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> Mark Twain was a racist. Just read Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

So this is a person who didn't get Huckleberry Finn, then. I can see why people are upset when you take a famous book and then completely miss the point of it.

The premise of the list is fine, but the person writing about it is a moron.

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> I can see why people are upset when you take a famous book and then completely miss the point of it.

That's pretty common, it hardly seems worth getting upset about. My favorite example: Foucault's Pendulum—the person writing the summary on the back of the book clearly misunderstood what was going on in the book. I still laugh every time I read it.

This happens sometimes with Netflix/Hulu/etc. summaries of films. For whatever reason (copyright? NIH?), many of services insist on creating their own capsule summaries for their content, but of course, there isn’t time to actually watch the shows to describe them so sometimes the descriptions are comically incorrect. The one I can remember was Hulu’s description for the series Kings (an actually pretty interesting retelling of the David/Saul/Jonathan story from the Bible in a modern context), where whoever wrote the capsule summary spoke mostly about the kingdom’s flag.

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