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Tom Sawyer Abroad
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If Tom Sawyer Detective is to the original Tom/Huck books what Bad News Bears Go to Japan was to the original, then Tom Sawyer is the Mark Twain equivalent of Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
Tom, Huck, and the slave Jim get kidnapped by a mad scientist and taken to Africa on a tricked-out airship. Tom gives lessons on longitude and latitude, the time zones, the curvature of the Earth, and why countries really aren't the same color they appear to be on maps. Huck and Jim remain skeptical.
I was really scratching my head on this one until Goodreader and rogue pedagogue Megan K. explained to me that Twain intended it to be some kind of satire on Jules Verne. Not quite as worth reading as Tom Sawyer Detective, but I did chuckle when Tom explained that Moslems are basically anybody who is not Presbyterian.
Tom, Huck, and the slave Jim get kidnapped by a mad scientist and taken to Africa on a tricked-out airship. Tom gives lessons on longitude and latitude, the time zones, the curvature of the Earth, and why countries really aren't the same color they appear to be on maps. Huck and Jim remain skeptical.
I was really scratching my head on this one until Goodreader and rogue pedagogue Megan K. explained to me that Twain intended it to be some kind of satire on Jules Verne. Not quite as worth reading as Tom Sawyer Detective, but I did chuckle when Tom explained that Moslems are basically anybody who is not Presbyterian.
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Jun 22, 2011 10:17PM
I had no idea that it was a satire on Verne! What a smart-ass. I also found the map scene (and "moslem comment") hilarious, and the semi-buried caravan scene eerie. Perhaps I should give "detective" a shot.
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