Mark Twain books

[Moe]

Has anyone here read any of Mark Twain books? I've read two of his books: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huck Finn. They were both very good books. I'd say that Huck Finn was the best one out of the two. I liked the diffrent adventures they got into while traveling down the Mississippi River.

[jamesglewisf]

I read both of these in school. I liked them then, but it has been too long to remember much.

I seem to remember reading something he wrote about Adam and Eve. Does anybody else remember this? It was pretty funny. Maybe it wasn't him though.

[Anat]

Both are classics. I studied Huck Finn and it's really fascinating when you analyze it.

Check out this site:
http://www.twainquotes.com/

I LOVE his cat quotes:



A home without a cat- and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat- may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?


Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the last. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

[Karenluvs6]

Here are some great quotes from Mark Twain:

"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a
tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people
think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and
astonish the rest."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"Honesty is the best policy-when there is money in it."

"I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher,
grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie.
I can lie, but I won't."

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a
member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you
see, I have friends in both places."

"If you tell the truth, you do not have to remember anything."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture
they do not understand, but the passages that bother
me are those I do understand."

"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months
to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January,
September, April, November, May, March, June,
December, August and February."

"The man who does not read good books has no
advantage over the man who can't read them."

"There are several good protections against temptations,
but the surest is cowardice."

"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be
good is nobler and no trouble."

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction
is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us
economize it."

"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to
any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by
the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't
know anything and can't read."

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when
I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much
the old man had learned in seven years."

"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances
are against his being able to deceive other people."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect."

[loxodonta]

I like Mark Twain books. I never really finished Tom Sawyer, but I read Huckleberry Finn - more than once, even!

I also read
"Prince and Pauper" one of my favorite books as a child. {blush}
"A Yankee at King Arthur's Court" which I found extremely funny. :D This book has also been made to a movie - with Danny Kaye(?)
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg." This one nicely presents human weaknesses to to the reader. Sad book if you are usually thinking positively about your fellow human beings ... :( But it has some kind of a happy ending in that people at least are ashamed of their behavior, in the end.

Edited to add:
Karen, I finally found a sig among my quotes. I felt so - undeveloped without one. Thanks! :)

[Grimey]

I haven't thought about Mark Twain in years. It might be interesting to read his books now that I'm a little older.