For the To Be Read pile...

[senoritafish]

I'm ashamed to admit I've never read The Log From the Sea of Cortez, although I have read a good many other Steinbeck books. Steinbeck's good friend Ed Ricketts wrote the main text for my Intertidal Invertebrates course in college, Between Pacific Tides. Ricketts was also the inspiration for Doc in Cannery Row. This article reminds me I need to get a copy of The Log...

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-steinbeck16jun16.story
Sea Change Since Era of Steinbeck - Retracing the author's 1940 voyage to Mexico, a group of enthusiasts finds a vastly different marine environment.

Suprisingly, in some places, it's better than it was more than 60 years ago.

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[poetpaladin.livejournal.com]

I think I was at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and got to see some of Ricketts' early instruments...

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

There's a restaraunt,I believe, where his old lab used to be.

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

*scratches head*

Unless I was forced to read Steinbeck in highschool so I don't remember, I don't think I have read any of his works before.

I am just a SciFi kinda girl!

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Me too, usually. However, if you live in California, especially anywhere near the Central Coast, he’s pretty much a historical and cultural icon. If you’ve ever gone exploring near Monterey or Salinas, with a Steinbeck book in your head, you can think, “Yeah, so that’s what he was talking about!” Monterey, at least, has changed a lot since the time he wrote about (very touristy and expensive, now), but many of the old cannery buildings are still there, since converted to restaurants and shopping.

Although, at the time Grapes of Wrath was published (about migrant farm workers), they hated him around there, for casting aspersions on the major industry. Now, there is a museum in his honor in Salinas.

It’s been a while since I read any – I liked Tortilla Flats, and Cannery Row, but I didn’t like The Red Pony so much, probably because the pony died.