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Summary: This book has a soporific effect.
Review: I was forced to read this book for an English class, and it was an extrememly dull read. The extremely exasperating dialect of Jim is difficult to understand, and annoying as hell. Twain once again shows his bitter cynicism towards everything, with his pointless satire. The satire is not funny, how people find it funny, I don't know. It is a dull, boring, pointless,(insert negative adjective here) book, and I stand by my position that Twain was an idiot.
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Summary: An utter waste of time; hardly a classic
Review: To call this book an enduring American classic gives America a bad name. In England, a country that has produced legitamate masterpieces of literature, this work is often laughed at and deemed "a silly children's book." You can read into this book all you like, but the major crux of this story is a kid and a slave riding down the Mississippi and having lame "adventures". And the ending is so forced and tacked on you'd think the editor just added it on to make the book more than 200 pages. It's too coincidental, even more so than Les Miserables. Truthfully, I had to read this book for school, and I couldn't get past page 30, it was that boring. And the Cliffs' Notes put into perspective how utterly ridiculous and childish this book really is. For those who think this is a classic, I urge you to read Moby Dick, a true American classic. Or maybe The Mayor of Casterbridge, or Crime and Punishment, books by authors not hampered down by the lack of culture in America.
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Summary: Annotation
Review: First published in 1884, this beautifully illustrated Replica Classic is Mark Twain's portrait of the American South during the 19th Century and a friendship that overcomes the societal restraints of the day. Twain transports us down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn, as he experiences the thrill of adventure and discovers the true meaning of brotherhood.,,
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Summary: The lessons of Finn
Review: There is a deeper genius in the adventures of Huckleberry Finn in that the book is written from the perspective of 14 year old boy who is stuggling with what he has been taught and what he learns in this adventure. Huck is fleeing his troubled family life when he comes across, widow Watson's slave, Jim. He decides that he will help him find freedom in Ciaro, Illinois. He and Jim have exciting and at times very chilling adventures. In one great irony of the book, Huck and Jim are swept past the meeting of the two rivers and carried further and further into the slave south. Huck captures the spirit of a nation struggling with his/its conscience concerning slavery. In this book, Huck considers Jim an adventure but comes to respect him as a man who he cares about and a man who cares about him. Huck learns the value of friendship and the value of mutual respect along the way. I would say that the ending disappointed me in that I felt that the reappearence of Tom Sawyer played to the lessening of the lessons that Huck learns along the way. The trick he plays on Jim and Huck for that matter softens the blow that this book should level. My review as with others I have read cannot do this book justice for the very human experience it provides. One must come to grips with an era of American thought which is hard to stomach and not nearly reflected on enough.
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Summary: GOOD STORY
Review: before i read huck finn, i thought that it would be great and book that i'll never forget. Well, when i began to read the novel, it was very boring, no real climatic scenes until huck and jim escape for jackson island. At times, i wanted to throw this book in the trash and say the hell with it, but then i got to a great scene in the book that i'll never forget. If you read this book, you should either read it slowly or get the audio book so you can get the full effect and understand what's going on. Even though there are boring parts in the book, you should still read it and treasure this story because it is one of the greatest books ever written.
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Summary: This book is about a boy who goes on many adventures.
Review: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain This book is intriguing in the fact that I, a country boy, read and understood it. This book is basically about a boy who inherits a lot of money, and he is tired of being cooped up and living rich, so he decides to go on an adventure. He eventually meets up with one of his Negro friends. They go on adventures while trying to not get caught. They meet many good and bad people. If you liked the book "The Hatchet" you'll love this book. I would probably give this book 5 stars and definitely 2 thumbs and 8 fingers-way, way up. So I encourage you to read this book if you like the old kind of stories.
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Summary: What an amazing novel!
Review: I am studying this novel at GCSE, and i find it the most absorbing novel that i have read in a very long time.
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Summary: Good book with a shabby ending
Review: I enjoyed this book until the end. What are the odds of Huck stumbling on to members of Tom Sawyer's extended family? A brilliant writer like Twain could have come up with something a little more believable than that.
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Summary: Great
Review: i am so sick of stuffy headded losers who can't see past their own nose to recognize a good book. i know i am being mean and all, but this was truly a good book. i enjoyed the plot and the characters (i am still a bit confused about all that happened with the king and the duke, though). i subplots made the book all the more interesting to follow. it's character development wasn't blatently obviouse, and the attention to detail made things vivid when they needed to be. i think maybe it takes a lot more dedication and brain to read this book and truly get full benefit. you can't just read it off and on or you will never get the plot. i liked this book (okay, so i'm not all the way done yet, but i'm close) a lot. a real lot except for the whole, er, umm...idea of what black people should be called. couldn't we find a nicer word? oh well. it sotra adds to the story.
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Summary: an exillerating, moving, compassionate masterpiece.
Review: I like peanuts. They are good. I like salt too. Paint chips are nummy. The book was all right to, once I put salt on it.
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