Probably, in all honesty, not Twain’s best work, but it helped establish him as a writer so good for those of us who are happy some of his other books, does have some good bits, and its strongest point is probably as a reflection of the author’s time and place. The strongest section is probably while he is settled in Nevada, in terms of stretches of fifty or one hundred pages. Best individual anecdote is a description of some guy on a boat to Hawaii who bothers his fellow passengers by making up brazen stories consisting of horse manure to justify why he supports the Confederates in the Civil War. Finally someone uses the dude’s tactics on him and tricks him into agreeing to some equally tall tale in support of the Union and that gets him to shut up for the rest of the trip.