Mark Twain, review of The Book of Mormon
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Well, now, this book seems to be merely a pro Z detail of imaginary history with the Old Testament for a model followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament. The author labored to give his words and phrases the quaint, old fashioned sound and structure of our King James translation of the Scriptures, and the result is a mongrel, half modern glibness and half ancient simplicity and gravity. The latter is awkward and constrained, the former natural that grotesque by the contrast. Whatever. He found his speech growing to Modern, which was about every sentence or two. He ladled in a few such scriptural phrases as exceedingly sore, and it came to pass, etcetera and made things satisfactory again. And it came to pass was his pet. If he had left that out, his Bible would have been only a pamphlet.