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Dan is on page 279 of 859 of An American Tragedy
Dreiser is so good at describing peoples inner worlds and their feelings and motivations. He so aptly describes the insecurity of lower social class. He reminds me of my own resentment of the arrogance of the successful.
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An American Tragedy

Dan
Dan is on page 222 of 859 of An American Tragedy
The longing for status and the woes it can bring! The importance of status in America is unique. The claim that it can be attained by anyone in America is supposed to be unique. It is so untrue.
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Dan is on page 115 of 859 of An American Tragedy
There are lot of similarities to Sister Carrie in this book.. Ahhh the enticement of material comfort, the illusory promises of status, the beguiling manipulative ways of the fairer sex and the perils that the pursuit of such desires can lead one to! These are the themes.
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Dan is on page 50 of 859 of An American Tragedy
I like Dreiser's writing. Sometimes his run on descriptions are a little much and his Jersey accent seems a bit off but I love it so far.
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Dan
Dan is on page 37 of 859 of An American Tragedy
Hegglund from Jersey City sure talks a lot like Jim from Huckleberry Finn! Not so sure that Dreiser has the best written interpretation of the jersey accent.
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Dan
Dan is on page 9 of 859 of 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 :)
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An American Tragedy

Dan
Dan is on page 19 of 217 of A Scanner Darkly
After reading a bunch of Twain this is fun and fast reading...thus far
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A Scanner Darkly

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Dan is 71% done with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I wonder what MT would think about our flawed democracy and the fact that it elected someone worse than a feudal lord. I also wonder how he would feel about the true outcomes of free market capitalism and its unforeseen consequences (climate change, oligarchy)). He'd definitely be a Bernie Sanders supporter methinks.
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MT pointing out that intellectual work for those capable is usually if always a pleasure and richly compensated. Manual work is toil. Tradespeople who say they love it after 30 years are rare, and they get paid squat.
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"Education can do so much!" So true MT.
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MT refers to the quest for the holy grail as "gone grailing" . Hilarious.
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MT destroys the Roman Catholic Church lol and its contribution to class inequality. Also I thought he might have miscalculated using wire for his second wizard's spell but wire did exist then!
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This is so much more pleasant to read than ol Pudd'nhead Wilson! MT is so clever. His writing so absorbing and fun!
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Dan is 30% done with Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)
Every character serves a purpose to the end of exposing the hypocrisies of mankind and mocking the small mindedness of some humanity?
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (Bantam Classics)

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Dan is 99% done with Roughing It
Interesting that Twain never mentions the Donner party expedition in this memoir. I'm sure he was aware of it that it was known to him?
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Roughing It

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Dan is 68% done with Roughing It
"And I think that to one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, is the loveliest" Yes MT!
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Roughing It

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Dan is 65% done with Roughing It
Mark Twain is what I would call "difficult" reading at times. He uses lots of old vocabulary and his roundabout (I know that his style) ways of telling stories for comic effect. Gratifying reading through and through.
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Roughing It

Dan
Dan is 34% done with Roughing It
I will read everything Mark Twain has written.
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Dan is on page 78 of 560 of Roughing It
"the Book of Mormon is a rather stupid and tiresome read..." I love MT
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