Loved itmy November books that I read, including Tom Sawyer, When the Day Comes, Frankenstein, and The Hiding Place. A really good reading month. Everyone is above 4.5 stars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1817)
Others: Overwhelmingly positive Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows these boys as they get into predicament after predicament. Tom's classic whitewashing of the fence has become part of American legend, and the book paints a nostalgic picture of life in the middle of the nineteenth century. Tom runs away from home to an island in the river, chases Injun Joe and his treasure, and even gets trapped in a cave for days with Becky Thatcher. The book is one of Twain's most beloved stories.
- ISBN:
- 9780520343634
- Length:
- 263 pages
Genres: historical fiction, literary fiction, young adult, classics
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Loved it
Loved itThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer however which is you know part of Mark Twain's same sort of series I much preferred it's so much better you can argue with the ball on that one in fact argue with the fence so in the cover of this picture you can see someone painting a fence and that's because in the book Tom Sawyer has to do chores and he like has to paint the fence and all the other boys in the neighborhood start laughing at him then he's like wait why are you laughing I'm having so much fun and they're all like wait if it's really fun then I want to have a go by the end of the day he's got the whole neighborhood painting the fence for him and he's just sitting back and relaxing and now we call that the Sawyer effect it's the idea that if you are introduced to something as being fun you won't see it as work whereas if you're introduced to something as work you will never see it as being playful and fun Tom Sawyer was the original gaslighter and for that reason cloth band classic.