About to start Roughing It by Mark Twain. Supposedly an adventure tale/memoir of his Wild West travels. Good Reads gives it 4 out 5 with over 3K ratings. It is also available for free via Amazon for Kindle here.
Enjoy. Have fun trying to visualize the man on a surfboard. In my mind he's wearing one of those old school wool style swim suits and still smoking his pipe. Have you read his essay about learning to ride a bike? Hysterical!
"he just then got up a fearful convulsion of his countenance which was suggestive of a wink being swallowed by an earthquake, we guessed that his remark was intended to be facetious"
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Enjoy. Have fun trying to visualize the man on a surfboard. In my mind he's wearing one of those old school wool style swim suits and still smoking his pipe. Have you read his essay about learning to ride a bike? Hysterical!
pretty good book. I actually preferred "Life on the Mississippi" you should give that a go next.
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The writing so far is key-lassic;
"he just then got up a fearful convulsion of his countenance which was suggestive of a wink being swallowed by an earthquake, we guessed that his remark was intended to be facetious"
You can't really beat Twain. He was truly a master of the English language.
Maybe I'm just cheap but I'm excited at the prospect of free Kindle books. So many classics, so little time...
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