The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Summary: A boy of many different adventures.
Review: This book is a good book if you like adventures. Once he has an adventure it gets more interesting and then when it ends. All of a sudden there is another one. Huck has many adventures while trying to free a slave that belongs to his adopted parent. While on his adventures with Jim, the slave, he runs into many dangers and sometimes he comes really close to getting caught. This book is fun and exciting to read and once you start reading it, you want to keep reading.

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Summary: I would like to sanction a zero star rating
Review: Or maybe -5. This book should have never saw print, much less read and loved by generations of Anerican readers. That goes to show how stupid Americans can be. Nor should it be regarded as the novel that inspired all other American novels. Nor should anybody be impressed by the seven or eight dialects employed within the novel's structure, which the fool author made up to fool us into believing people actually talked like that. The story is a couple of people floating down a river, with a number of utterly unsuccessful scenes meant to enhance and define a theme so obvious its not even worth mentioning. Then there is the structure of scenes themselves. Each uniformly the same in length and what occurs except the last where in the scene drags on and on and on and on. Then to top it all off at the end Hucleberry Fin regresses. This is worthless. Anybody who likes this novel is stupid. They have no linguistic intelligence or even logical intelligence. And yes you all should read Dean Koontz who is a better writer than Samuel Clemens ever dreamed of being. He will be our Shakespeare, never Mark Twain. I will come back from the dead to stop that from occuring. This is the worst, well known, book ever written so far as I know in this language

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Summary: The best book ever written in the United States
Review: The negative reviews you are reading are there only because they were written by kids who had to read the book for English class. DO NOT BELIEVE THEM. Twain was a brilliant author who painted an amazing picture of life at that time. One of the best books I have ever read.

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Summary: A young boy and his adventures to save a runaway slave
Review: Heartwarming novel full of unexpected surprises of how a young boy changes through experience. It's one of the most important novels out there!

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Summary: the book seemed a little confusing
Review: this book made no sense at all.i enjoy reading but i did not like this book.it had no point at all and the dialect was terrible.

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Summary: the best american novel ever written
Review: Okay. I can't believe people are giving this beautiful book negative reviews. American Literature was born with Huck Finn. Before Mark Twain, readers had to suffer through truly boring books written by Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Emerson. Mark Twain showed American authors how to WRITE. Mark Twain is the American Chaucer and our greatest writer. If you don't like Huckberry Finn you should probally stick with Dean Koontz.

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Summary: A good book!!!
Review: i likeded the book. i read in spare time when the dark comes. i read sloowly. i like books. i licke Huck Fynn. The dark man makes me laff. If i were smat and lived by a rivar i would go on rivar with a builted raft.

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Summary: A defining novel of America
Review: I have read the past several reviews printed of this novel, and have noticed that the negative reviews are because the reader simply didn't understand the book. This novel is an adventure story brilliantly disguised as a tirade against the civilization of mankind. Twain makes his political points well felt throughout the story, but what saves this novel from being a dry and boring political statement is the grandness of the adventure contained within it. Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim are three immortal characters of literature. Huck especially I will always picture as traveling on his raft, up and down the Mississippi River forever, painting a picture of America that will never be equaled, for the novel was written in a defining time in American culture, when a sense of adventure that separated us from our English ancestry ran rampant throughout our country. A wonderment prevailed, asking questions about what lay out beyond the horizon. Huck Finn defines that sense of mystery. Maybe he was the first truly American hero, and maybe he was also the last. But his words, "I been there before," will be immortal.

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Summary: so very bad.
Review: I'm a 16-year old girl. I had to read this book for English class. I usually enjoy classics (my all-time favorite book is Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men), so I expected to at least be able to tolerate this book. I couldn't. I didn't get past the 12th chapter before I had to buy the Cliffs Notes (I've *never* done that before). Just thinking about the book makes me sick. Boring, rediculous, and full of cliches and stereotypes, this book made me wonder exactly WHY Mark Twain was considered a brilliant author and this one of his best books. At the time of reading this book I had a student teacher, which only made the experience worse. The ONLY thing we ever discussed in class was literary symbolism. I mean, we spent 30 minutes talking about a bowl of fruit!!!! (what did Twain mean by spending so much time describing the fruit? what does the fruit symbolize? HE MEANT TO BORE US TO DEATH AND THE FRUIT SYMBOLIZES THAT ANYONE WHO LIKED THIS BOOK MUST BE STUPID AND ARTIFICIAL!!!) You can probably guess that I did NOT like this book... at all!

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Summary: It was a Great Classic to read again and again.
Review: It caught my eye right when I began. And kept my eye on it the whole time. It's filled with adventures and creative events. You can just picture yourself with Huck in this fully detailed adventure.