Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Bob Foulkes - GoodreadsThe Innocents Abroad has been on my bookshelf to read for some time. I deflected the imperative to read it by giving it to my son, but when he returned it, I decided to dive in. This is one of Twain's ... Read full review
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - GoodreadsI found myself anxious to read this book expecting to enjoy the application of Mark Twain's wit to traveling abroad in Europe in 1867. The wit was there but hidden away amongst loads and loads of ...
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Mark - GoodreadsI could be wrong, but seeing all the disapproving comments about the racism, xenophobia and other such things in the book, no doubt they reflected the attitudes of many at the time, but I took them ... Read full review
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Fran Darling - GoodreadsAfter finishing a mammoth biography of Mark Twain this past year - I decided I need to read more of his actual works. I read the usual Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn as a young adult, but never ... Read full review
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - GoodreadsEntertaining travelogue full of witty repartee's and rants, tangential asides and observations from a caustic curmudgeon. He was not impressed with Italy and the descriptions through the holy land ...
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Bernard Norcott-mahany - GoodreadsWhen people hear the name Mark Twain, they likely think about The Adventures of Tom Sawyer or its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. But Twain had written a lot before either of those works ... Read full review
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Margery - GoodreadsIf you love to travel -- and even if you don't -- this book is a must read. Twain was able to book passage on a world tour, by ship, that was the talk of the nation back in the day. It was touted as a ... Read full review
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - GoodreadsThis travelogue would never, ever make it to wide release in 2012; at the least, there would be outcry of political inappropriateness, and possibly further, a holy war declared. Twain's disdain for ...
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Tess - GoodreadsThis is massively entertaining, like everything else Mark Twain wrote. He's just as hilarious in non-fiction as in fiction, and you really relate to him as a traveler: being so exhausted you simply ... Read full review
Review: The Innocents Abroad
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - John Harder - GoodreadsTwain's The Innocents Abroad is a travel book, chronicling the escapades and adventures of the roughly 60 passengers on board the Quaker City. The “pilgrims” shuttled about the Mediterranean with side ... Read full review
