This book helped me through some tough sticky points in therapy. I finally understood what I was unconsciously looking for, and why. Although a psychiatry textbook, It is moderately easy for a lay person to read. A perfect adjunct to working with a good therapist. Dr. Levin is insightful, careful, and illuminating. This book is full of trenchant advice for professional and lay person alike. Don't miss it.

I believe that Mark Twain, the most discpicable writer of the modern era, has made a mockery of literature. This book incorporates both poor language skills and a prejudice towards slaves and young men. I believe that this book, along with every other Mark Twain book, should be burned. if Mark Twain was still alive, I would like to burn him as well.

Until I read TS Eliot's critique of Huckleberry Finn, I didn't understand the book. The point that Tom Sawyer is the actor/director and Huck the audience, wallflower, altruist--is a simple fact I simply overlooked.

Eliot's reading of the book's final line makes a thoroughly entertaining read deeply melancholy. And if what Hemmingway says about Twain is true, namely, that Huck Finn appears in one way or another in every work of American Literature thereafter, it sheds light on the melancholy and loneliness that is American literature in the modern age.