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When I dug into the story and realize what Mark Twain had done beyond the obvious, my rating rose. I recommend watching the two-part PBS documentary of Mark Twain produced by Ken Burns for PBS once you have read the book.
When I read the book the first time, while a young teenager in school, it was ok. When I was in my early 40s, I laughed at the obviously funny portions. This, the third time, I caught on to what Twain had done.
Twain wanted people to realize “.... how a body can see and not see ...more
When I read the book the first time, while a young teenager in school, it was ok. When I was in my early 40s, I laughed at the obviously funny portions. This, the third time, I caught on to what Twain had done.
Twain wanted people to realize “.... how a body can see and not see ...more
Mar 31, 2009
Yrinsyde
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A very entertaining read with marvelous use of vernacular in dialogue, but also sobering. I wasn't shocked by the references to 'nigger' - this is probably because I am not of North American origin. What I was shocked about was the cruelty shown towards animals (and I'm including people in here as humans are animals). It seemed that if a person, dog, cat, etc didn't 'belong' somewhere, wasn't anyone's property, then people felt free to torture them and kill them. What interested me about the sl
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When you have a good and genuine story to tell the "writing" is essentially invisible. There's nothing to critique. And it's a story about so many aspects of humanity carried in the soul of one boy. And, of course, it's funny.
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Jan 18, 2008
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Aug 10, 2011
Barbara
marked it as to-read
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