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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
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"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".
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