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OBIO

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Since I just finished reading a book called "Brute: The life of Victor Krulak, US Marine"...which I recommended in another thread.....it was time to open my library and find myself another book to read. This time...it is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. But not one of those new fangled paper backs.....no.....this copy was printed in 1912....third edition. There is something about the smell of well preserved old books that appeals to me...I know....kind of an odd thing to hear someone mention the smell of old books....but there it is....I like the smell of old books....the feel of that old paper under my fingers. And...with this being a much older copy of the book.....it is still true to the way Twain wrote it. Some of the new printings of the book have been heavily "politically correctified" to remove the offense language and wording.

Tim
 
Lol....and here I am using my Kindle Fire whilst sitting on the "throne".......all this new fangled technology is just gettin' out of control.....:icon_eek:
 
I remember reading "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" as a child in the UK and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was a book-worm back then (I still am I guess) and would read anything that came my way. By the time I hit the final year in Junior School (for North Americans that would be about age 10-11) they were having to bring reading books in from the High School across the street as I had read everything in my school!
 
its nice to see people who still like to read books,i have some very old (to me)Agatha Christie books i cherish,but i enjoy Mark Twain,Ray Bradbury,Rex Stout,Zane Gray(who my great grandfather was not only a construction worker for,but they became life long friends)...my favs are the Rex Stout stories ( Nero Wolfe) and Agatha Christie ( Poirot and Miss Marple).

Obio..have you read "Chicken Hawk" by Robert Mason yet?...its a autobiography i guess ..about Masons time in the first air cav in Vietnam..he tells about when he entered the service and learned to fly helicopters.to smuggling drugs...its very good..i recommend it to ALL my SOH friends
 
OBIO said:
it is still true to the way Twain wrote it. Some of the new printings of the book have been heavily "politically correctified" to remove the offense language and wording.
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I know what you mean. I recently came across some early books by Victor Appleton and one: Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle, was an eye opener. The language and situations would never pass scrutiny today.
 
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