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Summary: A good book for good readers.
Review: This book was fun to read. It was a fast pace, exciting book that made you really think about what times where like during the 1800 hundreds in Missouri. Tom is very clever and always knows what to say when he is in a jam. He is a quick thinker who can charm his friends into doing any task for him. I recommend this book to people who are better then average readers because of the wrong english.
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Summary: I rated this book a 7 because its a good book.
Review: The adventures of Tom Sawyer is a pretty good book. I recommend this book for people who like reading about adventures. I liked that Tom was very adventureous and had fun. The part in the book i liked the most was when Tom was in the graveyard and he saw the murder.
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Summary: it's exciting. It seems more present day than you'd think.
Review: The setting of Tom Sawyer is from late 1800's to early 1900's, so you'd expect this book to be old fashioned. You know the type. Old english words, and the use of old words or objects. But to my suprise, the book had a present day feeling. The book could have taken place in the 1990's and be virtually the same. The characters are detailed and realistic. They dont do or say anything out of the ordinary. It gives you the feeling of being there. The setting and the plot are very well done as well. The activities are very well timed. They dont happen all at once. Also the things they get into can be from spooky to suspenceful to halarious. Overall I really reccomend this book. Its has been around for a while now, but its still a classic.
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Summary: adventures
Review: I thought this book was very boring. It was advetures, but not the type of adventure kids are looking for these days. I think that if it was still the 40's or 50's I might like this book.
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Summary: I didn't actually read the book but my grade did the play
Review: In my school, the sixth graders put on a play before they graduate to middle school. We did Tom Sawyer. It was great. I played School Mistress Dobbins. My friend Travis played Tom Sawyer. He was great. I am still in sixth grade and I still know all my lines! I even got to smack Travis!{It was really snapping a clipboard backstage} Travis, if you read this review, I'm just saying that you were great out there! But anyway! I guess I should read the book now- right?
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Summary: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer good book with bad english.
Review: I mostly enjoyed this book. I thought that some of the english was wrong and hard to read though. Mark Twain didn't refer to African-Americans correctly, either. Despite all of this, it was a good story. It was full of adventure. Tom mis-behaves and gets others to work for him. Tom is pretty funny with what he does. Look at the cover. He got other kidsto do something. To find out how, read this book!
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Summary: Very interesting and adventurous
Review: I thought the book was very enjoyable to read.The imagination that had to be used for entertainment, really amuses me. I'm sure if T.V. and video games were not around, many kids today would be able to experience life like Tom Sawyer. The story overall was very imaginative and one that's fun to read
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Summary: A return to childhood.
Review: Although I have always enjoyed Mark Twain's work--his Diary of Adam and Eve is one of my favorites--I've never read Tom Sawyer. Recently I found a small book from the Barnes-Nobel collector's library and decided to read it. That particular issue is probably not the best to use, especially for a first introduction because it is badly edited and exhibits an inordinant number of spelling errors and misplaced words. Certainly for a volume one will use for quotations in any paper one writes a better copy, like the one above, would be more desireable.
Despite his depression in later years, Mark Twain captures the sly sense of humor and dry wit that is a characteristic of American humorous writers: O'Henry and Will Rogers, among them. This is well illlustrated in Tom Sawyer, a novel about being a kid, not just in the 1880s but any time. Twain gets right into the heart and mind of childhood, it's myths, superstitions, trials and victories, even it's great philosophies: "He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain (p. 25)." (The latter a gloss on the whitewashing of Aunt Polly's fence.)Truly a Twain and truly a joy. For THOSE WRITING PAPERS: in English literature. How might Twain stack up against a modern humorist? What types of things make this a "dated" work? Why does that datedness appeal to many readers. How is Tom like modern children? Mark Twain was an adult when he wrote the book. Do you think that that fact makes the story less about a child and how he views the world and more about how an adult remembers being a child? Watch a film about Tom Sawyer. How has Hollywood reworked the story? Does seeing some of Tom's adventures help one enjoy them more? Or does getting "inside his head" through the book make it more enjoyable?
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Summary: Delightful
Review: Here is a truly rare gem -- a classic book which can also be described as "easy reading." Most books which inhabit the world of famous literature demand a great deal of concentration and reflection on the part of the reader in order to be properly understood and appreciated. Not so Tom Sawyer. This is a breezy and light-hearted book which takes the reader on a journey through the innocent and universal adventures of boyhood. Mark Twain was a writer who was completely in touch with his "inner child." I doubt that any adult could read this book without recognizing pieces of themselves in the thoughts and actions of Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, and the other characters. They dig for buried treasure, play with captured insects during class, and keep the adults in constantly revolving states of worry, agitation, and relief. Humor abounds throughout this story. Every chapter practically commands you to smile and reminisce about your own childhood adventures. Serious morals about honesty, compassion, greed, love, jealousy, justice, and responsibility are numerous here as well, but they are presented in such a quaint and unpretentious manner that they are easily digested by readers of any age. I have a one year-old nephew who will definitely be receiving this book as a birthday present in a few years
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Summary: Suspenceful book, easy to keep reading
Review: The "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain deserves three stars. The book is fantastic with much needed suspension and twists, like having a young childish love thrown in with terrible, mischievous boys. Then showing the loving sides of the most wretched people like Huck who comes off as hating the world and everyone in it. When Huck and Tom go back into the cave to get the treasure but Huck learns to realize that money will not make him happy is a very good lesson hidden within the book. The ending is the rough part it starts good with Injune Joe dying in the cave, which is all together weird and does not keep the nature of the book going. Then after the treasure parts the book just ends abruptly with no real closing almost as if there isn't going to be another novel to expand on but it doesn't bring a real definite closure to the boy's lives and what they are all about after their experiences, just that they want to be robbers. Over all, the book was very easy to be caught up in until the ending, which was a little disappointing since I wanted to know more about what Tom and Huck were going to do and what they learned from everything that happened.
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