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| Book talk : Starting a Library | | 24 | Anne51, October 25 | |
| Nobel Laureates in Literature : Which Nobel winners have you read? Which are favorites? | | 19 | torontoc, October 22 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1923 | | 14 | rocketjk, September 23 | |
| LibraryThing Book Challenge : First Lines | | 8 | Miranda_Paige, July 10 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Arubabookwoman's 1001 Quest-1-36 | | 15 | arubabookwoman, June 28 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : 1001 List: What Book are You Reading MARCH '09 | | 145 | klobrien2, April 1 | |
| Club Read 2009 : Joycepa's 2009 reading | | 306 | sgtbigg, March 30 | |
| Book talk : Myra will be back!!!!!! | | 8 | ellohpeoples_12, March 6 | |
| Virago Modern Classics : What Virago are you reading? (Part IV) | | 104 | mrspenny, January 8 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : The 1001 "I've Read That" chain game, Thread Two | | 265 | VivianeoftheLake, November 2008 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Off shoot of the Short Clue Game | | 5 | Scratch, November 2008 | |
| LC Classification Challenge : Lahochstetler's LC challenge | | 4 | lahochstetler, June 2008 | |
| Bestsellers over the Years : 1945 | | 15 | LouisBranning, May 2008 | |
| Dormant: Recommend Site Improvements : Getting back to where I was in my library | | 7 | ATimson, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: Bestsellers over the Years : 1922 | | 4 | vpfluke, March 2008 | |
| Dormant: Happy Heathens : Elmer Gantry group read SPOILER discussion thread | | 28 | littlegeek, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Catcher in the rye... worst book ever!!!?!!! | | 38 | Amaretto, August 2007 | |
... I have never strictly followed those rules but I am getting better. Missing my chance to get the first edition copy of Babbitt from the library of Harpo and Susan Marx moved me to keep a little money aside for once in a lifetime purchases like that.
My focus has drifted but, like I ... I'm sure I read The Sea Hawk as a kid, as I surely did love Scaramouche, also by Sabatini. I own Babbitt, but haven't read it yet. And while I don't have The Story of Mankind, I do have a few other's by Van Loon. They are fun to read. ... doable but I have just realised it's alread May... So what've I read so far this year;
Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Jame Hogg
Mary Barton - Gaskell
North and South - Gaskell
Small Favour - Jim ... -118 Oh, I've always loved Babbitt. I just finished A Pale View of Hills and I can't say I adored it. I also seem to have come to a different conclusion about the ambiguous ending then most other people. Just finished Babbitt yesterday by Sinclair Lewis. I had never heard about it, but it was surprisingly good.
From Dailylit: Babbitt is an everyman who has achieved the "American Dream." He has a family and comfortable home, and is respected at his office job in real estate. We read of his ... Now reading Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis through DailyLit. Pretty entertaining so far, I must say! I'm betting on Myra Babbitt. babbit is pretty tiresome & preachy too - and that's remembering it from high school umpteen years ago.
The worst hard times IS a brilliant mash up of physical/cultural geography, oral & social histories of the people who were truly left/stayed behind and the environment they created/mutilat ... ... make, and I've now read and enjoyed authors whom I might never have read otherwise.
But Lewis? Yes, I know, he wrote Babbitt--I don't care, I won't risk precious shipping money on Lewis again.
So you might consider reading it--who knows, you might like it. Of course, I'll never talk ... ... Street, Sinclair Lewis, 1970's
87. Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, 1970's
88. Ulysses, James Joyce 1971
89. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis, 1960's
90. Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse, 1960's
91. Zeno's Conscience, Italo Svevo, 2007
92. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster, 1980
93. ... ... Saga. I liked "In Chancery" the best of the saga.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis-- Main Street is still chilling to read; Babbitt still makes me queasy; Elmer Gantry remains my favorite of his books, perhaps because I was raised by a freak-o Protestant fundamentalist mother who was prey to a ... I'm on a brief Virago hiatus, reading Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. I'm finding it not nearly as good as Main Street. It is, however, dedicated to a Virago author: Edith Wharton. he- as an intensifying prefix a la "he-man," in Babbitt, by dear old Sinclair Lewis: Zenith is "a real he-town."
Never seen it anywhere else, before or since. Oh, I've read that! How exciting, I finally get to participate. Has anyone read Babbit?
(I searched the thread and didn't see it so I hope it hasn't already been mentioned). ... by Voltaire
PR- Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
PS- At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
PZ- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Q- A Social History of Truth by Stephen Shapin
QA- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
QH- A Feeling for the Organism ... ... 603)
26. The Hobbit (610)
27. Out of Africa (614)
28. The Sun Also Rises (689)
29. A Passage to India (708)
30. Babbitt (722)
31. Main Street (727)
32. Three Lives (756)
33. The House of Mirth (770)
34. The Awakening (788)
35. The Picture of Dorian Gray (809)
36. The ... Unlike sarahemmm above in msg 6, I thought The Enchanted April was a wonderful read.
I've also read Lewis' Babbitt and Sabatini's The Sea Hawk. Well, Babbitt is on my To Be Read list. ... my grandmother's favourite author. 'Mawkishly sweet' was my take.
I've never heard of any of the other fiction, except Babbitt. ... change?
I'm not sure that is correct though. Signet has just re-released several Sinclair Lewis books (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith and Elmer Gantry) and my book covers haven't changed. Or am I missing the point here? ... His Children's Children, Arthur Train 0 copies
3. The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim 352 copies
4. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis 1,113 copies
5. The Dim Lantern, Temple Bailey 2 copies
6. This Freedom, A.S.M. Hutchinson 1 copy
7. The Mine with the Iron ... ... 1 copy
8. Maria Chapdelaine, Louis Hémon 68 copies
9. To the Last Man, Zane Grey 30 copies
10. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis (tie) 1,065 copies
10. Helen of the Old House, Harold Bell Wright (tie) 5 copies
I guess we know who broke the tie.
N O N F I C T ... ... above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. Babbitt
I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. On the Road I haven't read Babbitt so I can't say. I just finished reading Elmer Gantry and Gah! he's such a cad! Like Atomicmutant (whose post was fantastic, by the way), I am also very glad to have read this book. ... love seeing George Babbitt show up? I wonder, if he lived in this day and age, if Lewis would have gone back and re-written Babbitt to include Elmer Gantry. What do you think? ... Timberlane a novel of husbands and wives by Sinclair Lewis has 64 owners with 1 review. He is much better known for Babbitt with 780 owners and 7 reviews.
6. A Lion is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley has 7 owners and 1 review. A novel based on Huey Long - her only book.
... Hi pandammonia,
Your comment about "outdated" is a good one. A good analogy might be Babbitt. It's loaded with Twenties slang, including a lot of words that sound quaint now and probably sounded quaint in 1940. But it's convincing. I can hear that dialogue in my head, and believe that the ... You may be right, but I prefer the benign hypocrisy of so-called "limousine liberals" to a thousand George Babbitts, which is what I hear more of in the business world I spend my days. Accepting that people will act in their self-interest, I do respect a self-awareness that what has benefited you ... coffeezombie and others. As I headed out the door at the ungodly hour of 3:30 a.m. Monday morning, I decided on continuing Babbitt. My reading was mostly on the plane and in the airport, I didn't have any time during the week to read (other than a few pages each night). I'm probably about 1/4 ... ... Bros. is good stuff. Personal favorite though is Full City, down in Eugene. Mighty tasty brews. By the way, stick with Babbitt. It's a solid piece of work. If you don't like it, try It Can't Happen Here, which is a pretty vicious social satire and is a predecessor to Phillip Roth's Th ... ... Ray Bradbury book a long time ago.
So, I'm ready to start my next book. Actually, I started Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, but I'm only a chapter or so into it. It hasn't grabbed me, and I don't really know Lewis's work, and now I'm thinking of Bradbury.
So, should I continue on ...
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