Rating: 
Summary: enjoyable, "lighter" read
Review: i enjoyed this book thoroughly. Like "Cannery Row", I found it to be pretty light hearted, although it did tackle some more serious issues at times. I enjoyed the broad spectrum of characters, i especially thought all the women at the Bear Flag Commune were hilarious. This book was really short, and i finished in a few days tops. Overall, i would recomend this to everyone, especially those who really enjoyed "Cannery Row", for this is a worthy sequal.
Rating: 
Summary: Only worthwhile sequel ever
Review: I had heard about reviews of this book and most of them were pretty awful. I was a bit skeptic considering it was a sequel because I didn't think the message of love, happiness, and understanding of Cannery Row could ever be beat. I was mistaken. And I'm glad I was! From just reading the introduction, I knew this book was going to be something special. After reading the book, I can only look at those people around me and smile. I smile and think to myself, "Thank God we have these people to live with." Otherwise life would get pretty dull. The only advice I have left is to order you to read this book. You won't be sorry.
Rating:
Summary: A Worthy Sequel
Review: I had read Cannery Row in college and loved it so much that I could never read this book. One day a friend of mine left it behind and I started to read it. Two hours later, I was back in Steinbeck land, laughing at the antics of the Cannery Row
gang. What a glorious sequel. The lost art of the novella was resurrected in these two books by Steinbeck.
Rating:
Summary: Required reading!
Review: I had read Cannery Row several times before I got my hands on a copy of Sweet Thursday. I was skeptical that a sequel could possibly live up the epic greatness Cannery Row and I was worried that Steinbeck would somehow ruin the wonderful characters of the "palace flophouse." Sweet Thursday is every bit as magical as Cannery Row. The new characters are beautiful and the old characters are so expertly polished that they shine brighter than ever. The book picks up the lives of the Row characters a few years after the events of the first book. Steinbeck masterfully chronicles the rise of an unlikely hero as a frightening crisis threatens the Western Biological Supply. The only mistake I ever made was seeing the movie based on Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday. It was horrible - a crime against Steinbeck.
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Summary: Bravo Jonathan
Review: I have just read some of Jonathon Williams reviews. Pretty wild stuff, no he does not write your average book reviews and usually has nothing to do with the book he is reviewing. BUT, he colors out of the lines, he writes what he feels, what memories the book stirs is the direction he goes. I want to congratulate Amazon on their courage to support such a forum. I want to congratulate Mr. Williams on his bravery, his soul and his willingness to share his life experiances.
I have Mr. Williams marked as one of my Amazon friends, and look forward to his next review.
Bravo Jonathon
PS Jonathon, are you married? Write me here on Amazon, Wilma Stoughton
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Summary: STEINBECK IS THE BEST
Review: I read Sweet Thursday before I read Cannery Row, before any other Steinbeck novel actually, and then proceeded to devour everything else he wrote. Steinbeck and Graham Greene are 2 of my favorite authors. Character development is rich and the story itself is reason enough to read this book. YOu will read everything else you can by him if you haven't started to already!
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Summary: gripping comedy...
Review: I read Sweet Thursday in my undergrad days and I remember sitting up all night to finish the novel. Steinbeck is an intelligent writer, and one has only to roll his words in the mind, over and over again, to get their full import.
Doc epitomises the secret fantasy in every man's mind to be the average man but with above-average ideas. Living in this world, yet supremely unattached from its petty temptations and puny ambitions. Doc tries to pick up his life in the post-War society with changing priorities and prejudices. He tries to tackle issues with his "archaic" set of values and morals and gets confused in the process. The reader feels almost relieved to identify with Doc's confusions, in the novel. With the meeting of Suzy and Doc, the mood of the novel changes to tantalizing hope and expectation. It is a happy novel, with wonderful 'hooptedoodles', that serve as apparent distractions but in the end complete the whole picture of Doc and his mates of Cannery Row.If I ever write a novel, I would like to write one like this.
Rating:
Summary: best book I've ever read
Review: I've read this book around 30 times I think since I first found it in High School (30 years ago!) it never came into focus completely until I read the introduction to *Sea of Cortez* about Ed Ricketts. If you never read another book by Steinbeck, read this book, and the prequel *Cannery Row*. I won't spoil it for you... if you don't love Marine Biology before you read it, you will by the end. And you might even find out something about that mystery we call love.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent sequel to cannery row...
Review: If you liked Cannery row, this is a lesser known
sequel to it, and it is a MUST READ. It is good Steinbeck reading even without having read Cannery Row, but you are cheating your self out of all the tasty character building and incedents
in the first book that serve as foundation for
Sweet Thursday.
Rating: 
Summary: Not anywhere near the original
Review: It seems like Steinbeck tried a little too hard to be witty, too hard
to be philosophical, too hard to be human and sweet. What made the original
Cannery Row so enjoyable was its relaxed style and atmosphere. This book
is fun to read, but still is coerced. I guess sequels never do work out . . .
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