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Summary: Dragged out and boring!
Review: I really didn't like this book. Maybe it's because you need an imagination to read it, and mine isn't always there. It just seemed too unrealistic, and I just hated it.
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Summary: MY FAVOURITE BOOK OF ALL TIME
Review: This book is my very favourite of all time. I find it a rich, warm story with incredible characterization. It is THE BEST coming of age novel ever written as far as I'm concerned. I have read the story about 10 times in my lifetime, and I find now that I have to reread it about every five years or so just to set a benchmark in my mind as to what superb writing is. It's not just for kids that's for sure. It's rich, warm, complex and just simply wonderful!
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Summary: A controversial masterpiece
Review: Okay, we all know the plot, so there's no sense in rehashing it; but this book has generated a great deal of heat and very little light lately, it's been banned in some school districts and attacked as racist garbage, so this review will address the question: Is "Huckleberry Finn", in fact, a racist book?The charge of racism stems from the liberal use of the N word in describing Jim. Some black parents and students have charged that the book is humiliating and demeaning to African-Americans and therefore is unfit to be taught in school. If there has been a racist backlash in the classroom, I think it is the fault of the readers rather than the book. "Huckleberry Finn" is set in Missouri in the 1830's and it is true to its time. The narrator is a 13 year old, semi-literate boy who refers to blacks by the N-word because he has never heard them called anything else. He's been brought up to see blacks as slaves, as property, as something less than human. He gets to know Jim on their flight to freedom (Jim escaping slavery and Huck escaping his drunken, abusive father), and is transformed. Huck realizes that Jim is just as human as he is, a loving father who misses his children, a warm, sensitive, generous, compassionate individual. Huck's epiphany arrives when he has to make a decision whether or not to rescue Jim when he is captured and held for return to slavery. In the culture he was born into, stealing a slave is the lowest of crimes and the perpetrator is condemned to eternal damnation. By his decision to risk hell to save Jim, he saves his own soul. Huck has risen above his upbringing to see Jim as a friend, a man, and a fellow human being. Another charge of racism is based on Twain's supposed stereotyping of Jim. As portrayed by Twain, Jim is hardly the ignorant, shuffling Uncle Tom that was so prevalent in "Gone With the Wind" (a book that abundantly deserves the charge of racism). Jim may be uneducated, but he is nobody's fool; and his dignity and nobility in the face of adversity is evident throughout the book. So -- is "Huckleberry Finn" a racist book? No. It's of its time and for its time and ours as well, portraying a black man with sensitivity, dignity, and sympathy. If shallow, ignorant readers see Jim as a caricature and an object of derision, that's their problem. Hopefully they may mature enough in their lifetime to appreciate this book as one of the greatest classics of American literature. And for those who might be wondering -- this reviewer is black.
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I adore Mark Twain's hilariouse yet thought-provoking book. Not only does he have the talent to captivate the readers interest but also his characters actions and words have a deeper, often satirical, meaning which requires a sheer genius to produce. Huck is my personal hero because he is never short on solutions or a witty remark. I can relate to his social misfit qualities and some of his philosophys. My favorite line is, "A dog will never bite the hand that feeds it and this is the principal difference between dog and man[kind]." I recommend this to anyone who is looking for an easy to read yet not easy to put down book - the one you're always looking for and rarely are fortunate enough to find. ~15 yrs.
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Summary: Of course it's a classic!
Review: . I'll admit I've never been to hot on Mark Twain. But I'm also constrained to say that Huck Finn is a great book. Huck Finn is a great book. And I'ld recommend this edition: 1) it's cheap 2) it's very readable 3) it's the perfect size 4) the type is neither large nor small, but closer to the latter
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Summary: It wasn't meant to be fun. Twain wrote in deadly earnest.
Review: Beneath the surface innocence of Huck's narrative, this is Twain's darkest and most troubling critique of American society before the Civil War. It's much more truthful and insightful than "Gone with the Wind", for example.
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Summary: Good for young readers but not for adults
Review: Reading about two obnoxious bums who call themselves The Duke and The King abusing two innocent and naive people is no fun for me. Finding out that a thoughtless brat, Tom Sawyer, put people's lives in danger for his own stupid amusement doesn't amuse me. I realize that Mark Twain is considered one of young America's finest writers and that this book is considered his masterpiece but I don't like it. My thirteen year old child likes it a lot.
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Summary: "The Adeventure's of Hucklebery Finn"
Review: it was very adventerous, and dare taking
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Summary: What Kind of Influence is HF having on teenagers or adults??
Review: I recently had to read the book HF as a class assignment. As an interacal teenager I had a very hard time understanding and reading the book because the 'N'word is used SO frequently in the book. Am I the only one who finds it offensive? Just because HF is consider an American Classic does it change the meaning of the 'N' word. To me it doesn't make sense! I'm not agruing that it isn't a good book. It has its good parts. It doesn't make sense that because its an "American Classic" its O.K for students to say the 'N'word aloud because it a "Classic", but in any other situations it IS racism. A "Classic" should not be an excuse to state offensive words! What kind of influence is this having on people (especially TEENAGERS!)? We as a nation already have a huge problem with prejudes and racism! Why is racism or offencive words O.K to say aloud, as long as its a "Classic"? Just the next time you start to say Huckleberry Finn is an American Classic and should offend no one, Put yourself in MY shoes, How would you feel?
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Summary: great
Review: It is said that there are two great moments in all of American literature; one occurs in <Moby Dick> when Ishmael joins Queequeg in observing a pagan ritual. The other is found in <Huckleberry Finn> when Huck decides against turning Jim in, even though his soul would rot in hell for it. The point is that Huck really believed that he was going to be damned for helping Jim (which was why the decision was so difficult to make), but was willing to face the consequences anyway. The major letdown of this book is that last part with Tom Sawyer. The book's tone changes suddenly; it becomes almost juvenile. Those last chapters are what's keeping me from giving this book the full five stars. As for the dialects, I had surprisingly little trouble with them even though English is not my first language. A suggestion; if you come across a word you really don't get, try reading it aloud. If that doesn't work, read the whole sentence aloud. You'll be able to deduce what the word is supposed to be.
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