Thanks for this….i saw in Notes you were reading these Drieser novels and I had always wondered what Sister Carrie was about. So I got it out of the library. Just finished it today. Wow, so readable! The quest for comfort and happiness…..the lesson learned for me is to not get so caught up in comforts of today and dreams of a better tomorrow and to stop looking out the window and just get going! I enjoyed being immersed Chicago/nyc circa 1900….although the descriptions of destitution were rough. Great read.
Oh nice, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! There are some tough lessons for sure.
And yes, the descriptions of poverty were really well done. It all felt very real — much more so than what you tend to see in fiction, especially from that era.
I never heard of Sister Carrie. But it’s on my “to read list” now. My all time favorite Great American novel is Gone With the Wind. It’s also my all time favorite novel. I’m just finishing up Anna Karenina now, and it doesn’t even come close.
Hey, Jeremy, I read Sister Carrie last year and loved it. I haven’t read An American Tragedy yet, but it’s on my (rapidly growing) TBR list.
I forgot to mention it in the original post, but I love that the kids are into The Hobbit. ❤️
Thanks for this….i saw in Notes you were reading these Drieser novels and I had always wondered what Sister Carrie was about. So I got it out of the library. Just finished it today. Wow, so readable! The quest for comfort and happiness…..the lesson learned for me is to not get so caught up in comforts of today and dreams of a better tomorrow and to stop looking out the window and just get going! I enjoyed being immersed Chicago/nyc circa 1900….although the descriptions of destitution were rough. Great read.
Oh nice, I'm so glad you enjoyed it! There are some tough lessons for sure.
And yes, the descriptions of poverty were really well done. It all felt very real — much more so than what you tend to see in fiction, especially from that era.
I never heard of Sister Carrie. But it’s on my “to read list” now. My all time favorite Great American novel is Gone With the Wind. It’s also my all time favorite novel. I’m just finishing up Anna Karenina now, and it doesn’t even come close.
OK, you convinced me. An American Tragedy is now on my (ever growing) TBR list.
Maybe that should be one of the books on a future Big Read.
I liked Sister Carrie, but I'm not a big Drieser fan. His worldview is pretty bleak.