A review by ryonjames
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

4.0

Not much to say. Its Mark Twain, he's prodigious. This part, a favorite:

"In one place near at hand, a stalagmite had been slowly growing up from the ground for ages, builded by the water drip from a stalactite over head. The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every twenty minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick - a dessert-spoonful once in four-and-twenty hours. That drop was falling when the pyramids were new; when Troy fell; when the foundations of Rome were laid; when Christ crucified; when William the Conqueror created the British Empire; when Columbus sailed; when the massacre at Lexington was "news". It is falling now; it will still be falling when all these things shall have sunk down the afternoon of history and the twilight of tradition, and been swallowed up in the thick night of oblivion. Has everything a purpose and a mission? Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect's need, and has it another important objective to accomplish ten thousand years to come? No matter."