Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

This is the reason why you don't stop writing for several years and then pick it up where you left off without reading your own book first... Huck is a brat (understandably enough, but still) who runs away, gets a reality check, becomes nice, gets a true friend, is going towards having a good life... (Years of Pause) Then meets his old friend, becomes a brat again, locks his...more

This is the reason why you don't stop writing for several years and then pick it up where you left off without reading your own book first... Huck is a brat (understandably enough, but still) who runs away, gets a reality check, becomes nice, gets a true friend, is going towards having a good life... (Years of Pause) Then meets his old friend, becomes a brat again, locks his true friend into a small hut for days and weeks, obeys the guy who oppressed him before and finally decides to escape civilisation. Fuck off, Twain.   hide

actually writing a review of this kind o' books is a way to destroy the brilliance mark twain has kept between the cover, for his readers.the background of the story is same as the adventures of tom sawyer. ,tis a story of a boy who ran away from his home and went through various types of experience.the book is good enough to make you feel like you are out there beside finn.though it demands...more

actually writing a review of this kind o' books is a way to destroy the brilliance mark twain has kept between the cover, for his readers.the background of the story is same as the adventures of tom sawyer. ,tis a story of a boy who ran away from his home and went through various types of experience.the book is good enough to make you feel like you are out there beside finn.though it demands its readers to have a basic knowledge of the post industrial revolution society of europe i think people who doesnt even have that much knowledge should now really concentrate on their history classes.   hide

Huckleberry Finn war für mich, als wäre ich mit dem kleinen auf eine Reise gegangen. Entlang des Missisipi-Rivers kann man das plätschern des wassers und das rauschen der Bäume regelrecht aus dem Buch hören. Ein faszinierendes Buch für alt und jung, das eine wunderbare freundschaft zwischen dem weißen Außenseiter und einem schwarzen Sklaven zur Zeit des Rassismus veranschaulicht. Mark...more

Huckleberry Finn war für mich, als wäre ich mit dem kleinen auf eine Reise gegangen. Entlang des Missisipi-Rivers kann man das plätschern des wassers und das rauschen der Bäume regelrecht aus dem Buch hören. Ein faszinierendes Buch für alt und jung, das eine wunderbare freundschaft zwischen dem weißen Außenseiter und einem schwarzen Sklaven zur Zeit des Rassismus veranschaulicht. Mark Twain ist sicherlich einer der besten, wenn es darum geht, den amerikanischen Traum auf dem Blatt Papier zum Leben zu erwecken.   hide

I finally got around to reading this so that when the Veggietales take-off comes out I will know how the real story goes. The N word does get distracting, but it also helps make the point of how prevalent that mindset was. There were flashes of brilliance-- poignant or funny or both-- but the escape at the end was just long and baffling. I guess the payoff that Jim was free the whole time they...more

I finally got around to reading this so that when the Veggietales take-off comes out I will know how the real story goes. The N word does get distracting, but it also helps make the point of how prevalent that mindset was. There were flashes of brilliance-- poignant or funny or both-- but the escape at the end was just long and baffling. I guess the payoff that Jim was free the whole time they were taking ridiculous pains over the elaborate rescue was worth it, but how it dragged, and I just wanted to finish the book.Now I want to see the musical Big River, which I suspect will be much more fun to watch than the book was to read. It suffered from Moby Dick disease, where the detail to paint the scene was too tedious to really ignite the imagination. For me, at least.   hide

A pretty faithful (& thus, controversial) evocation of life in mid-America during the mid 19th century. I have read it many times from childhood to now & always find that Twain transports me back to the day. There are some very difficult passages about the lilfe of African-Americans at the time & the language, while faithful to the times, is often insulting to African-Americans. Of course, as...more

A pretty faithful (& thus, controversial) evocation of life in mid-America during the mid 19th century. I have read it many times from childhood to now & always find that Twain transports me back to the day. There are some very difficult passages about the lilfe of African-Americans at the time & the language, while faithful to the times, is often insulting to African-Americans. Of course, as a historical reflection, it must continue to be read as written, but I can see why many are angered by the racial slurs. This book played an odd role in my personal life. I was raised in Paducah, Kentucky, right at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. Just off the Port of Paducah, there lies a small island. When I was a child, my father regularly told me this was the actual island where Huck and the slave, Jim, hid out when Jim ran away from his owners ("You see that island out there? That's where Huck and Jim hid."). I recall, vividly, the day in my senior year in high school when my good friend, Bruce, kindly but firmly, showed me on a map just why that could not possibly be true. While I must admit I was miffed at my father for several years about this -- you cannot imagine how many people I proudly informed over the years that this was THE island -- I have since come to see the comedy in it, and it has become one of our family's inside jokes. Recently, my wife and I were in Seattle. I pointed her to an island sitting out in Peuget Sound and said, "You see that island out there ..."   hide

Did you know there's four different southern dialects in this book, one of which is completely extinct? It never ceases to amaze me how quickly our brains pick up the dialect and suddenly we discover we're talking like an African American slave from 150 years ago in our minds.....*perfectly*. Through the eyes of an adventurous little boy, this is the most honest snap-shot you're ever going to...more

Did you know there's four different southern dialects in this book, one of which is completely extinct? It never ceases to amaze me how quickly our brains pick up the dialect and suddenly we discover we're talking like an African American slave from 150 years ago in our minds.....*perfectly*. Through the eyes of an adventurous little boy, this is the most honest snap-shot you're ever going to find, into late 19th century life in the Southern States. We've all seen the movies, we've all heard the tales, but none of them do the book justice. You have to read it.   hide

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn...more

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teenaged misfit who finds himself floating on a raft down the Mississippi River with an escaping slave, Jim. In the course of their perilous journey, Huck and Jim meet adventure, danger, and a cast of characters who are sometimes menacing and often hilarious.Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.   hide

Ok, so here we have the controversial "N" word book. For those living the controversy I say "read it". (It's much more easier and entertaining to read than "Origin of the Species".). I'm a Finn, and I consider Huck to be one. He possesses all the characters of a Finn. He is a nature boy. He is rebellious to authority, yet obedient to it. He is loyal. And...more

Ok, so here we have the controversial "N" word book. For those living the controversy I say "read it". (It's much more easier and entertaining to read than "Origin of the Species".). I'm a Finn, and I consider Huck to be one. He possesses all the characters of a Finn. He is a nature boy. He is rebellious to authority, yet obedient to it. He is loyal. And his father was a drunk lumberjack. This schizophrenic disposition leads him to a situation which, to me, absolves him totally from using the "N" word. Having considered turning his "N" in, he chooses the alternative. He'd rather go to eternal flames of hell than to turn his "N" in to the authorities. And, as for the Finns, there's this deep-rooted feeling of guilt and, subsequently, a very observant note of it: "So we poked along back home, and I wasn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow - though I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would poison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow. Tom Sawyer he says the same." By the way, whereas Huck is a Finn, Tom Sawyer, he is a Swede.   hide

I thoroughly enjoyed the classic novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Although the language used in the book makes it difficult to fully understand at times, the story within is one full of adventure and excitement. The societal views during this time period reflects through the events that occur during this novel. Slavery was accepted and expected during the time the novel was written so...more

I thoroughly enjoyed the classic novel 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Although the language used in the book makes it difficult to fully understand at times, the story within is one full of adventure and excitement. The societal views during this time period reflects through the events that occur during this novel. Slavery was accepted and expected during the time the novel was written so Twain who lived in an envrionment where slavery was common, most likely shared some of his own views and societal views and conveyed threm through the voices of the characters. I found it very engaging to see the true views of slavery during this time portrayed by Twain, rather than a modern day author, attempting to convey what they think people felt about slavery even though they did not live through this time. That, along with my admiration for Huck Finn's desire to rebel against common belief and act according to his own morals, and the great adventures, contribute to me giving it a 9.5/10.   hide