Net Chatting Society of Anyone Choosing to Care

When I was looking around for mycell phone holder, I found this old copy of Huckleberry Finn underneath my bed. I like Mark Twain a lot because I find him eminently quotable. However, I don’t really like any of his books. For some reason I just can’t get into them like other books . I have a high regard for his style of writing though . And when I was a teenager, I had even less time for Mark Twain. I was assigned to read Huckleberry Finn with 3 weeks left in the school year. I was obviously really upset by the assignment . My teacher was an idiot as well. She’d read out loud passages from the novel and act them out in front of us. Whenever a character cursed or used a racial slur, she’d refuse to say it. Instead she’d substitute for each by saying “slave” or “oh sugar” or something else. This was the type of English teacher who thought a book had to be a couple of hundred years old to be any good and that everything being written today is trash. She felt that James Patterson and Stephen King would be long gone and forgotten in the near future . Stephen King is probably the most well-read and well known author ever. The woman has no sense of literary appreciation .

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