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This is a must read for anyone who has read Mark Twain and appreciates his great sense of humor. There are some great and hilarious adventures in this book that had me laughing uncontrollably in my car many times.

If you enjoyed Huckleberry Finn, you will love this book. The yankee is constantly pitted against Merlin, the chief magician of king arthur's court. Seeing how the yankee uses 19th century technology to defeat the wizard over and over is extremely entertaining.

Here's what the book flap says (more succinctly than I ever could): The tale begins when the "yankee," a skilled mechanic in a 19th century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel, and awakens to find himself being taken as a prisoner to the Camelot of 528 A.D. With his 19th century know-how, the "yankee" sets out to modernize the Kingdom, but is opposed by a jealous court magician. Clever enough, but buried beneath Twain's humor is a serious social satire.

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-- JohnYates - 25 May 2002