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Saundra and Sondra both irritate me. I think that they're just trying so hard not to be Sandra, and it's irritating. And they both take more effort to say than Sandra does. Sandra just trips off the tongue, and Saundra and Sondra sure don't. So it's like they're saying, "I refuse to be the boring Sandra, so you just have to make more effort to get it right."
This post did motivate me to look up Sondra, though, and I found something interesting. It said that the name Sondra first started being used for real people after it had been used for a character in "An American Tragedy". The popularity statistics bear that out, the book was published in 1925 and it was right then that Sondra started being used. I reread the book just a few months ago. Now I know something that I didn't know before.
This post did motivate me to look up Sondra, though, and I found something interesting. It said that the name Sondra first started being used for real people after it had been used for a character in "An American Tragedy". The popularity statistics bear that out, the book was published in 1925 and it was right then that Sondra started being used. I reread the book just a few months ago. Now I know something that I didn't know before.
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Oooh how is "An American Tragedy"? I had a copy of the book floating around and never got around to reading it.
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I love "An American Tragedy". It's one of my favorite novels. You have to give it a chance, though. Dreiser's style is rather dense and he is very fond of run-on sentences. He also spends the first couple hundred pages describing the youth of the main character and his first romance, which can seem somewhat draggy and boring. But once you get into it, it really pulls you in, and the ending is mesmerizing. So if you do end up reading it, my advice is not to give up too easily.
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I read "An American Tragedy" almost 40 years ago, but I've never forgotten it. What a great book.
Also enjoyed "Sister Carrie."
Are there any other good ones he's written that you know of?
I read "An American Tragedy" almost 40 years ago, but I've never forgotten it. What a great book.
Also enjoyed "Sister Carrie."
Are there any other good ones he's written that you know of?
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I must admit, "An American Tragedy" and "Sister Carrie" are the only two of his that I've read myself. The only other novel of his that I'm interested in reading is "Jennie Gerhardt", but I haven't read that one yet. I wouldn't expect any of them to be as good as "An American Tragedy", which is considered his masterpiece.
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Alright thanks! I'm not even sure I have my old copy anymore, but I will look!
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