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I have been giving Yankee a chance and I finally have simply switched to looking up essays about it, which have turned out more interesting than Yankee ever could be to me. So I can only say that from my reading I dislike this book because I expected it to be something else and it is too MUCH of what it actually is --- a political diatribe.
I must confess I tired of the style of writing and what I felt were crude and repetitive statements like "any established church is an established crime...." ...more
I must confess I tired of the style of writing and what I felt were crude and repetitive statements like "any established church is an established crime...." ...more
It is amazing how contemporary Mark Twain sounds. His dry wit and phrasing don't seem a bit dated and he is a master of satire as this book so aptly shows.
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Twain is the paragon of American satirists, and this one's good for many laughs - his send-up of late 19th-century capitalism is spot-on, even at a remove of more than a century.
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Reading this was the first time I can remember understanding satire.
I read this in the 6th grade an immediately fell in love with Mark Twain's wit. ...more
I read this in the 6th grade an immediately fell in love with Mark Twain's wit. ...more
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