bitter-sweet moodiness of East of Eden or Cannery Row, this is for you.
If you liked Cannery Row, you can only LOVE Sweet Thursday! - In my opinion John Steinbeck is the most forceful, most truthful, most gentle and most loving storyteller available to the reading public. If you ve read Cannery Row and enjoyed it... Sweet Thursday is pure joy and evokes just about every emotion, like real, immediately. You live the story with everyone in it, it s not like reading at all (except when you come to the end of the book!). If you d like to read a book for pure enjoyment - just to have fun (except when you ve got to cry because the pleasure s too painful) - this is the one. Anyone, who mostly likes people, can t help but love this story and all it s characters.Just my opinion, but I HAD to tell you!
Feel-good follow-up to Cannery Row - I still remember my delight as a teenager when I discovered there was a follow-up to Cannery Row. I wasn t disappointed on reading it, neither have I been disappointed on several re-readings in the years since then.Sweet Thursday is filled with the same places and characters (with some sad departures and some memorable new arrivals) as its predecessor, but the themes and feelings evoked are very different - it looks at Doc a lot more closely, exploring his character, the loneliness of his middle age, and his progress along the path to true love, with the questionable assistance of Mac and the boys.