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Summary: A Wonderful Anti-Slavery Novel
Review: I read this book in high school and I was blown away. Huck Finn has been on the banned books list for a while, I really don't understand why (except for the unappropriate word that Twain uses). Many people assume its a racist novel because it uses that bad word, but the central theme of this book is that Huck abandons what society has told him, and helps and befriends a run away slave. This book was really great and the ending is... um... interesting!
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Summary: THE ADVENTURE OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Review: The book THE HUCKLEBERRY FINN, by Mark Twain is the best adventure book that I have ever read during the past few years. The book give me a lot of suspenses that kept me continuing to read until I finished with the book. The book describes each and every adventure that Huck Finn goes through with Jim, a slave that he met. There were times when they were in danger and almost died and there were times when they shared precious moments together like father and son, even though one is black and the other is white. This is the book that no one would want to miss if you love to read books that are fill with adventure and exctment.
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Summary: An overrated book
Review: I decided to read the original of this book after illustrating a condensed version for grade school children. I was also drawn to it after reading a comparison between it and Harriet Beecher Stowes "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Harper's Magazine. This book definitely has its highlights, mostly the descriptive passages of the trip down the Mississippi. But in general, it does not hang together. As pointed out by another reviewer, the pretense of saving Jim doesnt hold... directly across the river was a free state, whereas downriver the states became more and more racist with worse and worse laws. There is a good reason why the underground railroad helped escaping slaves North, not South. At various times Huck betrays his "friend" Jim, and the ending is deplorable. Completely nonsensical, how Jim is kept locked up while the boys play jail with him. This is not man against society, but thoughtless, racist young men cruelly playing with others' lives. Huckleberry Finn himself is often held up to be the epitomy of the free American boy, escaping from the mores of a repressive society, whereas I find him to be the epitomy of a society that finds "adventure" in "taming", "saving" and just generally using for its own ends every other society and creature around. I would teach this book in schools, but I am afraid that the lessons learned would differ from the laudatory ones generally assumed to be contained in this book.An interesting fact I learned from the Harper's article was that Mark Twain himself put aside this book several times, unsure of the plot, changing the ending, and was in the end not satisfied with it. For a good book on escaping slaves, complete with realistic escapes and comtemporary language, read Uncle Tom's Cabin. For adventures, read Tom Sawyer. And to shake your head at what is enshrined as great American literature, read Huckleberry Finn.
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Summary: A Mysterious Adventure
Review: This book was very good. At the beginning it wasn't very good but it got better.Huck is a kind of timid boy but Tom is courageous. My favorite part was the jailbreak. The ending was pretty good. It turned out better than I thought it would.
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Summary: Very important book
Review: Any story that makes us all think about what it's like to be a lost little kid trying to make friends and find a home in an incredibly dangerous, deceitful, treacherous world has my full support. This book suffers from a lot of 19th century racism, etc, but the basic feel of it is good for us all to mull over, I think. That's why it's so timeless... Please read it.
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Summary: A journey to nowhere
Review: Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huck Finn" is a series of scathing social commentaries about America of the mid-nineteenth century, barely covered with a minimalist plot. The reader must be forewarned that this Twain's work is drastically different from the high adventure of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". The reader must also be ready to grapple with the Huck's bad spelling (since the entire book is narrated from his naive perspective) and the partway-comprehensible colloquial of the dialog. In my personal experience, the book ranges from mildly engaging during the cynical criticisms, to slow as tar during the "action sequences" (although the action sequences are in themselves criticisms, but the humor factor isn't sufficient to overshadow the action). The plot is paper-thin, and on its own leads virtually nowhere. It mostly consists of Huck and Jim ( a runaway slave) floating down the Mississippi on a raft. This journey quickly loses its point - the pair floats past the free states and just keeps going on. Nevertheless, this premise manages to propel the reader from one parody to the next with a measure of success. The social commentaries themselves are fairly original in content and in that they fit the situations well, but the reader does eventually tire of stupid, drunken, and easily-fooled villagers and the monotonous charlatans and vigilantes that populate the book's pages. An unexciting, although insightful read.
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Summary: Bad Ending
Review: This is a story filled with action and adventure. I loved the plot and the characters, even if I didn't always agree with their actions. My two complaints: The ending-pointless!!, The amount of cusing- I found the vernacular disturbing, even if it is true to the era.
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Summary: Even if its a classic that doesn't make it good.
Review: I had to read this book for summer reading and it was complete torture. It was the first story in America to be done in venecular which made it a classic and hard to read. some how his adventures are nothing but dull are semi-stupid. Huck is not a perfect character and all his flaws seem to be over looked. Jim is merely in the story because he needs to be and although he is not a brilliant person mark twain has not given the slave fair credit by making an unschooled boy half his age seem twice as smart. His story also implied that southerns are stupid just by the way they talk amoung other things. The story ends leaving you unsatisfied with what you that the main character should have learned. Not worth the read unless you want to say that you've read it.
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Summary: Huck fin
Review: This book is boring!!!!!! I am three chapters into the book. It is so hard to read, he rambles on so much, it just puts you to sleep in minutes, and the dialect is so weird, it's confusing because we've been taught proper english and we don't talk like that anymore.
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Summary: An Excellent Portal For A Young Mind
Review: I received this book as a Christmas present in 1955 when I was eight years old. I had wanted a baseball glove and was deeply disappointed. It sat for three years, unread and unwanted. When I finally did pick it up and begin to read, I was transported in a way that was to change my life. It would be years before I would understand the meaning of such words as irony, satire and metaphor, but I sensed these things in the way I believe they were intended as I read Huckleberry Finn for the first time. I am perplexed and disturbed when I hear how thoroughly misunderstood and controversial this book has become to some, and it saddens me that those that deem it offensive fail to understand how sympathetic it was towards more positive race relations at the time when it was written. William Faulkner spoke of what was most important to writing in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature. He suggested that the best writing deals with problems of the human heart in conflict with itself. Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" succeeds in a beautiful and remarkable way by subtly illustrating the conflict in Huckleberry's mind between what he has been told by society and what he feels in the intellect of his heart. I shall always be grateful to Mark Twain for this work. It was the portal through which my young mind first grasped the immensity of great literature.
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