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4.0
"Then thirteen hundred miles of desert solitudes; of limitless panoramas of bewildering perspective; of mimic cities, of pinnacled cathedrals, of massive fortresses, counterfeited in the eternal rocks and splendid with the crimson and gold of the setting sun; of dizzy altitudes among fog-wreathed peaks and never-melting snows, where thunders and lightnings and tempests warred magnificently at our feet and the storm-clouds above swung their shredded banners in our very faces!
"But I forgot. I am in elegant France, now..."
This was a rather fun book. "Can-cans.." is really an excerpt, a couple chapters from Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad", telling his experience on an 1850s cruise touching on the Azores islands, Morocco, France, Italy and a little of Greece. Twain offers interesting vignettes of the cultures he finds, interrupts them with amusing anecdotes, facetious, self-aware irritation and even some adventure. Twain also reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut. So yeah, I'd recommend it.
"But I forgot. I am in elegant France, now..."
This was a rather fun book. "Can-cans.." is really an excerpt, a couple chapters from Mark Twain's "The Innocents Abroad", telling his experience on an 1850s cruise touching on the Azores islands, Morocco, France, Italy and a little of Greece. Twain offers interesting vignettes of the cultures he finds, interrupts them with amusing anecdotes, facetious, self-aware irritation and even some adventure. Twain also reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut. So yeah, I'd recommend it.
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