#HuckleberryFinn

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I've read about half this list, though I wrote on in grad school -

What shaped you in ? Here's what you said https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5468462/best-books-read-high-school

"With Twain it seems more the case that we go on suspecting he hides some meaning, some message that we could probably use, behind the bushy eyebrows and mustache, but are less and less able to name or remember. He doesn’t quite haunt us." —John Jeremiah Sullivan for Harper's

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/twain-dreams-samuel-clemens-john-jeremiah-sullivan?src=longreads

20 Bücher, die mich geprägt haben, bzw. die mir wichtig waren und sind. Ein Buch pro Tag. (⬇️ Erklärung im Kommentarteil ⬇️ ) 😉 06/20: Mark Twain - Tom Sawyers Abenteuer (1876)
 @diogenesverlag

Gebundene Ausgabe von Tom Sawyers Abenteuer, geschrieben von Mark Twain, mit Bildern von Tatjana Hauptmann. Auf dem Cover ist eine Zeichnung von zwei barfüßigen Jungen (Tom & Huck), die sich faulenzend an einen Karren lehnen. Im Hintergrund der Mississippi auf dem man in der Ferne einen Raddampfer sieht.

12/11/23 Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.

It's unusual here, for so many popular topics & titles to be in one box. I must've once prioritized these, promptly been swamped, & forgotten them... 'til now!


@bookstodon

A photo of a neat stack of 10 books, as follows, from to to bottom: 1. J.R.R. TOLKIEN – THE ENCHANTING PRELUDE TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS – THE HOBBIT. 2. theodore sturgeon – Aliens 4. 3. Go Ask Alice – Anonymous. 4. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ESSENTIAL VISUAL HISTORY – WORLD MYTHOLOGY. 5. RIGGS – MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN. 6. THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS – MIYAMOTO MUSASHI. 7. HARRER – SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET. 8. CG JUNG – Synchronicity. 9. THE Five LOVE LANGUAGES – CHAPMAN. 10. ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN – Mark Twain.

reviewed Show Boat by Edna Ferber

Edna Ferber: Show Boat (Hardcover, 2007, Gramercy)

Refreshing.

It doesn't have the brilliance of #HuckleberryFinn, and the author has a curious way of repeating (announcing and rehearsing?) key elements, and in one instance, even of summarising the whole novel as a character looks back and tells her story in one page. A little bit of a "take-home message" page... But on the other hand, the characters are more complex than they appear at first, and, apart from those quirks, the style is pleasantly fluid.