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    <body><![CDATA[Twain on the river as a kid. Twain back on the river again as a sneaky pete writer. I wanted to like this book, which is why, I suppose, I hung in for 350-odd pages before setting it aside. The book is entertaining intermittantly and occasionally sharp and funny but it meanders. I should probably ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10742444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened  ( audiocassette, something like 16) right before traveling to Ohio and taking a steamboat excursion on the Ohio river. That's the circumstance,here's the review.<br/>  I love Mark Twain.  I wish I could memorize quotes, because I would love to have a slew of his at my beck and call to d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61052910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was loaned to me by Lisa Arrindale-Anderson and is surely a prize.  It was published originally in 1874 with this copy being published in 1883. This is a hardback book with 481 pages.  It was signed by Mr. Clemens/Twain with the following inscription . . . &quot; This is the authorized uni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58436009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my bedroom is hung a giant piece of paper. The image on the paper is of a steamboat on the Mississippi. The image is black &amp; white and comprised of shaded text from this work. A friend who works at a KINKO's back in MKE made it for me a while back. I stare at it a lot and feel cool. I love Mark T...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1880854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a huge fan of the Mississippi river and, well, New Orleans in particular, I really really wanted to enjoy this book!  I was so excited to find it in the classics section of What the Book in Seoul, namely because I usually would never explore this area of a used bookstore.  Having not read Twain s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65848453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sparked my love for the Mississipi River a few years back. As a person whose eyes glaze over when someone talks about science, Twain's very detailed description of geological aspects of the Mississippi River was surprisingly fascinating. His stories about the people on the steamboats of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58795992">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two things drew me to this book: I like Samuel Clemen's writing style and I am a hardware junkie, especially with ships and planes. His descriptions of becoming a cub pilot from the childlike &quot;When I grow up&quot; stage to the &quot;If you love me,...Back her up&quot; drama of running a steambo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67909704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of, when I was a boy; more accurately, my dad read them to me and my sister Jessie in nightly installments.  My dad read these from a giant book, the illustrated works of Twain, while Jessie and I sat at his feet.  I would later peruse the book,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70785449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Disjointed, outrageous, hilarious, fascinating, meandering tour through a strange, lush, vanished America.  Also a series of autobiographical meditations by a singular genius, whose voice you will find yourself imitating in your speech and writing as you immerse yourself in this lovable book.  It is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65259535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Life on the Mississippi as an undergrad, and I taught snippets from the beginning to freshmen, but I had never read this wonderful book while on a steamboat.  We were traveling from Cincinnati to St. Louis, reading about young Twain traveling with dreams of becoming a steamboat pilot, from Ci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36416336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Mark Twain, I really do. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as well as the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are just classic. He was a satirist (a brilliant one at that). He was a story-teller. He was so good at being a satirical orator that he made a living of it! He travelled the world. He was a ce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34825222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A large part of this book is concerned mainly with Twain's experiences on the river as a pilot in training.  This part was written in 1875 and covers the height of the steamer trade.  It's beautiful, riveting, awesome, and often hilarious.  If that weren't enough, there's the account of the boiler e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32897347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Twain shares his memories of the Mississippi river from his youth to late adulthood.  I loved the easy storytelling style but wished he had gone with the humorous slant or without it.  The back and forth made me miss some jokes!<br/><br/>One great part was Twain recounting the tail of an acquainta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32793838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life on the Mississippi is not really about the river itself, but the people and places on and around it. The first chapter introduces the river and gives various facts and statistics about it, as well as &quot;historical history&quot;. The book continues with Mark Twain's personal experiences with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29642975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, but other than that classic, I have not read much Mark Twain.  Now that I am off of my Jane Austen kick (with only one or two more books to go through her writings), I decided to turn to Mark Twain.<br/><br/>I love the Mississippi River.  There is just somethi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29057436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Life on the Mississippi is one of those books that has stuck with me from the time when I was first discovering my love of books. I first read it in 7th grade (21 years ago). As it was the year before I started my book diary, I can't pinpoint when with any greater accuracy. Rereading the book was li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4815302">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i'm sort of reading this for work. my copy, which i have had forever, is illustrated by thomas hart benton, so i think there might be a worthwhile art/lit connection in it worth developing for the kiddos. i am surprised by how excited i am to read mark twain!<br/><br/>note: skip the 1st 3 chapters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7964782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The world is always changing, and, with a sharp eye for detail and a ready wit, Twain chronicles some of the changes that took place along the Mississippi River in the 19th Century. Twain pokes fun at himself and the people he knew as a youthful steamboat pilot and years later when he'd become a suc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43917991">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book after a trip to Hannibal Missouri. We toured the Riverboat Museum there and I was enthralled with the Mississippi River and wanted to know what would drive a young author to want to be a riverboat captain. I found myself wanting to board a river boat and ride it from the great lake ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59582271">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recall reading this edition on lazy mid-summer days in Michigan, sitting on what I've always thought of as Dad's chaise lounge on the many-windowed porch of his mother's cottage overlooking the lake.  It is not my favorite Twain, though one must honor his love for his topic:  the paddleboat steame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42653351">more...</a>]]></body>
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