Okay, I'm surprised by that.

[neadods]

Wow, I'm the only vote for The Custom of the Country in the previous poll? Poor Edith Wharton. That is a *great* book, y'all - what Sister Carrie would have been if Carrie had more than two brain cells to knock together. TBH, I've never figured out why, what with the current fashion for scheming, bored, rich, social-climbing housewives, it hasn't been made into a movie.

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[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

It *is* a great book, but you put it up against To Kill a Mockingbird . . .

[cedara]

Honestly? Never heard of it. *shrugs*

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

i never heard of the book.... its good?

[tempestsarekind.livejournal.com]

I tried to read it once, and it didn't take at all. One of these days I'm going to give it another go, but...in the meantime, if I were handing out books to strangers, I'd have to go with a Wharton novel that I could actually recommend, on account of actually having read it. :)

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

I've never read it, but it'll definitely be on my list now.

[fyrdrakken]

Having been using your book rec posts to save titles to my Amazon wishlist for possible later reading, I was pleased to find that this one was another of those out-of-copyright free-digital-edition titles. So, I "bought" it, though no telling when I'll get around to reading it...

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

"what Sister Carrie would have been if Carrie had more than two brain cells to knock together"

I've never heard of The Custom of the Country, but now I'm moved to try it out, because PLEASE YES. I trudged through Sister Carrie in ninth grade ranting that there was no reason for her to end up in any of those situations if she had any remotest amount of Not Utterly Stupid. It made me lose trust for awhile in men's ability to write a female protagonist.