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The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County (1901)

by Mark Twain(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0318518899 (ISBN13: 9780318518893)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Filter Press

review 1: I don't feel the need to reiterate what the story is about, considering my fellow readers have done this twenty-fold. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a classic, without a doubt. Mark Twain is an excellent writer. That is if you enjoy broken English with a southern-plot bias. Now, many people enjoy it and I do as well, occasionally. I just don't see how this story, as an individual one, achieved the ubiquitous reverence it has. I would give it three stars, for its clever story line and an interesting sub-character.
review 2: Jim Smiley bets on everything he can possibly bet on. One day he found a frog and trained it to jump. The frog learned to jump further than any frog in Calaveras County. One day Jim met a man that said his frog was no mo... morere special than any other frog. Jim wanted to prove him wrong so he went to find a frog. While he was gone the man filled up the frog with a lot of quail shot. When Jim got back he bet the man that his frog would win. When the frogs went to jump Jim’s frog didn’t even move. The man took Jim’s money and left. By the time Jim realized what had happened the man was gone.Jim Smiley is the main character. He dresses in raggedy clothing and talks with a southern accent. Jim often spent his days betting. He would bet on anything and everything. I would say this usually helped him but ended up hurting him in the end.The book is set in Calaveras County in the spring of 1950.The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was overall a good story with a good moral. At times the book was hard to follow and used many large words and for that reason I would not recommend it to a younger audience. The book was not very good at keeping my attention although it contained some interesting information. I would recommend this book to most people because even though it is hard to read it is not very long. I would give this book three and a half stars out of five. less

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