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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A good book
Review: It takes place in Hannibel Missiouri. The main charaters are Tom sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. It is about all of toms Adventures and how he is misvois. He has a chrush on a Girl named Becky Thater. Her dad is the Jugde in Toms trial. I like this book because it has alot of adventures. I thought that this book was going to be boring but it was a really good book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: TOm Sawyer Review
Review: I thought that the book Tom Sawyer was relly good. When you read it's like you are there in the book and you are one of the charicters. There is some parts in the book that are boring but it dose not last for more then one chapter, but other then that the book is really cool. You should read this bvook I know that you would realy enjoy it. I know i Enjoyed this book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: good
Review: the adventures of tom sawyer
by:mark twain
It was a very funny book. Tom and huck make a great team when they go on many wild adventures in their small town of Hannible ,Missouri.They go to look for injun joe, an indian.When tom and huck see someone get murdured,they swear to keep mum.But when the wrong person might get hung,tom breaks that promise.Toms Aunt polly is constantly getting on him about being in trouble.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Not Too Interesting for Me
Review: The setting is a small town by a river. Tom Sawyer is a trouble maker and a prankster. His friend, Huckleberry Finn, lives in the woods with a barrel for a home. One night they go into the graveyard and wittnessed the murder of Doc Robinson. Will Tom and Huck tell anyone about the crime???You'll have to read it to find out.
The book was o.k. It's not my type of story so I wasn't really interested. I guess it's because it's an old-fashioned book, I'm more into Harry Potter.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A Very Good Book
Review: Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain, is about a boy growing in Missouri in a small town in the late 1800's. He has a lot of adventures with his friend Huckeberry Finn; and he ends up witnessing a muder late at night. Tom dosen't know if he should tell someone.
I read the book and I thought it was good. I would give 3 stars. It was better than I expected . I thought it would be really boring. I really suggest this book for any reader and this is my opion.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: THE BEST
Review: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a very intersting book.It is full of adventure and exitment.In the book Tom and Huck witness a murder and then agree not to tell but one of them tell. Do you know which one it was¿ After they tell they get into trouble with the killer, he goes after them. All i am going to say is it is very adventerous.
Mark Twain is the mastermind behind this wonderful book. This is a twain classic.Twain has writtin many many wonderful books.Twain was also a stand up comedian and a jokester.Everyone loved Twain for his sence of humor.So if you haven't read this book; your really missing out, so go out and buy it!!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Almost Good Book
Review: The Book Is THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Mark Twain. It is about a boy named Tom Sawyer who grew up in Hannibal, Mo on the banks of the mighty Mississip, in the in the late 1800's. There are many adventures in this book and it is full of comedy. Overall I would give this book 2 of 5 stars because it is a great book but not the best I've read, and I did not like the vernacular style.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: For the Young at Heart--And Those Plagued by Maturity
Review: There seems to me to be an exorbitant number of reviewers who reject this book simply because they find it childish. To quote Mr. Twain from another of his works, "It seems to me that it was far from right for [these critics] to deliver opinions on [Twain's] literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more decorous to keep silent and let persons talk who have read [Twain]." While this excerpt was originally aimed at the critics of James Fennimore Cooper, I find that Twain has been rejected with an equal lack of judiciousness.

Perhaps these wayward critics were just too excited to enter the narrative, or perhaps the first few pages of their copy were absent, or perhaps they find solace in embarrassment, but there is a Preface to Tom Sawyer that explicitly states that the novel was written with the sole intention of a youthful audience in mind--and if adults found pleasure in it, so be it. Apparently some people find it necessary to disregard this caution in an attempt to simply find fault wherever possible. I suppose that's acceptable; it's the human way.

But for those of us who decide to take the time and read Tom Sawyer, we discover a story that--while not as merely limited to a younger demographic as Twain accuses--is indeed a simple recounting of one particular boy's youthful adventures. Of course this book doesn't involve the critical satire of some of Twain's other books, but can you really denounce a novel purely by an aspect void from its original intent?

Tom Sawyer is simple. It's the adventures in a boy's life. It's fun. If Mark Twain had any inclination of a motive directed toward a more mature audience, it was primarily an escape to lost youth, lost innocence--or, inversely--the lost, unwitting wickedness that consumes the mischief of the young trickster. It is merely a series of adventures--that is to say, as adventurous as a small-town boy's life can be, and trust me you'll be surprised.

For those of you not heeding the caution of the preface and pursuing the novel without restraint, there's no wonder you might feel a mite disappointed. Moreover, begin this novel without a hint of whimsy, joviality, regret of maturity, and humor, and you'll no doubt chastise Twain for a worthless piece of literature. The veritable goldmine that lies within this tale isn't its structural beauty, or its thought provoking plot, or--by a long shot--its intelligent characters; what makes this story a classic is the undeniable fun, the escape to bygone days of irresponsible madness, the return to youth that we are all driven further from with every passing second.

In short, Tom Sawyer is what it appears to be, nothing more, nothing less, fun and youth personified in 200 pages of delightful and improbable adventures. Don't be too critical on a work that goes well beyond its meager intentions by accusing it of substandard plot and little moral value, because what prepubescent life has a ubiquitous and mind-blowing plot? What prepubescent life form ever cared about morals, following them, expounding them, or learning them? Perhaps the depth of Twain's novel is all in the challenge to the reader: Are you willing enough to let yourself de-mature from where you are now? Do you have the courage enough? Or does youth frighten you? For those readers hesitating at these questions, it is to you that I recommend this book with even more vehemence: this book may be your salvation from miserly apathy.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Classic!
Review: This is a classic piece of literature that everyone should read...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Bad Bad Bad
Review: The Most horrible book ive ever heard. Its justs keeps going, and gets more boring as it goes.


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