The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain

I don’t know how many people have read “The Diaries of Adam and Eve” but it’s honestly probably the only one of Mark Twain’s works that I ever fully enjoyed. I think I gave “Tom Sawyer” 4 stars, but “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and the constant use of the “n” word turned me off that book very quickly. And I never fully read “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”.

“The Diaries of Adam and Eve” are great, it goes back and forth between the two of them as the are created by God and awaken in Eden. A lot of people say this is a love story, and really it is, when you get to that ending…it always makes me choke up.

The short story starts off with Adam dealing with “a creature with a good deal of hair”. I also cracked up at how Eve starts naming things right away, such as Niagara Falls, so that gives you an idea of where Twain sticks Eden. Though I did laugh at Eve trying to call The Garden of Eden, Niagara Falls Park. No offense, I like Adam’s name more. The diaries of Adam though shows a man at his wit’s end with this new creature that won’t leave him alone. Of course we hear about Eve and her trying to get to apples out of the forbidden tree. And of course when she finds a fish named Cain. And of course then comes Abel. I do love how it ends though with him being more verbal and how there are more children and that he still distrusts Cain.

Eve’s diaries though are more insightful and I maybe laughed at her being so happy to talk to him and if you read his version that man was running from her every chance he got.