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Title: Read Cannery Row instead
Review: This book is lacking some vital essence. Maybe that was the author's point. I don't go into a book with the expectation that I will bond with the characters, but I do need a reason to finish reading it. (In this case, the reason was pure, dogged cussedness on my part.) While MuCullers gives us page after page of rich detail about her characters' thoughts, lives, and surroundings, she never pulls back to let us see the big picture of why we should care. Just about anything by Steinbeck is better than this book.
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