In my creative writing course my freshman year in college, our assignment was to write a parody. When mine came back, my professor had written, "You imitate Mark Twain's writing style very well, but the problem here is lack of plot." True also of these stories.
Normally I would not have finished such a disgusting collection of disrespectful puerile testosterone-laced sexual fantasies, but TR had read it and was waiting excitedly for my commentary. I'm sure he did enjoy it...part of what I love about him is that he is basically a 75 year old 7th grade boy. Perhaps I'll only tell him the first part of my review...
I am now about to start Roughing It by Mark Twain. I've seen the movie produced from it, which is not the order in which I normally like to approach a story, but, oh well. Though the movie tried to give narration purportedly in the voice of an older Mark Twain, I'm sure I will love the book more. I love his tongue-in-cheek country boy humor and wisdom. This is not the actual edition I am reading, but has nearly the same number of pages. I am reading a collector's edition hardback with some illustrations by Noel Sickles.
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