Just finished reading Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. It took me a good long time to read this slim volume and I blame my TV-watching habits for that. Instead of climbing into bed and spending an hour or so reading, I watch TV until I am too tired to keep my eyes open, brush my teeth, crawl in, and turn off the light without touching my book.
Mark Twain gets distracted while telling the story and gets up on his soapbox plenty about capitalism, democracy, nature vs. nurture (it's nurture all the way), religion, and pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, among other things. But he is a hoot and there are some very funny moments. The fascinating thing is the the mirror-within-a-mirror effect of a person in the 21st century seeing Twain's 19th century-ness reflecting the Middle Ages, and back again.
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