This Audio Cassette Book item from New Millennium Audio was reviewed on 12-Dec-2008. Search ISBN:1931056293 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. Letters from the Earth Reference Book. Classifications : Twain, Mark ( T ) Authors, A-Z Books on Cassette Audiobooks Formats Custom Stores Specialty Stores Books General Books on Cassette Audiobooks Formats Custom Stores Specialty Stores Books Literary Clas . Related topics: Twain, Mark. ( T ). Authors, A-Z. Books on Cassette. Audiobooks. Formats. Custom Stores. Specialty Stores. Books. General. requestid: 9323c20e-7c33-44dd-a087-6a40b82d948b
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1) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. Letters from the Earth / 0-06-092105-6
Whatever else may be said about Twain, it cannot be denied that the man had a biting satirical sense of the foolish and he displays his wit most superbly in this posthumous collection of his musings.
The religious commentary here is biting and is worthy of a place next to Russell. Twain alternately employs his cutting wit to the foolishness of certain beliefs (most men desire sex to the point of risking heaven to achieve it, yet they imagine a heaven - the most wonderful place possible - as a place with no sex; most men prefer never to sing and never ever to sing in public, yet they imagine a heaven of ceaseless, eternal singing; etc.) and his scathing moral outrage to other points of conflict in the Old Testament (Twain particularly cuts on the passages encouraging genocide, rape, and particularly violent rape).
This collection isn´t just limited to religious commentary - one of the best bits involve a Manners Manual detailing the ´proper´ way to rescue people from a burning building, including the appropriate order to help rescue them (Mother-in-laws are last on the list). If you ever needed to know the ´appropriate´ manner in which to propose to a beautiful young lady whilst rescuing her from a fiery conflagration, Twain is here to help!¤ 2) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. Bought this upon the recomendation of Robin Williams in Rolling Stone, and was not disappointed. It´s been a while since I read Finn and Sawyer, etc., but this was a wonderful, adult eye-opener of wit and narrative style. Twain truly was a brilliant man, and his every day genious comes through here in commentary on American life and religion as pointed as any of the current/respected commentators. Reminded me a bit of C.S. Lewis. Excellent and enjoyable read.¤ 3) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. I was disappointed when I received the book. Bernard Devos edited a collection of MT´s late writings entitled _Letters from the Earth_, and that´s what I expected. What I received was just those essays comprising "Letters from the Earth" that comprised a small part of the book. It did not include "Etiquette at a Funeral", "The Awful German Language", "Fenimore Cooper´s Literary Offenses", "On Repentance", and a number of other superb essays and stories.
¤ 4) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. The book was published posthumously, and you immediately understand why by reading the first part, about Satan on holiday on earth, writing letters with his impressions of the place back to his pals in heaven. As with most collections, this one is a bit uneven, with several parts you may want to skip, or that have lost their appeal because of the different time we live in. Nonetheless, many of these pages represent Twain at its most ironic, penetrating, witty self.¤ 5) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. I have a had an old paperback copy of this for 20 years now, so this copy is just a "newer version". I fell in love with MT as a result of this work that I originally read in 1984, and have not taken religion, or anything about it seriously since! It doesn´t get any better then this!¤ 6) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. "I have told you nothing about man that is not true." You must pardon me if I repeat that remark now and then in these letters; I want you to take seriously the things I am telling you, and I feel that if I were in your place and you in mine, I should need that reminder from time to time, to keep my credulity from flagging. In Letters from the Earth, Twain presents himself as the Father of History -- reviewing and interpreting events from the Garden of Eden through the Fall and the Flood, translating the papers of Adam and his descendants through the generations. First published fifty years after his death, this eclectic collection is vintage Twain: sharp, witty, imaginative, complex, and wildly funny. ¤7) Audio Cassette Book Letters from the Earth by New Millennium Audio. If you´re already familiar with Finn and Sawyer, perhaps this collection of fragments, short stories, and essays--assembled posthumously some few decades ago now, but still fresh--will enhance your sense of Twain´s true range. A particular favorite: his essay "The Damned Human Race," wherein he proves, rather convincingly, that an anaconda snake is a higher form of life than an English Earl.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 9-Jan-2009, 19310562939781931056298, 310-440-590-960-560-931-8 |
