false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171477039m/101205.jpg 101205 20 Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men, and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain creates a novel of acute social observation and devastating emotional violence, with a heroine whose ambitions and sufferings are never less than recognizable. 430403 1941 Mildred Pierce total:341|5:106|4:136|3:76|2:22|1:1| 341 1347 477 37 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 11:30:33 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 15:23:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 07 05:34:42 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 06:15:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Sep 04 18:06:40 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 04 18:07:47 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 11:04:46 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 16:49:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1978 Fri Apr 06 21:01:59 -0700 2007 Fri Apr 06 21:05:50 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:21:27 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 12:33:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 08:15:51 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 04 15:21:17 -0700 2008 Mildred Pierce 2.5 stars if I could: the writing is uneven and the characters are rather flat, but the story itself, about the Great Depression and social class is interesting.

Mildred is a memorably ruthless and pulpy character, endowed with fine legs, embarrassed to become a w...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 13:42:21 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 10:08:46 -0700 2008 Raymond Chandler, and most of the characters are relatively one-dimensional, but the plot and the depiction of pre-war Los Angeles -- specif...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978 Fri Aug 22 17:28:22 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 17:30:51 -0700 2008
Cain's an amazing writer, paving the way (...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 10:01:17 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 10:05:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 20:44:46 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 20:46:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 16:49:49 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 16:11:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:09:39 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 16:22:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 01:29:08 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 01:32:01 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 11:40:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 06:23:59 -0800 2008 2 0 false false Sat Mar 14 15:55:13 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 15:56:02 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Fri Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 11:59:28 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 25 15:07:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 19 14:20:38 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 11:18:23 -0700 2008
This has probably the most fully fleshed-out prose of any ...more...]]> 3 0 true false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 15:13:21 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 19:08:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Nov 19 10:49:59 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 10:55:19 -0800 2007 how can a writer with such a clumsy style become famous and sell many books ? the style is so distracting that i could barely read it. when i read great writers like thomas wolfe and william faulkner,steinbeck,hemingway, i can barely read people like cain but he s on my 100 best list so i h...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=101205