Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Oxford Mark Twain)

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Summary: so very bad.
Review: I'm a 16-year old girl. I had to read this book for English class. I usually enjoy classics (my all-time favorite book is Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men), so I expected to at least be able to tolerate this book. I couldn't. I didn't get past the 12th chapter before I had to buy the Cliffs Notes (I've *never* done that before). Just thinking about the book makes me sick. Boring, rediculous, and full of cliches and stereotypes, this book made me wonder exactly WHY Mark Twain was considered a brilliant author and this one of his best books. At the time of reading this book I had a student teacher, which only made the experience worse. The ONLY thing we ever discussed in class was literary symbolism. I mean, we spent 30 minutes talking about a bowl of fruit!!!! (what did Twain mean by spending so much time describing the fruit? what does the fruit symbolize? HE MEANT TO BORE US TO DEATH AND THE FRUIT SYMBOLIZES THAT ANYONE WHO LIKED THIS BOOK MUST BE STUPID AND ARTIFICIAL!!!) You can probably guess that I did NOT like this book... at all!

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Summary: It was a Great Classic to read again and again.
Review: It caught my eye right when I began. And kept my eye on it the whole time. It's filled with adventures and creative events. You can just picture yourself with Huck in this fully detailed adventure.

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Summary: entertaining
Review: This book was a pleasure to read, once you pass the first couple of chapters. The dialogue of the character of Jim is hard, but not impossible, to understand. The adventures Huck and Jim have keep the reader on the edge of their seat and laughing the whole time! However, I do not see myself reading this book again within the next couple of years.

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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: I would have dropped this book after the first chapter if it wasn't required for my English class. The book just kept on going... the text was confusing and dull. Huck's character was just unbelievable in the extent of knowledge he had at what appeared to be a pre-teen age. I am failing to see how all American Literature stemmed from this great masterpiece.

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Summary: most memorable book
Review: This book flowed so well it painted a picture of how it would really be if you lived in this time frame!This book was one of the best I have ever read.It captures the heart and soul of America and how such a little boy could have such an exciting life!

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Summary: dull and boring and inconclusive
Review: This book seemed to continually go on. It never really came to any important lesson or moral in the entire book. The book was extremely vague, nothing really had a reason for happening it just did it was very dissappointing after hearing all the praise that had gone into it.

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Summary: Problematic yet worthwhile
Review: Well, this book is worthwhile reading, but there's no question that the depiction of Jim leaves a lot to be desired. Yeah sure, Huck's best friend is a runaway slave, but what are we to make of the fact that Jim is given virtually no voice in the novel? There's something unmistakably childlike (and I don't mean that positively) about Jim; he is hardly a fully-drawn adult character. Twain's views on race are defined in part by the time in which he wrote, but then isn't that true for all of us? The last time I discussed this book in a group, it provoked such debate the person across the room threw his copy at me. Maybe that alone is reason enough to read it.

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Summary: Greatest teen classic ever!!
Review: Reading this book makes you feel like your floating all the days by, down the Mississippi. Twain is amazing as he paints such a great picture of the time and life of Huck Finn. Even when Huck was one of the richest kids in town it didn't matter. Money wasn't an issue. Freedom was. It was everything. He hated having to have manners and having to comb his hair in the morning. His new found life bored him. So he took off on a great adventure that will leave you wishing you were on the raft with him.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I think that this is one of the best books that I have ever read in my enire life. It is a must read for people who have read and enjoyed Tom Sawer. I read it in 4th grade and have read it many times since. Read this book!

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Summary: The "Great American Novel" my arse...
Review: Well, if this was ever the biggest disappointment. I read this last year, not by choice, nearly failed the final test (as did the enire class, and I get straight As)...I may have enjoyed this more had I not been forced by demonic Junior English teachers who have no idea how to teach. I thought the novel was boring, strung-out, and relatively meaningless. The plot was muffled, tiring, and nothing but go here, flee there. The only character I enjoyed was Jim. He had the "you gotta love him"-esque sort of aura. Anyway, my two cents...

BTC

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul" said in the brief amazon.com review. That's a crock. This book was tremendously boring.