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(group member since Jul 30, 2011)
Gary’s
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I read the book, called FINN, and I liked it. But I have to agree with you. I kinda felt the novel took liberties,but it is a well written book, I do believe, because you and I feel that way......so if that was Jon's goal, he succeeded, wouldn't you say?
Huzzah! Huzzah! Joseph!
This is available for sale in Cracker Barrel restaurant gift shops,and they were working on making it available at Wal Mart.....keep your fingers crossed.
Very Cool, Christopher!
For only a few bucks, be a backer, all your Twain fans out there!
Eva,I am now a backer,and proud of it!
LOL!
Other titles that have been santitized..... check this out......From a cartoon seen on St. Louis Post Dispatch....Robert Matson....
Sanitized book of the month club
Buy Mark Twain's updated, N-Word deleted Masterpiece today,and get these extra cleaned up classics free!
Conflict and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
To Put to Sleep A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Call of the Natural Habitat by Jack London
Moby-Penis by Herman Melville
Crime and Corrective Detention by Dostoevsky
The Waste Recycling Land by T. S. Eliot
The Grapes of Anger Management by John Steinbeck
Funny , eh?
Any comments?
Very well said, Christopher!
Ok, not to trivialize your thoughts, Eric, also think about teachers in fear of their jobs due to doing exactly that. Believe me, I personally know some that lost their job by standing up,and rocking the boat. So, I can see both sides. What is sad is our administrators are not willing to support their teachers,and the general public are ignorant,and stupid,and don't want their kids to think for themselves, unless said students agree with their parents. Until society allows teachers to teach,and be supported, it's only going to get worse. Parents, at least a good majority, are pretty much unsupportive,and have no respect for education, or those who are trying to help their child get a good job,and to be a success. Parents are more concerned about protecting their kids from everything,and not allowing their kids to grow up with minds of their own. As long as you stroke the child's ego, accept all the mediocre trends in all their child's endeavors,praise them to the highest hilt anyway, you're then left alone as a teacher. Isn't that sad??
ok,dick, could you be more specific. No to santized, or no to Eric's last comments? I am curious. gary
I have listened to this double cd numerous times. Garrison, Jimmy,and Clint are fantastic in their roles on the cd. The music is great,and fits right into the life of Twain. You don't know what you are missing by not owning this Cd. It gets better and better everytime I listen. See the website above to order.
Go to the Mark Twain Boyhood Home,and order the double cd set called Mark Twain: Words & Music.Narrated by Jimmy Buffet, Garrison Keilor, & Clint Eastwood. Music by Sheryl Crow, Emmy Lou Harris, Brad Paisley and others. It's fantastic,and worth multiple listenings, plus it benefits the home in Hannibal.
Wow! How profound. What's sad is so many teachers & schools are terrified to do exactly what you just said,and said so well.
surely eric u are being satirical or sarcastic when u suggest brain surgery 2 keep people from reading what they want, and 2 think on their own?? 2 protect them from various ideas? history? common terminology of the times? surely you jest?
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Any thoughts or comments on Hemingway's quote? Agree? Disagree?
Exactly, Ivan! More input folks????
ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN.Ernest Hemingway
