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    <body><![CDATA[A book about going to a backwards place, dominated by an ignorant faith and blowing a lot of stuff up in the name of freedom. If you can be non-cynical enough, you might be able to find sympathy for our American freedom-fighters in Iraq by reading of Hank's well-meaning attempt at a socio-political ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3230029">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I Read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain to my kids (7-9). Having never read this classic before I expected it to be a little bit more 'kid oriented' than it was. There were many times when my 7 and 9 year-olds struggled to make it through the book.<br/><br/>Yankee had so man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22165159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I head seen and heard little tidbits about 'Connecticut Yankee...' over the past several years.  It is one of Twain's most well known novels, after Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn, but I've mostly caught references to the story in parodies featuring Bugs Bunny or Martin Lawrence.  That is to say that the time ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14362040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was too young when I read this...5th grade. Did not get the nuances as much as I might have if I read it later. I was forced to read this and it still makes me cringe when I hear the title.<br/><br/>Get over it, right? Someday maybe.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although a bit of a mish-mash of ideas and stories and not particularly coherent in its structure, A Connecticut Yankee is surely an intriguing social commentary about the limits of progress and a strong condemnation of human nature.  Twain uses his fantastical tale of a 19th century New Englander b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37851250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read and enjoyed several of Jack London’s books, it dawned on me to try out some Mark Twain.  It was with a certain amount of excitement that I approached <em>A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court</em> but, ultimately, found myself disappointed.<br/><br/>The concept of the book, that a res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32793623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the many good things about lying in order to avoid junior high school is that it allows time to read good books.  Having done the old &quot;thermometer to the light bulb&quot; trick, I spent a very productive couple of days home in bed reading, among other things, Mark Twain's Connecticut Yan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34555548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not recommend this book as a read-aloud.  That said, I will tell you that that is the only way I have experienced it.  This time through as Ed and I read this somewhat difficult (and violent) social satire (stopping along the way to explain to each other just what was happening), I wondered jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70453388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court is one of Twain’s lesser known books. It is a delightfully sarcastic novel dealing with the issues of politics and the government. Though it is aimed at the post-revolutionary war era, it still holds true to today’s society. It deals ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69307528">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Though I don't agree with some of the points or means in the book, I love how it reads, and how it gives me both an entertaining story and a philosophical analysis. It's definitely not what I had expected (wasn't there a Disney movie of some sort with a teenage baseball player and a romance involved...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37343846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an insightful look at the advances of technology and the issue of slavery. Twain elegantly addresses the issues of his day in his own unique way. The main character is hilarious and the supporting cast is rich. This book made me laugh out loud. Definitely a good read!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoy satire of any sort &amp; Twain didn't disappoint!  <br/>Individuals in Twain's Britain are conditioned and trained to accept the world from a single perspective and are entirely incapable of adapting or thinking for themselves. More so than the inherent good of democracy or the wrongness of sla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41568462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[                    After reading this book I highly recommend all high school students to read this book. This book is especially good for those who are in U.S. History AP. This book takes place in the medieval setting of King Arthur's Round Table. Stuck in a dream the protagonist, the Yankee, come...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77884001">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was quite funny, yet a bit too cliche for my liking. Mark Twain really stepped out of his field for this one, and you can tell that in both a nice and bad way.<br/><br/>It's hilarious to read about the ignorance of the people of the sixth century, and it adds a &quot;comfy&quot; feel to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70848846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What does a 19th Century Connecticut Yankee do when he wakes up in medieval England?  He creates a revolution, of course, to bring the enlightenment to the dark ages.  It is a little gimmicky, but it gives Twain a chance to skewer medieval society.  At times it's over the top, with everyone so compl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55006244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court</em> is a humorous account of an American who finds himself living in King Arthur’s middle ages.  He applies his historical and industrial knowledge to his advantage and ends up as Arthur’s prime minister.  He then sets about to bring England up to 19th c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72695145">more...</a>]]></body>
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