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Summary: Very interesting and exciting to read.
Review: This book is about a teenage boy name, Huckleberry Finn. The main theme of this story is that regular society is trying to make Huck civilized, trying to teach him the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, and for the most part, he doesn't like that. Huck would runaway to seek freedom for himself. In his adventure to freedom, he runs into Jim, a runaway slave. They would both run into different people in different situations, which were sometimes good and sometimes bad. Both of them encountered many different adventures together. Must read if you want to know what happens at the end. Would they find freedom for themselves or would they get back at being civilized? I liked this book because it is very interesting. I couldn't stop reading it because I keep on thinking to myself what will happen to Huck in his many different adventures to freedom. I would recommend this book to others because it is very interesting to read.
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Summary: i'll try again
Review: this is my second time reviewing this book I think I was too harsh on the people who gave this one star so they scewed me. this book is not some little kiddy novel. You don't understand how amazingly intelligent this book is. The entire thing rips on pre civil war south with subtle but but genious comments about the way things were. Only one thing wrong This book is an example of realism and all through twain rips on romanticism. But is the ending truly realism. If a slave was to run away wouldn't he be hanged. If they would of hung him I think the ending would have been better. Not because I hated jim, in fact he was the best character, but because it fits better with the way twain was writing his story. I also think it would have been the ultimate lesson on how if you believe romanticism sometimes reality can be devastating. But the story is wonderful anyway. Go ahead and buy about ten copies and give them to everyone you know. they'll apreciate it and if they don't its there loss.
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Summary: An important window on the development of American English.
Review: I'm intrigued to read how many modern readers have objected to the "wordiness" of this nineteenth-century masterpiece in their reviews here. By modern standards, it may well be rather long-winded. Or it could just be that we have a harder time understanding the words and phrases Twain uses, which evoke images less familiar to us than they were to his original audience.What intrigues me about this is that Mark Twain himself levelled this same charge of wordiness against James Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking Tales", which were written in the early 1800s. In a famous essay, Twain picked apart Cooper's description of a woodsman making camp, line by line. Each word, each phrase, each sentence was evaluated for its value in setting the scene, and far more than half of each were discarded. At the end, Twain gave his readers his own--much shorter--rendition of the passage, then congratulated himself on having improved it greatly by shortening it. Languages and usage change over time. By John Milton's standards of the mid-1600s, Cooper's sentences and descriptions might well have seemed terse and choppy. By Mark Twain's time, the same sentences sounded long-winded. Today--80 years after Ernest Hemingway taught us to expect our vivid descriptions in telegraphic prose--even Twain can sound wordy, reading Cooper can be an enormous struggle, and few beyond English majors learn to appreciate Milton's "Paradise Lost" as a complete work. But we can learn a great deal about ourselves and our own times by reading popular writers from our ancestors' times. First, it teaches us tolerance, as we see that "the past is a different country: they do things differently there." Second, it warns us that our own ideas, speech patterns and writing styles may also seem quaint, antiquated, ungrammatical--even boring--to our grandchildren. Learning to expect this can help us avoid taking ourselves and our times quite so seriously. Life goes on, and so does the language.
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Summary: A young runaway as sternwheeler America's "Don Quixote".
Review: I first read this book (unabridged) when I was in grade school, and it is still one of my favorites. I was fortunate to discover it on my parents' bookshelf long before it ever occurred to my teachers to assign it to me. In this masterpiece of the road trip, we meet a bumptious, self-confident, self-absorbed young America in person as Huck and Jim hitchhike along its first great highway: the Mississippi River of sternwheelers, flatboats, keelboats, canoes and crude rafts. We see the vast river and its people (with all their warts, quirks and odd ideas) through the eyes of a young white runaway orphan (Huck) and his much-wiser-than-he-lets-on black companion (Jim). This is the same Mississippi River highway that Abraham Lincoln saw as a young man, when he worked on the crew of a flatboat that delivered goods from the Ohio River Valley to the seaport in New Orleans. If you can forget that it's an assignment to read, notice that each of Twain's colorful characters has his or her own authentic way of damaging the English language (dialect), and let yourself go with the flow, I think you will find this to be a wonderful story with many delightful surprises. The journalist Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" is to America before the Civil War as the impoverished cavalier Miguel Cervantes' "Don Quijote de La Mancha" is to the underside of imperial Spain at the time of the Spanish Armada. In both books we see a rough-hewn society in the midst of rapid cultural change through the eyes of a pair of puzzled innocents. To a first approximation, Huck Finn is Don Quixote, and Jim is Sancho Panza.
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Summary: Twain's masterful command of language and storytelling
Review: Most of the "boring" reviews are obviously written by people who cannot write gramatically nor well. This novel is America; tough and free.
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Summary: This book is boring school should not make you read it.
Review: I read this book in 10th grade and it was so boring. I understood it but it was not interesting. I mean what is so wonderful about a crude and disgusting boy who needs a bath and a brain. Though i did find something postitve about it... it can be used against the enemy in a time of war!
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Summary: This book has no point...that's the point!
Review: After reading many of the reviews below, I have come to the conclusion that perhaps this novel should not be taught at the high school level. Personally, when I read "Huckelberry Finn" my junior year, I thought that it was an enjoyable break from reading other early American classics, but judging from some of the reviews, others didn't agree. I don't understand exactly what was considered so "boring" about this novel. This book provides the reader with action, humor, and morals; what any 'classic' should do. For those who think of themselves as highly intellectual and felt that the novel didn't have a point, you may want to check your IQ, because I think your ego is in for a massive let-down. Although Twain clearly states at the beginning of the novel that he doesn't want his readers to try to find a point in his 'coming of age' story, the theme of the novel almost smacks the reader in the face. The 'point' is that friendship is more important than social standards and sometimes you have to put yourself at risk in order to save those that you care about. This classic will remain so as long as those who are forced to read it lighten up a little and actually open their minds to a great piece of literature.
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Summary: boring, no point, rambling on
Review: the dumbest book i have ever read i feel it is a waste of time and i would not read it ever again
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Summary: B O R I N G
Review: I was required to read this book for my first year university humanities class and I found this to be the most tedious book to read due to all the slang and improper english. Each page took me twice as long to read as a regular book because I had to understand what was actually trying to be said. Don't waste your time reading this book.
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Summary: The best novel ever written!!!
Review: This is book is completely amazing! It was required of me to read this book for my AP English 11 class during the summer and I found it to be the most classic book ever written. I say this because it showed me the different events that young Huck experienced. Through his adventures, he was able to understand himself and where he belongs in world full of discrimination and prejudice. Mark Twain does an outstanding job in constructing the sequence of events in this book. The adventures that Huck encounters happens almost immediately after the preceding adventure. This type of plot allows the reader to stay interested in the feelings and trials that the characters had to endure. Mark Twain also related situatins that were currnet in his time and applied them to this book. After reading it, I saw how ignorant the people were and how they made such arbitrary decisions in there time. Overall, this book is highly recommendable. It will give readers a broader sense of understanding of Mark Twain's society. This is a great book!
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