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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

Start date: November 1, 2020

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Feb 02, 2008 Chrissie rated it liked it

Shelves: usa, audible-us, fiction, classics, 2017-read, kids

I chose to reread The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because I like the author's prose and humor. Having recently reread The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, I thought why not reread this too. I found that I prefer Tom Sawyer over this. Huck's story reads more strongly as a plot-oriented, exciting adventure story, even if both are classified as such. Reading this now as an adult, I am not as captivated as I was as a child by adventure stories.

There is also a difference in the humor of the two stories. ...more

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Feb 13, 2008 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, children-ya, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, banned-books

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, the narrator of two other ...more

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Sep 16, 2008 Pamela(AllHoney) rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, books-to-movies, american-historical, children-fiction-young-adult

There is a reason this is a classic. It's because it's good. It is a bit odd at times trying to intrepret the dialogue but a fun read all the same. Huckleberry Finn is told in first person from the view of the title character. He was introduced in another of Mark Twain's great classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. ...more

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Mar 21, 2008 Becca rated it really liked it

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Even though I'm a sucker for unreliable characters, I didn't love this as much as I thought I might. I'm a fan of Twain so I did like it, but not as much as I thought.

It was hard to read the racial slurs. Twain certainly embodied that aspect of the era in this book.

Twain's colloquialisms and dialect are amazing and spot-on. I doubt there will be another like him. ...more

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