I just finished reading my first Mark Twain book, i only remember reading that one chapter way back in grade school where Tom Sawyer hustles his friends into painting the wall instead of doing it himself, and I must say I was quite impressed with him. I mean it is not the kind of thing i could do myself, I would probably sit there very diligently painting the fence my self, but it is the kind of thing I can admire atleast.
My reaction:
Why is this book so famous? Why does it make to the 100 best novels ever written list? Why did ernest hemmingway call it THE book written in America? I have no idea....
It was funny, it was an easy read, and yes it was funny. Saying it again because there were parts in there that i just had to hold my stomach and laugh, so it was not a waste of time or anything, but it was in no way a grand treatise either. I am much more inclined to agree with Mark Twain when he says the book was just an accompaniment to the earlier Tom Sawyer book and nothing else. Forgive me, but I don't see anything remotely as magnanimous as what Hemingway says.
And I must say that Tom Sawer fellow, he's a numbskull! he ain't got no brains worth a dime! And aunt Polly has every right to beat the crap out of that fool. To imagine the grand scale ruckus just one idiot can create! argh!
