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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
I did that with Steinbeck. There's a few I haven't yet read (Cup of Gold, The Short Reign of Pippin IV) and a notable one (The Pearl). But otherwise I went through everything I could find.
Much lesser extent, I enjoyed The Scarlet Letter enough that I quickly picked up House of the Seven Gables (which I liked more than Scarlet, actually).
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Yeah, Steinbeck is quite Dreiser-like, in fact, except for the added luster of what Paul Krugman refers to as the Swedish thingie. Both
Grapes of Wrath and
East of Eden could be seen as qualifying for the poseur list.
I always thought that adolescence/high school were the years to read all those long classics. I’ve surprised myself in recent years by going back to Victorian novels with enormous enjoyment. Maybe it’s my second childhood!
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An American Tragedy and Look Homeward, Angel are both on my ever expanding TBR list along with Moby Dick and War and Peace.
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