Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Michael Clemens - GoodreadsVery obviously an early work, and a patchwork of Twain's experiences as he opted to mostly miss the Civil War by traveling into the then-territorial west of North America. This is very much a ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Cheryl in CC NV - GoodreadsThe memoir itself: Rough. Racist. Much prone to exaggeration. Sometimes funny, but sometimes slang & other issues got in the way of comprehension. Lots of uncredited contributions from others, and ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - John Falch - GoodreadsIt's got some good parts, some boring parts and some hysterically funny parts. "Roughing It" is basically bits and pieces of a young Mark Twain's journeys through the American old west and Hawaii. It ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - GoodreadsAs other reviewers have said, this should have really been a much shorter book. It's about Twain's time in the Nevada territory, with some short excursions to other locales, but the last third of the ...
Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Supineny - GoodreadsThe first quarter of Roughing It is really great -- the description of his stage coach trip with to Nevada is great travel writing, laced with irony and sly humor. That it is describing a lost world ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Brandon - GoodreadsHas some comical high points but overall it seemed redundant to me. I got bored. I'm a huge Twain fan but not my favorite. Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Allison - GoodreadsKeep in mind: at this point, I think I've been spoiled by reading a concentrated amount of Twain in a very short period. It's like becoming a truffle enthusiast: even amongst a pile of what is ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It (Enriched Classic)
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Marty - GoodreadsMark Twain is one of the main reasons I went into the English Literature field. For many of my students, that probably is cause enough for desecration to his remains, yet it is undeniable that the man ... Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Paul - Goodreadsa good description (I would gather) of life on the frontier with tall tales interwoven. I found it a bit long and my interest dropped off with Hawaii. If you like reading up on how America developed it's well worth the read. Read full review
Review: Roughing It
Paningin ng isang mambabasa - Baiocco - GoodreadsThis is the first Mark Twain (wouldn't Twayne be a cooler spelling?) that i read besides Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer back in 7th and 8th grade and it was pretty funny but I had to throw in the towel on ... Read full review
