Comments on: The Titan http://www.frumforum.com/the-titan Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: WaStateUrbanGOPer http://www.frumforum.com/the-titan/comment-page-1#comment-165758 WaStateUrbanGOPer Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:43:04 +0000 http://www.newmajority.com/?p=8094#comment-165758 Dreiser's stories are well conceived, full of plausible characters and situations, and narratives strung on sequences of events that seem nothing if not logical. And yet the prose style... Good stories or not, his novels are unreadable. Period. He may in fact be the most unreadable of all the major American fiction writers. (He's almost as unreadable as Laurence Durrell, and that's saying something!) Even H.L. Mencken, Dreiser's most vocal admirer, thought his novels penned in a sloppy hand. Dreiser’s stories are well conceived, full of plausible characters and situations, and narratives strung on sequences of events that seem nothing if not logical. And yet the prose style…

Good stories or not, his novels are unreadable. Period. He may in fact be the most unreadable of all the major American fiction writers. (He’s almost as unreadable as Laurence Durrell, and that’s saying something!)

Even H.L. Mencken, Dreiser’s most vocal admirer, thought his novels penned in a sloppy hand.

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