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    <body><![CDATA[My all-time favorite work of non-fiction.  I usually read this every summer.<br/><br/>As a fourth grader I read this book and took it very seriously.  It was my dream to build a raft and go adventuring.  Actually I did build the raft, but there was not enough water in the creek.<br/><br/>My othe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12474521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was young I had read this book once. I read this book again recently and thought differently from the last time. The cover of book was interesting which was showing Tom Sawyer’s wit.(I couldn’t find the book in Good Reads) He gave his work to friends by using the wit and instead, he ate f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10077260">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's not much that can be said about this book by a hack like me that would do it justice. Mark Twain was the first American writer to figure out how to turn the American vernacular into art, and he was the first historian to document how we talked. He also was a visionary who saw the problems of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6118280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am currently reading this to my boys.  I am not enjoying it at all.  I think my 8 year old likes it though.  I was really expecting to be more excited about this one.  =(  I wish I could get it to it.<br/><br/>Okay, maybe I am a weak reader, but I decided to read an abridged version instead to m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37214338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Little-known fact: I played an extra in the musical and got to choose my own name.  I picked &quot;Tony&quot; but was told I had to change it because &quot;the Italians hadn't arrived yet.&quot;  So I changed it to &quot;Anthony&quot; and they accepted that.  I guess what they meant is that the Ital...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18848540">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[funny,but boring too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[its good, but harder 2 read than i thought, am reading 4 school]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm admittedly a fan of many of Mark Twain's works; so which to write up here at my social network? So I picked this one, because of me growing up three hours' south of Hannibal, Missouri, Twain's actual childhood hometown, which he paints a vivd picture of in this particular book, and which I visit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2874243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Huckleberry Finn, I read it a long time ago and I don't remember much besides that I liked it and it was a really good book.<br/><br/>I remember one part, though, because it was my favorite.  I remember the part when Tom is white-washing the fence and he gets everybody else to do it for him.  I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50646371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Visit Tom's home in Hannibal MO<br/>and soon you will realize <br/>that young Sam Clemens<br/>who showed his depth<br/>by revisualizing himself as Mark Twain<br/>could look right into Laura Hawkins' bedroom<br/>Hmmmm<br/>I wonder what he saw <br/>of her<br/>Anyway he changed her name<br/>t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38503230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Time magazine recently featured a cover story on the classic American writer Mark Twain. Recalling that we had “The Portable Mark Twain” on our bookshelf, I decided to re-read this one. I was surprised how much of it I forgot. It is a mix of letters and stories including his best known work “A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28888332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that perhaps the phrase &quot;boys will be boys&quot; originated with Mark Twain and that imp of his, Tom Sawyer.  I think also that if I had the nefarious Tom at my house, I would grind his bones to make my bread.  It is funny to think that many people used to think (and some still do) that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77220130">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's Twain, what can I say?<br/><br/>I thought this a classic adventure story. There were moments I found more endearing than others: like when Tom takes the beating for Becky...though I was, of course, bothered by the whole teacher-whacking-a-student thing. But that was then, no escaping it. I al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74527845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose to read &quot;The Adventures of Tom Sawyer&quot; by Mark Twain because I have never read the book and being an English major who really enjoys Mark Twain, that just seemed wrong. Also, we were on vacation in Greece, and &quot;Tom Sawyer,&quot; along with &quot;Arabian Nights,&quot; &quot;Rob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71163906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not read this book in middle school/high school (or whenever it was that I was supposed to read it), so it's part of my attempt to read classics that I should have read.  My first impression when I began reading it was pleasant but annoyed by the speech patterns and thought processes of the ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68543939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was young, my mother's only brother lived not too far from Hannibal (Samuel Clemens childhood home). Whenever we visited them in Missouri, we would make a trip to Hannibal. So when my husband and I were planning this summer's road trip and I saw we could easily route through Hannibal, I decid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61721991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Tom Sawyer lives in St. Petersburg, Missouri with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid.  One day, Tom plays hooky and gets into a fight.  He gets in trouble and has to paint the fence white.  Then he goes to sunday school and says that the first two deciples were David and Goliath.  Becky Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53772641">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since it's this year's National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, I read it again. While Twain tries to capture the essence of boyhood, (getting into trouble, getting out of work, disliking school and church, falling for a girl, and seeking adventure)Twain also takes opportunity to criticize religion...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50628893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	“Trash and suitable for the slums”. This is a direct quote from a librarian from the Public Library in Brooklyn, New York talking about the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Some parents/adults don’t want their children reading books in school that have suggestive language, sex, religion, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55806599">more...</a>]]></body>
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