How much I like “Cannery Row”. Its one of those books that was almost ruined for me as part of a high school reading assignmen t, but I thwarted them by doing the book report out of cliffs noted and didnt actually read it until I was in my thirties.
Steinbeck does a great job of describing how well and how badly people can treat one another. Nice, also, to be able to read it at a leisurely pace.