Dickens without the sentimentality?
I fear Mencken liked Dreiser for the same reason Vonnegut liked Mencken.
Vonnegut was an ignorant man.
But it's too soon to quit on him.
Dreiser, I mean.
I'll carry on.
Update.
Finally put it aside about November 15th, after well over a hundred pages.
An American Tragedy is just too uninteresting a story, told badly, in bad prose, at too great length.
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