[nsebban]

It's a pity how little most people know Mark Twain. He was so much more than the guy who wrote Tom Sawyer. He had many different and uncommon lifes in his life...A lot of inspiring things too.

His 3 volumes autobiography is a long but amazing read, just like his letters. But my favorite is "Life on the Mississippi". All this is close to 2000 pages but it's worth reading.

[hodgesrm]

Life on the Mississippi is one of my favorites. It's rather discursive and lacks a strong story arc, but the descriptions of working on the river in the years before the Civil War are a window into a fascinating, lost world.