what are we reading?

Hubris Boy · 11-21-2002, 02:05 AM

For reasons I don't fully understand, I've been on a Sinclair Lewis kick lately.

In the past month or so, I've plowed through Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, Arrowsmith and It Can't Happen Here. I haven't been able to find a copy of Dodsworth anywhere; I tried to force my way through Kingsblood Royal, but it was so awful I had to stop.

I was especially amused by the dedication of Elmer Gantry:
      "To H.L. Mencken, with profound admiration"

which was probably much funnier back when the book was originally published, and Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Trial was still fresh in everybody's mind but, hey... a laugh's a laugh.

11-21-2002, 02:05 AM	#22
Hubris Boy Keymaster of Gozer Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Patapsco Drainage Basin Posts: 471	For reasons I don't fully understand, I've been on a Sinclair Lewis kick lately. In the past month or so, I've plowed through Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, Arrowsmith and It Can't Happen Here. I haven't been able to find a copy of Dodsworth anywhere; I tried to force my way through Kingsblood Royal, but it was so awful I had to stop. I was especially amused by the dedication of Elmer Gantry:       "To H.L. Mencken, with profound admiration" which was probably much funnier back when the book was originally published, and Mencken's coverage of the Scopes Trial was still fresh in everybody's mind but, hey... a laugh's a laugh.

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