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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vo. 1" may be a hot seller but Garrison Keillor's review in Sunday's New York Instances E-book Critique wasn't precisely glowing, calling the 4-pound, 736-web page, $35 1st volume a "dreary meander of a memoir."

"The book turns out to be a amazing fraud on the purchase of the Duke and the Dauphin..." wrote Keilor, an creator, humorist and host of radio's extended-running "A Prairie Property Companion".

"...there is valuable minor frankness and independence here and plenty of evidence that Mark Twain, in the hands of academics, can be just as tiresome as anyone else when he is under the load of his very own reputation.

"Here is a powerful argument for writers burning their papers..."

"It is the unfortunate fate of an icon to be mummified alive, pickled by his individual popularity..."

But the public would seem to want the book and publishers are laughing all the way to the financial institution. It is in its seventh week on the Times' very best sellers record (this week at Quantity Two, right powering the memoirs of George W. Bush<br><a href=http://www.dailystrength.org/people/875889/journal>hoteles-rurales</a>

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