by Mark Twain
Audible version. Elijah Wood's reading is simply fantastic. Unfortunately, this story is not as engaging as I remember from childhood. I understand it has a Purpose, but I suspect I'd have given the book up completely before finishing, had I been reading the print version or had it been performed by...
Twain has a marvelous facility with words; the man could quip. But the stories he wrote seem all off-kilter, the grim beside the whimsical. And much of Huckleberry still doesn't make sense to me, like folktales that haven't yet been filtered through a professional writer's pen. Which is weird, be...
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