Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford Mark Twain)

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Summary: good book...........................
Review: This is a very good book, because it had show you what happen can a kid be, and it told you how evil and lovely in ths world.

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Summary: Wordy and Dull
Review: Twain has over used words once again. I wish someone would have told him that it's quality, not quantity. Overall, I found that characters I wanted to stay died and characters that I wanted dead stayed, making for a tedious and dull read.

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Summary: An American Classic
Review: To everyone who said this book was simply a children's story--you obviously don't understand this book. It is a brilliant satire about slavery and about the conventions of society. When I first read this book I didn't quite understand it either and just blew it off as another tedious book we had to read for school. But after reading it and discussing it in AP English, I discovered just how brilliant it was. Huck is caught in an eternal struggle between doing what society tells him is right and doing what he feels in his heart. It's a classic Pikaresque type novel, and a funny one at that. A lot of it's humor is in it's irony. And it pokes fun at religion, war (mobs), slavery, and society in general. I suggest those of you who disliked it should read it again. It is a truly great novel.

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Summary: Audiobook last 1/3 is re-written
Review: I am a very big fan of Mark Twain and Garrison Keillor but was suprised to learn that the last 1/3 of this American Classic was re=written. Keillor uses his own style and craft to appeal to the listener. I found this audiobook entertaining but I wish I had known it was not the original story I have read 4 times since childhood.

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Summary: The best American novel of all time, period!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is the best book ever. I read it for AP English and was dreading the assignment. But when I read the book I was completely blown away. The overall message of the folly of prejudice was nothing but the purest satire ever created. The writing was directed toward a mass audience with a heroic purpose, and the intellectuals of the time understood the message. Segregation, prejudice, and the devil of SLAVERY were so aptly addressed and yet, so subtly that it went over the heads of the non-intellectuals of the time. Hailed as a masterpiece of an adventure story it was so much more. Some reviewers have hinted at homosexuality in regards to the relationship between Huck and Jim. There was nothing but an honest friendship between the two. MAD PROPS to my main man, Mr. Samuel Clemens (a.k.a Mark Twain).

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Summary: American themes
Review: Twain's accidental masterpiece was meant to be merely a boy's adventure, a sequel to the engrossing "Tom Sawyer." But lo and behold, it became an important comment on race and character. It also commanded the colossal metaphor of the Mississippi river journey, which haunts American literature as does Melville's white whale. Toward the end, unfortunately, Twain suddenly remembered he was supposed to be writing a comic adventure for boys, and it kind of peters out. But not before it has made itself an important milestone, deft in its use of point of view and wit to handle difficult issues.

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Summary: Good book, but not a classic
Review: I liked the beginning and the end, but the middle was dull

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Summary: America's Quintessential Novel
Review: Huck Finn is, along with Faulkner's Sound and Fury, the greatest American novel. The novel is a hillarious slap at romantic chivalry, a great adventure story, an evolution of a man coming of age, as well as a plea to end slavery. I too was forced to read this novel in high school (this year), not once but twice. I am indebted to my teachers. The sinking of the Sir Walter Scott, Huck's decision to endure perdition in order to save Jim, and Tom and Huck's quioxic rescue of Jim are some of the most fantastic scenes in literature. The vernacular is well employed by Twain, not in a racist way, but in a tolerant one. As Huck travels farther into the slave country, he realizes that Jim is a man just like himself. Huck even says that "I knowed he was white." Huck understands the implications of disagreeing with the orthodox barriers of the time (Walter Scott), but he knowingly violates these supposed values to set Jim free. A boat accident occurs and the response to the question of whether anyone was killed is "Nome. Killed a nigger." Twain is satirizing the stupidity of this response, not advocating a racist dogma. Jim and Huck discuss the fact that frenchmen talk in a different manner from themselves, but frenchmen are still men. Huck and Jim speak differently, but both are men. This is the messege of this timeless classic. All American novels come from one novel, Huck Finn. If I'd a know'd how hard it was to write a review, I wouldn't a written one in the first place.

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Summary: not the best
Review: I like many others was told to read this book. I can say that this book bored be to death. This book can be writen in 50 pages NOT 200. Thats a waste of 150. At one point maybe it was a great book. But hell, now its a waste of time. And why read the book when the movie is out?

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Summary: A wonderful adventure down the river of your imagination.
Review: Huck Finn is a vivid character, endearing himself to the reader as he contends with the obstacle course artfully set before him. As a child of perhaps 12, I first read this book and was caught up in the adventure. I was delighted with each new predicament, anxious to have Huck extricated from it and on his way to another exciting experience. If you want to lose yourself in a book, this is a good choice. Not only is it entertaining to read, but there is also substance to it. One of the things I appreciated about this novel was that Huck was a genuine free spirit, with true beliefs, untainted by the enslaving power of society. (I envy him still today.) The author's wisdom shines through this young fellow's heart and soul.