From the get go, I was expecting something more like The Innocents Abroad, or Huck Finn; what I got was facts, followed by boring recollections, toped off with more facts. If I was looking forward to reading this book from a historical sense, and had I been in the proper mind state, I might be able to say that I enjoyed it on some level, but because I had my expectations set on humor and some good, quick witted ribbings my opinion of this book found itself falling as the page numbers increased.

Now I don’t want to outright bash the book and say it was no good, I simply want to say that I was caught off guard by its straightforwardness. I w

There are some points in Life on the Mississippi that, to me, stand out where twain tried to make the book more attractive to the skeptical Twain reader. The first comes from chapter 16, “Racing Days”. After drudging through the first 15 chapters, I land on this chapter and its title suggests that things are changing and something exciting is going to change the course of the book, but alas, I was wrong. What appears here is nothing more than a brief history and 5 pages of numbers that may not even be authentic.

Another point is the very beginning of the book. When I opened to the first page, and began to read, I had no idea that he would be writing himself out of the book for the better part of 25 pages. There are times when it seems like Twain doesn’t want to be in the story at all, so he does his best to summarize and get back to drawing-on about the river. In chapter 22, he throws 22 years of his life at us in a single paragraph and move on to the

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