Dear Mr. Mark Twain/Mr. Sameul Clemens,
It is 2010 and I am pleased to see you have written an autobiography that we now have on our store shelves. 3 volumes in fact and as they say, your pile of manuscripts was celing high. Remarkable. That said, I am not too keen on giving it a read. I did read the summary in the newspaper today and I am impressed with your fortitude. I did find the idea that your secretary or the woman who took your dicatation gave you a sex toy to be amusing in this day and age. Why you took 100 years to break your stories, I have no idea, but rest assured, you are indeed relevant even this year of 2010 or 5771 years since creation. I must say that I did not give any of your books a read. Huck Finn never really interested me. I did have enough funny friends as a kid to need no other stories, but alas, perhaps one day I may indeed pick it up on my kindle for free. I just actually browsed the beginning of one of your stories called a Horses Story (or somthing like that). It seemed humerous, but that is not my genre of reading! I am quite impressed that you were known as a connoisseur of cigars, as this is endearing to me as I am quite a fond man of the habit (until I quit of course which may in fact be a reality someday).
So kudos to you, Mark Twain. You mesmerize us in this new day and age with your escapades and story.
I must say that when I wrote this blog entry, I really had no intention to read much of Mark Twains writings. I had perused one story and it didnt draw me that much. That said, I think I was just being peevish. I have been reading more and he is really an awesome writer and his story is remarkable. I bought his autobiography and plan to give it a good read over the years ahead. I also got a few copies of alot of his stories and do plan to get to know Tom Saywer and Huckleberry Finn. Perhaps I was the one who was not sophisticated enough to enjoy his contributions. I had not been very orthodox in my approach to what I saw as "yesteryears" literature at some extent. I retract the bitterness that may present itself in this blog entry. Lets take Mark Twain off the shelf!
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