Books: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

Rob: Novel

Rob: A man looking at reality brings his own limitations to the world. If he has strength and energy of mind the tide pool stretches both ways, digs back to electrons and leaps space into the universe and fights out of the moment into conceptual time. The ecology has a synonym which is ALL'

Rob: What an amazing little book, I loved the characters and the way Steinbeck writes is fantastic - it's beautifully phrased and Steinbeck describes the scenes and characters so vividly.

It was very hard to put down and I never wanted the story to end.

Rob: http://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html

Rob: It was a gift from FindLikeMinds Co-founder, Andy. Having seen my influence profile he thought I'd like Steinbeck. It was one of the first of many FindLikeMinds moments - You can read more at the blog http://blog.findlikeminds.com/

Rob: Cannery Row was published at the end of World War II. Steinbeck said he'd written it for a group of soldiers who had said to him (he was a war correspondent at the time) 'Write something funny that isn't about the war'.