( 5 reviews )
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jul 16 2007
This book was recieved in about a week and a half. Better than I had thought! It's a good book. It reads very quickly and sent chuckles flying out of my mouth every few pages. If you like Twain you'll adore this book. If you don't, you'll still chuckle.
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( 2 of 2 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 16 2007
This quote is Adam's final assessment of Eve; the true Eden is within us not a patch of picturesque landscape full of artificial harmony. I'm sure, had he died first in Mark Twain's vision, Eve would have said similar of Adam. This is a wonderful, imaginative and amusing piece of writing - short, but with wisdom. I will never forget Eve trying to get stars out of the night sky to place in her hair - first with a big stick ('they must be so far away,' she complains) and then with clods of earth! I will never forget the speculations - how did the milk get into the cow? And the 'scientific' tests to prove the various theories! Adam and Eve (and their children right up to Twain's own time) are fanciful imaginings in these writings but they are brim full of character and personality.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 5 2007
The Diaries of Adam and Eve is a great book for pleasure reading or for research. It isn't as well known as some of Twain's other works, but it displays his amazing wit and sense of humor. Adam is a couch potato, while Eve is a stereotypical chatterbox. The book is set up as a series of diary entries by both Adam and Eve. These entries tell the creation story in a fresh, amusing way. Twain may have been influenced by Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost."
