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Book Reviews of Life on the Mississippi

Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain
ISBN: 339527
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 513
Rating:
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Book of the Month Club
Book Type: Paperback
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6 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

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One of my favorite Twain books. He describes "reading the river" so well.
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Masterful evocation of times gone, and places, vanished. Some of the tales tend to have "color added" in the Twain tradition, but they are invariably interesting. Twain's warnings of the futility of taming the mighty river will sound surprisingly familiar in light of the events of 2011.
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This wonderful classic is Twain's reminiscence about life on the Mississippi when he was a boy and a young man. It had changed for him since those days - the change for us is even more tremendous.
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excellent
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Wonderful!
dmleach avatar reviewed Life on the Mississippi on + 7 more book reviews
It just wasn't my cup of tea. Very dry reading, especially given my idea of Mark Twain. This was the first of his books I tried to read.