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Melanie Feaster _elanie_easter — I am almost embarrassed to admit that I really liked this book! I was not expecting much, after both my daughters told me that they hadn't liked it. While I was at Borders, , during their 60% off sale, I saw the book, and knew the title sounded familiar, so I bought it. After bragging about it, I found out that neither had enjoyed it. I decided to look at the other reviews of it on Goodreads. Again, lots of negative things were written about it. But - oh well. thank goodness we all have different tastes. this is the story of Courtney, who lives in LA. On the first page, she wakes up - and finds herself in someone else's body - and in this other person's era. She is now Jane Mansfield, living in Jane Austen's England. And yet, she has the memories of a California girl. Needless to say, she has to learn how to behave in a different time period. I just found the story funny and fascinating - and I loved the whole time/space limitations question - can we actually exist in two places at the same time???? anyway - it was a quick fun read!

Carolina Serna _arolinasr154d — This author captures perfectly a soulless cosmopolitan perspective that is devoid of any real human spirit, a kind of materialism that transcends actual materialism. People as objects. Experiences as collector's items. One's life not just as a brand, but a very chic one. The uncanny and constant undercurrent of a self-awareness of the emptiness of it. The jealousy and yearning that that runs through the book is the same kind you might feel in a Manhattan boutique, where you don't know exactly what you'd actually buy, not even one individual thing, but you long for everything in the store, and the aesthetic it represents. It is hard to know what kind of experience would change the perspective of the people who inhabit this world, because it’s all there already, children, art, all of it. Realizing this makes it impossible to ever see how the characters in this world could escape it. My uncle and I once talked about how watching people you don't care about be miserable is the worst kind of movie, and this book is 100 times worse than Revolutionary Road in that regard. The book itself is clearly a piece of currency in this world, and on my shelf it feels like dirty money.

Christina Peabody christinapeabody — I am really getting into Steinbeck, "The Pearl" was disappointing if anything but along with "Of Mice and Men" I see Steinbeck as one of the big classic names that really does something for me. So far he did not completely blow me away but he is positively capturing me, shouldn't be too long until I try his biggest "Grapes of Wrath", I am kind of excited about that perspective. Now trying to pin down what I liked so much about "Cannery Row" it comes down to the writing, I love his prose, within a couple of sentences he got me hooked on his characters. It has a strong short story feeling, each chapter telling you another little tale yet there is a continuous thread needling it to a very sweet, honest and humorous novel. I think something else I liked about it is its Americanism, it has something of that Californian movie vibe, not the big Hollywood glamor but the smaller, more truthful yet very American Indie films. As a foreigner and now resident who for a long time observed the USA on the screen only that does have a certain appeal to me.

Jonathan Azeredo jonazeredo — In the same lines of Mike Gecan's Going Public, Cold Anger tells the stories of another community organizer, Ernie Cortez, in south Texas. Not as great on the theoretical aspects of organizing, this story is told through a third party; an observer who spent time with Cortez and watched him in action. While there isn't the intensity of Going Public, Cold Anger is another great primer in community organizing.

René Götzenbrugger rgoetzenbr181a — Not literature, but Flagg can weave a great yarn. Quick enjoyable read. Loved it from cover to cover.