GeekChick's review
Roughing It (Enriched Classics)
by Mark Twain
GeekChick's review
Roughing It (Enriched Classics) by Mark Twain
GeekChick's review
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recommended for: anyone
I read this many years ago. Little did I know that I would one day live in Nevada. Now that I do, I decided to reread it.
The misty halls of memory made me think this was a biographical account, but it is fiction with a historical base. Yes, he really did have at least some of these adventures, but Twain took a bit of artistic license to make them good Wild West stories.
I think I enjoyed it more the first time around, when it was just a fun read. This time I am reading it with an eye for the history of the place I now live in.
It's an easy read, though a tad long and a bit wordy in some places. A nice bit of easy reading.
The misty halls of memory made me think this was a biographical account, but it is fiction with a historical base. Yes, he really did have at least some of these adventures, but Twain took a bit of artistic license to make them good Wild West stories.
I think I enjoyed it more the first time around, when it was just a fun read. This time I am reading it with an eye for the history of the place I now live in.
It's an easy read, though a tad long and a bit wordy in some places. A nice bit of easy reading.
