mark twain

I read him as a very young person and he was my favorite. Revisited his works this year, and I didn't enjoy Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer nearly as much. His serious prose is actually solid , though. He has a good style.

A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, but no longer.

>>9823267
vlad pls

>>9823225
the The Mysterious Stranger is great. You should check it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaRouocBes

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2spoopy

As a shit-kicking Southern boy who grew up exploring the woods every day after school Tom Sawyer is one of my favorite books.
Prince and the Pauper is really good too.
I don't know what kind of philosophical questions you're looking for. He doesn't write about nihilistic 2deep4u edgelords so that by itself disfavors him to lit, but in terms of lasting themes I think he captures the magic of boyhood pretty well, and that's possibly a theme that we more and more need to hear in these dark times we live in.

Some of his stuff is hilarious i. e. The Awful German Language had me in stitches. Reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn was a bit of a drag though. Those books seem more like something I would read to my kids or give them to read. I have a bunch of his short stories but haven't read any of them yet.

>tfw Tom Sawyer is just a stupid kid's book and not a 900 page grimdark doorstopper about the futility of existence

American literature.
Not.
Even.
Once.

innocents abroad is top tier. a yankee in king arthur's court and mysterious stranger are great too.