false <![CDATA[Sister Carrie: a Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174984490m/465111.jpg 126609 100 Theodore Dreiser had a hardscrabble youth and the years of newspaper work behind him when he began his first novel, Sister Carrie, the story of a beautiful Midwestern girl who makes it big in New York City. Published by Doubleday in 1900, it gained a reputation as a shocker, for Dreiser had dared to give the public a heroine whose "cosmopolitan standard of virtue" brings her from Wisconsin, with four dollars in her purse, to a suite at the Waldorf and glittering fame as an actress. With Sister Carrie, the original manuscript of which is in the New York Public Library collections, Dreiser told a tale not "sufficiently delicate" for many of its first readers and critics, but which is now universally recognized as one of the greatest and most influential American novels. 2437051 book 1900 Sister Carrie total:3197|5:589|4:1108|3:1006|2:360|1:134| 3197 11249 4364 318 0 8 false false Fri Aug 17 05:36:34 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 10 07:20:48 -0700 2008 5 3 true false Thu Jan 31 20:29:34 -0800 2008 Sun Jun 08 16:17:58 -0700 2008
I just finished reading this one again. I first read it 7 years ago, and f...more...]]> 1 4 false false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 07:32:13 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 06:17:19 -0700 2008
Sister Carrie is a bad book. Not morally bad, unfortunately. That at least would make it interesting. In that respect, nothing in this ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 07:46:48 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 09:37:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 11 14:56:31 -0800 2008 Thu Jun 05 14:42:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 23 17:11:33 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 06 10:32:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 11 16:46:26 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 22:29:11 -0700 2007
He caught himself looking at her smiling and she was the very picture of youth and uprightness and the tendency toward productivity and mirth and joviality, ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Jan 11 12:11:51 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 12:11:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed May 20 08:34:47 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 08:44:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false true Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 06:14:24 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 06:14:24 -0700 2009
But what fascinates me about this book is how much "Amer...more...]]> 5 1 true false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 26 08:03:55 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 14:13:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 10:34:02 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 11:25:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 11 18:54:29 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 13:10:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 12:46:17 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 10:12:56 -0700 2009 Sister Carrie is one of a specific handful of American novels that I learned about in school, but (until now) never actually read. Along with those of Upton Sinclair, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Edward Bellamy and to a certain extent Stephen Crane, the works of Theodore Dreiser were always presen...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 19 13:19:07 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 13:43:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Jun 05 20:54:31 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 20:56:56 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Apr 14 09:25:45 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 09:26:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 10 10:27:38 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 10:27:38 -0700 2009
I'm not sure I read the book Dreiser wrote. I found the first half hilarious. Not unintentionally hilarious, and not campy hilarious, but genuinely hilarious. Dreiser is an old bitch, and has such contempt f...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 30 07:50:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 08:07:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 17:02:21 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 16:24:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=465111