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Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court (Cliffs Notes)
by Mark Twain, L. David Allen, James L. Roberts
from Cliffs Notes

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Anti-Catholic polemic dressed up as a classic
  I have always loved Mark Twain since reading Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer as a kid. At one point I had even memorized "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" as a seventh-grader in Catholic school. Twain has always held a sentimental place close to my heart, so when our book club chose to read and discuss A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, I was all for it.
  I had heard vaguely of Twain's atheist mindset and his antagonism toward religion in general. But until I read Connecticut Yankee,... more info

• Love Twain's writing, but not so much in this one
  Although I usually enjoy Twain's writing style, and his sense of wry humor, there was something about A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court that was less than satisfying.
  Some of the situations that the protagonist gets himself into are "classic" Twain. When the narrator is transported back to the time of Camelot, he begins to speculate about rituals, customs and general style of life. There is one part where the townspeople are convinced that he can perform great magical feats (he actually has... more info

• Promising premise, disappointing and remarkably dour delivery
  Twain spoils a promising premise with bloated preachifying, colorless prose, and an uneven, nigh-absurdist plot arc.

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