To be honest, I've never read much Mark Twain in the past. I've read little things here and there in some of my classes but I've never read the classics like Huckleberry Finn or Tom Sawyer. From these previous stories I think I've gotten a good grasp of what Twain's humor is like.
Being a graphic design major who is hoping to do work in the advertising field, I found the bit on Advertising on page 3 and 4 funny. I never knew that this strategy was invented by Twain, and it's funny because we've learned in our visual communications that although this might be an effective strategy, it is a cheap shot. It's good to know that it was originally done as a joke to fool people.
Also I really liked the piece of Facts, on page 73. I was expecting the whole "get your facts straight before you spread them" or something that we hear nowadays. But I thought it was funny how he suggests the reader to distort them after, as if the truth never even mattered in the first place.
Overall, I'm excited to go through this book because I like the way it is arranged by topic, and it's interesting to see how Twain's mind and his humor work.
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