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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe I am actually trying to read this again.  This is an oft-flung book, which has fair aerodynamics and, the hardcover copy of which makes a satisfying &quot;thunk&quot; as it hits the wall.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a classic that I could read over and over again.  What a story!  If you haven't read it, you should!  The story not only captures the reader into the story, it gives you a deep sense of mans crazy nature. <br/><br/>I just finished reading this one again.  I first read it 7 years ago, and f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14234790">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the words of Edmund Wilson, &quot;Dreiser commands our respect; but the truth is he writes so badly that it is almost impossible to read him.&quot;<br/><br/><em>Sister Carrie</em> is a bad book.  Not morally bad, unfortunately.  That at least would make it interesting.  In that respect, nothing in this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30215407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Theodore Dreiser and Emile Zola are both in the naturalist camps of literature, and indeed, I found many similarities between Sister Carrie and Nana. The major difference however, is that Dreiser choses to lead Hurstwood, his formerly affluent male protagonist to a bitter, self-induced end in a flop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17433623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carrie's first vision of Chicago is something many of us experience on Friday nights while driving into the city, excited about whatever the night might hold.  The rollercoaster of hope and desolation coursing throughout the book was as much a part of life at the turn of the 20th century as it is at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1699197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sister Carrie is a deceptively good book. It starts out looking like a simple morality play about the evils of the big city but Carrie is no innocent girl from the country. Apparently Carrie's willingness to use people to better herself without any thought of the consequences caused quite a scandal ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12278092">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for my book club, and it's definitely one I would not have read otherwise. But, I'm very glad I read it. It's not one of the greatest books I've read and I didn't like any of the characters, but it was well-written, for the most part, and - I've learned - had a huge influence on Ame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8151099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>I would recommend this book to people interested in the concept of the city. Although its notoriety stems from its &quot;naturalistic&quot; depiction of the characters, I thought it was the depcition of the urban environment of Chicago and New York which stood out.<br/><br/>While the intertw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seminal American literature, and yet the simplest occurrence in Sister Carrie -- such as Carrie requesting meat -- reads like this:<br/><br/>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, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1862169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[[close:] 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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42693340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carrie is a small-town girl who comes to the big city, Chicago, to live with her sister.  She quickly decides that her sister's life is not for her (she'll have none of the life of a working girl) and succumbs to the charms and promises of a man she has met on a train.  Of course this man's promises...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56737270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't care for this book so much because I thought it tended toward pulp fiction. Although the idea of a dissolute woman materially succeeding may have been shocking for the era this book was written, in the present age I find it not so much. In fact, the behavior of the woman in question, Carrie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48983621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Sister Carrie</em> 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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69238927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The chapters that chronicle Hurstwood's decline were particularly hard for me to read, they were so terribly sad, and while the feminist in me reveled in Carrie's ascent to independence, the humanist in me was galled by her lack of feelings of social responsibility and the way she allowed Hurstwood ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56646165">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of those authors relegated to the category of dead white guys, which is a shame.  This book of the country girl headed to the big city is marvelous.  I should say that my favorite era of novels is American 1900-1940.  I like this much better than his more widely-hailed AN AMERICAN TRAGED...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20128819">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three stars and &quot;I will never finish this book&quot;? What's that all about?<br/><br/>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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59157274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, reading this was a pretty weird experience. Between this and my inexplicable love of Zola's trashiest (I may just go back and bump Therese Raquin up to five stars...yeah, I said it), I think I must have a real weakness for Naturalism. Dreiser is no Zola (note to Ted: Stop thinking your repeated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61619086">more...</a>]]></body>
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