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Originally Posted by issybird
The Pearl is skippable, but Cannery Row is key. IMHO, of course.
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Originally Posted by ReadingManiac
I disagree. I read The Pearl in school and I still think of it often. I think it actually got me into the Horror genre.
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I concur with ReadingManiac. I read the book in junior high school English class, and it has stuck with me. (In contrast to ReadingManiac, however, I was already a horror aficionado, having been exposed to the likes of such authors as William Peter Blatty, Shirley Jackson, and Edgar Allan Poe.)