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steven_nobody's review
5.0
Nice work
The Dog's Tale is a tear-jerker! In his late works, Twain brings up a few times the concept that sinful humans can go to Heaven but animals (who are sinless) are denied happiness. This story is the best of those.
The Dog's Tale is a tear-jerker! In his late works, Twain brings up a few times the concept that sinful humans can go to Heaven but animals (who are sinless) are denied happiness. This story is the best of those.
ederwin's review
4.0
I generally avoid comics created from "Classic" fiction. I fear that the shortening of the stories will inevitably dumb them down. My fear was not justified in this case.
I particularly enjoyed this version of [b:The Mysterious Stranger|102564|The Mysterious Stranger|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1365463862s/102564.jpg|908563], a bleakly funny story picking apart contradictions in the stories of a good "God" and an evil "Satan". It was one of the last novels Twain tried to write. He went through multiple versions and never quite finished it. Even if he had finished, I think that the shortened version here works very well, and perhaps better than the longer originals. (Twain's other work in a similar vein, such as the diaries of Adam and Eve, while pointed and funny, are not as much fun to read as more modern takes on those ideas, but could be made more amusing by an adaptation.)
The story [b:Advice to Little Girls|16057518|Advice to Little Girls|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356353500s/16057518.jpg|483114], being a set of short sarcastic aphorisms, is well-suited to the addition of illustrations, with different artists for each.
Here [b:A Dog's Tale|268232|A Dog's Tale|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1224916096s/268232.jpg|260031] is accompanied by images that make the story seem to be about racism, and man's inhumanity to man, rather than just about the mistreatment of a dog. I don't know whether that was actually Twain's intent, but it works.
I enjoyed all the stories, but those three stand out. Note that different editions of this book contain some different contents. I read the first edition, which does not contain "Tom Sawyer Abroad".
I particularly enjoyed this version of [b:The Mysterious Stranger|102564|The Mysterious Stranger|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1365463862s/102564.jpg|908563], a bleakly funny story picking apart contradictions in the stories of a good "God" and an evil "Satan". It was one of the last novels Twain tried to write. He went through multiple versions and never quite finished it. Even if he had finished, I think that the shortened version here works very well, and perhaps better than the longer originals. (Twain's other work in a similar vein, such as the diaries of Adam and Eve, while pointed and funny, are not as much fun to read as more modern takes on those ideas, but could be made more amusing by an adaptation.)
The story [b:Advice to Little Girls|16057518|Advice to Little Girls|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1356353500s/16057518.jpg|483114], being a set of short sarcastic aphorisms, is well-suited to the addition of illustrations, with different artists for each.
Here [b:A Dog's Tale|268232|A Dog's Tale|Mark Twain|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1224916096s/268232.jpg|260031] is accompanied by images that make the story seem to be about racism, and man's inhumanity to man, rather than just about the mistreatment of a dog. I don't know whether that was actually Twain's intent, but it works.
I enjoyed all the stories, but those three stand out. Note that different editions of this book contain some different contents. I read the first edition, which does not contain "Tom Sawyer Abroad".
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