A collection of related and unrelated Twain writings. He has a (generally) amusing, approachable style. His approach to the Bible, written from the POV of an incredulous Satan watching half-witted mankind declare themselves the sum of all creation, the Apogee, the end-all be-all, and offering up praise to the Lord for every plague, pestilence, war, is funny as hell, but I doubt seriously that he believes that the bible is all that, or all that alone, rather I prefer to think that he's making fun of those literalists that take it's every word as gospel truth. More poking fun at the rubes of middle America (and Alberta), the kind of right-wing bible thumbing Baptists and Evangelicals who want everyone to read a book they but poorly understood themselves.
There then follows the diary of Eve, of Methuselah, and reading it and discover (again) that all our new problems are the same as the old ones, the periodicity; overpopulation, pestilence, hunger, dreams of a techno-utopia thwarted by villainous plutocrats, etc, etc.
These "biblical" stories are followed by a few on different other themes, science fiction, children's tales, and - what amused me most of all - his reviews on travelling abroad - especially when he sees the Albert Monument in London, or St. Paul's, and declines to review the interior (it's in every guide book), but instead writes a few very relatable pages on the courtyards around it, a very modern send-up of the travel review.
Anyways, very much enjoyed but glad it's over. Now what to feed the mill...