"Roughing it" is by far the best of Mark Twain's books. I've always loved Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ( too often dismissed as a children's story than the great work of literature that it is) but Roughing It is a captivating and intriguing look at the old west through the eyes of a brilliant and insightful man who could dig over, under, and around any rock and come out on top with everything carefully explained and taxonomically organized.
Mart Twain on the B of M:"The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James’s translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel - half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained; the former natural, but grotesque by the contrast. Whenever he found his speech growing too modern - which was about every sentence or two - he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as ‘exceeding sore,’ ‘and it came to pass,’ etc., and made things satisfactory again. ‘And it came to pass’ was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet."
Latter Day Saint scripture have yet to have been proven as fraudulent works. Especially since Paul Gregersen debunked the arrogant Egyptologists, the anti-Mormons are having nightmares.
"Roughing it" is by far the best of Mark Twain's books. I've always loved Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ( too often dismissed as a children's story than the great work of literature that it is) but Roughing It is a captivating and intriguing look at the old west through the eyes of a brilliant and insightful man who could dig over, under, and around any rock and come out on top with everything carefully explained and taxonomically organized.
Mart Twain on the B of M:"The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old-fashioned sound and structure of our King James’s translation of the Scriptures; and the result is a mongrel - half modern glibness, and half ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained; the former natural, but grotesque by the contrast. Whenever he found his speech growing too modern - which was about every sentence or two - he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as ‘exceeding sore,’ ‘and it came to pass,’ etc., and made things satisfactory again. ‘And it came to pass’ was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet."
Latter Day Saint scripture have yet to have been proven as fraudulent works. Especially since Paul Gregersen debunked the arrogant Egyptologists, the anti-Mormons are having nightmares.
He also called the Book of Mormon chloroform in print which I really like
Sounds like he thought Brigham was a bit of a skunk? 🦨
Brigham Young had a transgender child
Given he had so many it's guaranteed he had a few gay too.