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Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave
At the very beginning of Huckleberry Finn, Huck tells the reader that what Mark Twain wrote about him in Tom Sawyer was mostly the truth, but he may have stretched it a little in places. Then he adds that he never knew anyone who always told the truth, except for his Aunt Polly and Mary. This straight up warns the reader that there may be some stretchers in the tale that follows. I couldn't help thinking about Huck when in the first pages of Lady Joe, Lee Estes never even considers telling the truth about how he lost his boss's prized cutting horse. Instead he concocts a deception to save himself which involves his best friend Jim Harrison. Lee is as good as Huck was in devising schemes to get out of trouble, but it seems each stretcher leads to a complication which then leads to more trouble. The hilarious tale is told with Twainian humor and warmth as well as a bit of nostalgia. It left me wanting to read about Lee and Jim's next adventure.
At the very beginning of Huckleberry Finn, Huck tells the reader that what Mark Twain wrote about him in Tom Sawyer was mostly the truth, but he may have stretched it a little in places. Then he adds that he never knew anyone who always told the truth, except for his Aunt Polly and Mary. This straight up warns the reader that there may be some stretchers in the tale that follows. I couldn't help thinking about Huck when in the first pages of Lady Joe, Lee Estes never even considers telling the truth about how he lost his boss's prized cutting horse. Instead he concocts a deception to save himself which involves his best friend Jim Harrison. Lee is as good as Huck was in devising schemes to get out of trouble, but it seems each stretcher leads to a complication which then leads to more trouble. The hilarious tale is told with Twainian humor and warmth as well as a bit of nostalgia. It left me wanting to read about Lee and Jim's next adventure.
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