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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished this first volume of what is a trilogy. <br/><br/>Dreiser is a master at casting accepted social mores into doubt by providing the reader with penetrating, unsympathetic, and objective views into his characters' thoughts and actions. He does this in so many ways. In this novel, one o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45956388">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up on the recommendation of possibly either Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky.  Not directly, of course, but because they wrote about it in something that I read that either of them wrote.  Despite a lot of heady and difficult to understand financial talk, its a remarkable story of the greed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79356014">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic piece of classic American realism. And really a must read considering what the financiers have done (yet again) to the U.S. One begins to realize that Goldman and Bear Stearns and AIG etc. etc. is an old old story. And one in which somebody always walks off with a whole lot of loot.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57548014">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Theodore Dreiser... Even though I don't really enjoy reading him at times, I can't stay away. This is the third Dreiser book I've read (The other two: The Titan, and Sister Carrie). I would certainly recommend Sister Carrie over The Financier, but I would recommend this book over its succesor, T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961830">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Dreiser, and it didn't really take off until Chapter 23 - but it's gripping from there.  I know nothing about finance, and next to nothing about the intersection of finance and politics, so I feel like I learned a lot from this (as in, I can now correctly(?) use &quot;hypothecate&quot; or &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61137108">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one I simply have to read again as it begins the famous trilogy of Cowperwood.  And sadly, my memory fails me, here.<br/><br/>I do remember that I was hooked; yet, there was an episode where Dreiser compared the ambitious young man to a 'lobster in a tank,' or something.  Not only was the met...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61101521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant, amazing, easy to follow but really meaningful! The story of a person how rules the world and keeps high profile even in the most difficult situations, when his life seems to collapse. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[plot is standard Dreiser - industrial era striving and ambition - decent intro to stock market speculation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Life strews its shores with such interesting and pathetic wrecks.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic. This is where Ayn Rand ideas started. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you know me, then you know I am completely retarded when it comes to anything associated with the financial markets.  This book, although written in the early part of the century, was eerily familiar to the headlines we see every day.  It helped me understand a bit more about the stock exchange. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/799655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as Sister Carrie or An American Tragedy.  But still pretty decent.  The end drags on a bit.  But if you're a fan of Dreiser's realism, then you won't be disappointed. I  want to check out his non fiction works...]]></body>
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