From the Bookshelf of Reading the Classics…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
If this were any author but Twain, I probably wouldn't have finished this book. There are enjoyable parts but quite a few other parts I didn't think would ever end. I'm a history buff, so I enjoyed those parts; my only complaint with those is that, in any fiction but especially Twain, the reader never knows how much is true and how much isn't. Sometimes you can tell he was yanking your chain, but other times who knows.
And do we really need several hundred pages to tell us that Americans often ac ...more
And do we really need several hundred pages to tell us that Americans often ac ...more
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people sorely need it on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth all one's lifetime".
...more
Jun 26, 2010
Barbara
marked it as to-read
Apr 02, 2011
Keriann
marked it as to-read
Aug 17, 2011
Henry Avila
marked it as to-read
Jan 10, 2013
Nicole
marked it as to-read
Jan 16, 2013
Siya Kumar
marked it as to-read
Mar 10, 2013
Jess :)
marked it as to-read
Aug 14, 2013
Jane
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2013
Cheryl
marked it as to-read
Jun 10, 2014
Sunny
marked it as to-read
Jul 21, 2014
Iulia
marked it as to-read
Aug 14, 2014
Sam Winslett
marked it as to-read
Nov 29, 2015
Andrea
marked it as to-read
Jan 23, 2016
Amy
marked it as to-read
Apr 16, 2017
Ahtims
marked it as to-read
Apr 30, 2021
Andrea
marked it as to-read
Oct 20, 2022
Noelle
marked it as to-read
Mar 24, 2023
Karigan
marked it as to-read
Dec 05, 2023
Emrys
rated it
really liked it
Shelves:
favourites,
zz-fully-tagged-2023,
8,
history,
biography,
nonfiction,
humour,
n10k,
geography-and-travel
Aug 05, 2024
Kelly
marked it as to-read
