tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post9011308616441152566..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: You would never come across anything like this - Tom Sawyer, Sunday-school bookAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-5189502274619159042015-06-13T23:30:34.321-05:002015-06-13T23:30:34.321-05:00I gotta read Bester again.I gotta read Bester again.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-16846854527389278892015-06-13T19:50:18.740-05:002015-06-13T19:50:18.740-05:00American writers have been stealing from Clemens f...American writers have been stealing from Clemens for more than a hundred years. Here's Alfred Bester from his masterwork, The Stars, My Destination:<br /><br />Foyle darted back to his locker and replenished his spacesuit again. He began to weep. He started to gather his possessions -a faceless clock which he kept wound just to listen to the ticking, a lug wrench with a hand-shaped handle which he would hold in lonely moments, an egg slicer upon whose wires he would pluck primitive tunes. . .Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-58972208923569142612015-06-09T23:21:27.557-05:002015-06-09T23:21:27.557-05:00The picture of the boys' economy is a great hi...The picture of the boys' economy is a great highlight of the book.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-21370930907512912015-06-09T22:28:29.603-05:002015-06-09T22:28:29.603-05:00Read this recently (to one of my kids). It's g...Read this recently (to one of my kids). It's great fun, and the stiff kitten and list of goods earned at the fence painting were as vivid in my memory as on the page. Séamus Dugganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00574186409184247059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76696188244530233782015-06-08T22:50:16.270-05:002015-06-08T22:50:16.270-05:00Substitute a lesser crime for the axe murder and y...Substitute a lesser crime for the axe murder and you cover a lot of politicians. I could see Tom Sawyer someday being in the legislature.<br /><br />I think I am finally figuring out how little I know of Twain's later years. I will have to do something about that.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74341840358817494522015-06-08T21:58:00.596-05:002015-06-08T21:58:00.596-05:00amazing how the quote in the first paragraph could...amazing how the quote in the first paragraph could be applied to any number of present day political figures.Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-12746552745067013272015-06-08T21:55:43.890-05:002015-06-08T21:55:43.890-05:00he had such a talent for humor and apparently enjo...he had such a talent for humor and apparently enjoyed exercising it. maybe some malady or brain softening caused his ill attitude in his later years. come to think of it...my wife says i'm too cynical.Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.com