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“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

Mark Twain

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That's ok, Twainey, you do you. Meanwhile, in the hereafter, Jane is completely eviscerating you with subtlety and wit, and leaving you knowing she may now be missing a shin-bone but you're totally in need of a new back-bone.
Eviscerating? His is an overboard comment, probably a joke as he was almost never not joking, but the man was also a genius, and The Adventures of Huck Finn stands up as one of the more important books in US history and on race, anywhere or anytime. Backbone the man had.
 
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