When I was looking around for mycell phone holder, I found this old copy of Huckleberry Finn underneath my bed. I like Mark Twain a lot because I find him eminently quotable. What is weird about the situation is that I really don’t like his books . They just don’t appeal to me. I admire his writing ability and his workmanship though. And when I was a teenager, I had even less time for Mark Twain. I was assigned to read Huckleberry Finn with 3 weeks left in the school year. I was obviously really upset by the assignment . I really didn’t have much respect for that teacher, I thought her to be somewhat of an imbecile . She’d read out loud passages from the novel and act them out in front of us. Whenever a character cursed or used a racial slur, she’d refuse to say it. Instead she’d substitute for each by saying “slave” or “oh sugar” or something else. This teacher claimed that anything written after the 1500’s was not worth reading and the only good writing was done long long ago . She felt that James Patterson and Stephen King would be long gone and forgotten in the near future . She is obviously a dull person because if she were to pay attention to any modern literature, she would notice that the two novelists are the most popular contemporary writers and do not seem to be going anywhere any time soon . The woman has no sense of literary appreciation .