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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.