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My 11th grade English teacher always picked the greatest books to read. Cannery Row was on the roster. Re-reading it now and falling in love. I think that class was one of the reasons I decided to study literature. "Cannery Row...is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a dream."