Status Updates From An American Tragedy

Hooboy here we go. A true literary dagwood! The longest effort undertaken in a while. As I loved "Sister Carrie" I'm assumning In will love this. The first eight pages were good :)

In my desperation to finish this brick, I'm using all the tricks and tips I can devise. I see the GR page count is 40 pages more than the actual text of the book, so I am adding 40 pages to my "Currently on" page count. A mind game, I know. But this book is endless. This guy's writing style is even wordier than Wilkie Collins, another writer who didn't know when to just end the damn sentence and move on.

Still listening to Michael Ian Black read this classic work and we are getting toward the end. Dreiser is retelling the evens for the third time as the defense tries to liberate the prisoner. I'm really enjoying it.