Books like The Works of Mark Twain

Dick Baker’s Cat by Mark TwainSamuel Clemens is worldwide famous for his humor. He is also better known as…Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have been included among the best books ever written, by the scholars and writers who have compiled a list for The Guardian. Although I am not sure if the Guardian was the original initiator of this project, the newspaper is the one which gave it gravitas.I think I have read somewhere that the idea to rate the best book ever, was brought to life in Scandinavia. Critics and writers have been asked to compile their list of the best books and the resulting top 100 was then published. They have all agreed that Don Quixote was the best book ever to be printed. The whole world seems to be represented, although China, with the Stories of Lu Xun, may be under represented, if we consider the sheer size of it.Mark Twain has a collection of very interesting humorous stories, some of which have been “reviewed” at www.realini.blogspot.roThis is where I am trying my hand at some stories of my own, in order to be more honest. For some time, the reviews I produce include more thoughts on my own stories than what the writer had in mind.Sure, we can never write accurately about what the artist <>…and this is how I came to feel that I might as well talk about the impressions in my head while reading the book, or just keeping the book in my hand, or have some read it in my ears. In that sense, the review is fair: this is what Clemens made me think with his story…I started reading about this cat, which made me think of my own Burmese, which is called Ndugu. She was thrown at the garbage dump as a baby and so on. Sometimes it is the story which does not capture the whole attention or just sends the imagination flying, but not within the realm of “this” story, but outside of it.Trying to say at least a few words about Dick Baker’s Cat – he was called Tom.He lived in a mining area and a reputation of being an… excellent miner. But that’s just the author being funny in my view.Tom would not eat rats, which he felt was beneath him.It is a short enjoyable story, even if it made me think along a parallel line: Ndugu, the infamous “Felix the Cat”, who is a …”fat cat”, what else, in Romania…Tom did not have enough grip in his imaginary, fiction claws to keep me within the pages. I flew away.