Kevin's Watch

I LOVE Mark Twain. The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs Court, etc...


I consider him one the the greatest classic novelists.


What do you think? What's you favorite story/novel etc....


Tom Sawyer helped me gain perspective in my childhood.....

I tried to read Sawyer, but the way it is written puts me off.

Tried Prince and the Pauper, and could not get into it, but Connecticut Yankee was good - depressing, to be sure, but good. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were a lot of fun. I've been meaning to read some of his short stories, but as usual can barely keep up with my schoolwork, let alone outside reading.

I think my favorite Twain book is Life on the Mississippi. I read it while visiting people who live in a little town in Iowa that is on the Mississippi, and it was really cool reading about what life on the River used to be, while staying with people who actually live there in the here and now.

Twain's Adam and Eve dairies are really funny

I enjoyed both Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberyy Finn and argee with popualr opinion that the latter is by far the superior work. I, however, don't care for the other well known works by Twain (not that I think they are not quality, I just don't think of them as anything exceptional).

I really did like Letters from the Earth whic was published after Twain's death, a very controversial effort i nthe format of eltters from Satan to Gabriel.

I also liked Schoolhouse Hill which invovles a atory with Satan/Huck/and Tom Sawyer a revision and part of his unfinished (by him) The Mysterious Stranger .

I have only read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Prince and the Pauper, and recall liking both works. I hope to one day read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.