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 Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:21 am
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a classic. But classics are supposed to be dull and uninteresting right? ACYKA (the names too long to write again) held my was quite fascinating. A man from Connecticut in the 19th century, Hank Morgan, is transported to the time of King Arthur. He has superior intelligence, and though he is about to be killed, he pretends to be a magician to survive. He helps the technology of the age along, having bombs, guns, education, chemicals, trains, telegraph, and other inventions to make life easier. The book pokes fun at the medieval ages, from Twain's view, but also adulates the simplicity and sweetness of the time. It is considered a failure, but is actually a huge success. However, I would recommend this book for high schoolers or older.
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Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:31 am
I Love Mark Twain, as a person he is witty and funny but there is something about his writting style that I hate. I don't know what it is. I read this book for one of my lit classes and hated it. I thought the story was interesting but there was just something I didn't like.
Perhaps it was that the reader was expected to think that the main guy would remember how to make all this random stuff, or that he knew the exact time and date of a comet.
I did like how much the book makes fun of blind faith and how the villans are Merlin and the church. domokun
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:48 pm
sounds like another book I once read called The Ancient Future
Girl goes back in time to the Arthurian setting. It just so happens her father is a historian (conveniently knowing language, mannerisms, history etc perfectly) and also happens to be a black belt in Tae-kwon-do (so of course she wins the princes adamant respect from fighting and winning against his best fighters blah blah blah)
Story lines like those rarely work, I have only come across one series I didnt mind with that idea. It has to be really well written and have a pretty good spin on the circumstances of their 'teleportations' otherwise it doesnt employ the whole "willing suspension of disbelief" very well
I have little faith in that line of story I am afraid
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:00 pm
Meh! I didn't find that book very interesting, but it did read fairly well - it wasn't confusing or complex.
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:31 pm
the book was fine i just found it boring domokun and something about Twain's writing style I just don't like.
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