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Title: Light and airy, like this review
Review: Reading Cannery Row is a bit like eating cotton candy -- it's enjoyable, but it's a little too sweet and not very filling, and when you finish it you realize that there was a little more air inside than it looked like at first.The characters in Cannery Row are likable and, for the most part, believable, and some of the scenes are unforgettable. As I was reading, I did occasionally ask myself, "Okay, so where's he going with this story?" The answer, of course, is nowhere really, but the book is short enough and pleasant enough that it doesn't really matter.Of Mice and Men was for me a more meaningful and memorable book. While it extols some of the same values as Cannery Row -- friendship, trust, camaraderie -- it does so in a less simpleminded fashion, and its tragic ending makes it ultimately more poignant. When I finished Of Mice and Men, I said, "Wow!" When I finished Cannery Row, I said, "That's nice."
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