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Only a fraction in, but... Saying this book hasn’t aged well is a huge understatement. Twain is so overtly and hatefully racist toward the “swarthy, noisy, lying, shoulder-shrugging, gesticulating Portuguese boatmen” he meets at their very first stop in Faial in the Azores Islands that I just can’t keep going.

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