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I should not like this book, being raised a Baptist, but I enjoy debating the Bible with others. And, this satire of a hypocritical Baptist/Methodist preacher is a great debate of the many things that confuse people of the Bible. Elmer Gantry, with his showmanship, is someone you will love to hate. You just can't wait for him to get his comeuppance. He is really an unforgivable guy. #CenturyReads 1927

DivineDiana If you possibly can, watch the movie. Amazing performances.Powerful. 🎥 (edited) 3y

Butterfinger He is the worst kind of #Monster - He doesn't believe what he preaches. He preys on people's insecurities. #BBRC @LibrarianRyan 3y

LibrarianRyan @Butterfinger Nice use of the prompt! 3y

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Texreader

American Cassandra: The Life of Dorothy Thompson | Peter Kurth

Another wonderful article about a female hero I knew nothing about. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/dorothy-thompson-the-journalist-who-warned-th...

GingerAntics You‘d think people would listen to women after all these cases where women sounded the alarm first, but no. Of course not. 5y

kspenmoll This was fascinating! Thanks for posting! 5y

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deo_cabigon

Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis

Medical Fiction
12/3/2018 to 11/27/2019
I started reading the book but never got a chance to finish it.
Martin Arrowsmith, the protagonist of the novel, was born and brought up in the small midwestern town of Elk Mills, where he developed an interest in science and spent his free hours reading through Gray's Anatomy and other books in the town's doctor's office, Doc Vickerson.

deo_cabigon Summary - Continued
The book ends with the proposal of Martin and Terry to create a laboratory in Terry's woodland home so they can be able to do the important research they enjoy and need without the commercial burden exerted by department heads and institute presidents. 5y

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alexa_d

Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis

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The fuck was that ending, Sinclair Lewis??? "Gonna leave my wife and kid to do science in the woods with my bro (and we're not even gay for each other just for science)"???? Yes, he and Joyce were fundamentally incompatible BUT THAT'S YOUR FUCKING KID, ARROWSMITH!!! He's going to grow up knowing that his dad loved him less than a fucking chemistry set in the woods.

alexa_d

Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis

#audiobook #audiocommute #RBdigtal #SeptemberTBR #Pulitzer (Fiction, 1926)

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alexa_d

Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis

"His dissecting partner was the Reverend Ira Hinkley, known to the class by a similar but different name."

Okay, I'm going to need help with whatever this probably-obscene pun from the 1920s might be.

ETA: They say it outright later. It's "Stinkley". I'm revoking your Nobel Prize, Sinclair Lewis.

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CSeydel

Babbitt: Easyread Large Bold Edition | Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt‘s logic:

“No one ought to be forced to join a labor union. All labor agitators who try to force men to join a union should be hanged. ... every business man ought to belong to an employers‘ association. In union there is strength. Any selfish hog who doesn‘t join the Chamber of Commerce ought to be forced to!”

CSeydel #SinclairLewis doesn‘t leave any doubts about his political leanings 5y

GingerAntics 🙄 we‘d sure hate for employees to be protected from abuses by their employers. 🙄 The air of this may be why I never really got into Sinclair Lewis. 5y

CSeydel @GingerAntics Yes the satire is pretty smothering in this one. He really hammers home the social message in every single chapter, from Babbitt‘s interactions with his employees, to his social circle, to his family, even his interior monologue reveal the hypocrisy of his whole worldview. I‘m hoping it gets a little more nuanced later on - or at least the plot picks up. 5y

GingerAntics Good luck. Keep us posted. 5y

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Billypar

The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books | Azar Nafisi

#WhereIsMyMind #MayMovieMagic

I believe it resides here 😉

@rohit-sawant @Cinfhen

merelybookish Nice!! 6y

RohitSawant 👏🏼👏🏼 6y

Cinfhen Still need to read her first book, but the follow up sounds just as good!! Nice choice 😊 6y

Cathythoughts Nice one ♥️👍🏻 6y

Billypar @Cinfhen I loved Reading Lolita in Tehran- one of my favorite memoirs. 6y

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PippoRanito

Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis

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Took a break from writing medical history which led me to think, "wait a minute, have I ever read a medical novel?" Well, turns out I have. Ten years ago I read Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith. And let me tell you this: it's much better than his two most famous works, Babbit and Main Street. Oh btw, Sinclair Lewis is the first American novelist to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

#classics #medicine #science #history

overtheedge @PippoRanito I totally agree with you.....I loved Arrowsmith, too. It is his best!! 6y

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overtheedge

Job | Sinclair Lewis

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Una Golden, a suffragist-in-training in New York City is battling many of the same societal norms woman are still fighting today. Equality. Not just between men and women, but between social and economic class.
This is remarkably insightful written with a fluidity that makes this compelling and engaging. His characters are so well developed, one of my favorite authors.
Highly Recommended.
goodreads.com/overtheedge full review

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