Sweet Thursday

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Favorite - Rated
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.

If you liked Cannery Row, you can only LOVE Sweet Thursday! - Rated
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 - Rated
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.