A review by rubiscodisco
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

5.0

When I last read this book, it was an abridged classics for children, complete with pictures for every page. Of course by read, I didn't actually read it the first time. I was, like, seven, and I just looked at the pictures and didn't read it all the way through. I think that I would have read it though if I had known how fun it was in its unabridged form, since most of this book's wit, humour, and bite would have been unprintable on a children's book.

Twain's view on empires, on monarchies, of the Roman Catholic Church, and meat-headed knight-errantry were delicious, delicious, delicious. Add to that the fact that he is hilarious and that gets this book five stars. There is something to be emulated in a man whose humour is still vibrant after a century.