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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    By Mark Twain

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    "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raft thrillingly through treacherous waters, surviving a crash with a steamboat, betrayal by rogues, and the final threat from the bourgeoisie. Informing all this is the presence of the River, described in palpable detail by Mark Twain, the former steamboat pilot, who transforms it into a richly metaphoric entity. Twain's other great innovation was the language of the book itself, which is expressive in a completely original way. "The invention of this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimension to our literature," Robert Penn Warren noted. "It is a language capable of poetry."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 1, 2003
    ISBN9780553897425
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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    • 3/5
      This tells the story of a boy, Tom Sawyer, and his best friend, Huck Finn, and some of the adventures they get into. Some of those adventures include ghosts, haunted houses and treasure. I listened to an audio version of this one, narrated by William Dufris. The narrator was very good with amazing expressions, but my mind wandered, anyway. The one mostly couldn't hold my interest. Because of that, I missed a lot, so initially, it almost felt like these were short stories, rather than a novel. A lot of the same characters did return later, and I think storylines were picked up again later, but it was hard to connect everything because I just hadn't focused enough. However, the parts of the book that I did catch, I thought were cute. And, I have to give bonus points for the narrator, so an “o.k.” 3 stars it is.
    • 4/5
      A young criminal mastermind-in-training gets into mischief with his disreputable neighborhood friends.
    • 3/5
      I read this book in my 6th grade. The story was gripping but not my favorite.
    • 4/5
      Even though this book is well over a century old it still holds up! It's funny, witty, and remarkably insightful into the head of a mischievous young boy. The games, and clothes, and manners may have changed; but kids would still be easily able to relate to the games that Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn play. From pirates to adventurers, they know how to have fun with practically nothing but their imagination. And the trouble, lord these two boys know how to get in trouble and worry their families half to death. From running away, getting lost in caves, witnessing a murder and more, Tom Sawyer is the king of trouble. A must read classic!
    • 4/5
      I think I was supposed to read this in college. But never did. There were more important things to do like... (never mind).It was time to make up for the mistakes of my youth and take in a classic. That the audiobook was narrated by Nick Offerman was a bonus that moved Tom Sawyer to the top of my to-read list.
    • 4/5
      I am adding this book as one of our family read-alouds. While often read by high school students as "classic" literature, this book proved a hit with my family audience, ages 8, 14,17 and middle aged.
      It is funny and suspenseful and the characters are vivid, all requirements for making it on our read aloud picks.
    • 4/5
      I had never read the Adventures of Tom Sawyer except in a childhood version in Golden Books or something like that. I skipped right over to read Huck Finn. While this is definitely a children's book in many ways, Twain writes in such a way that adults still enjoy Tom and his picaresque adventures, both as nostalgia for our own childhoods and because the adult voice of Twain cannot help inserting his snide commentaries on humanity.
    • 5/5
      One of the books that I thought I had read but hadn't. It rushes along, adventure after adventure, capturing what it is is to be a child growing up.
    • 4/5
      One point less for mocking Christianity
    • 2/5
      Cruciaal is de ontmoeting met Huckleberry Finn. Vinnige dialogen; Mooie impressie van jongensachtige gevoelens en leefwereld, genre Witte van Zichem (Claes is duidelijk maar een doordrukje van Twain). Toch maar matig boek.
    • 3/5
      I think Mark Twain is overrated.
    • 4/5
      My dad read this book to me as a kid and I loved it. I had the best time re-reading it as an adult - remembering parts of the dialogue I knew by heart and enjoying the social satire bits that don't always register when you're a kid. A classic!
    • 3/5
      I really doubted this book would be a thriller, or energetic to read. This book makes you want to fall asleep while reading it. I am so sorry, but this book had so many POV'S I could not keep up. MY REVIEW; This book was a serious letdown. I thought there would be more action because it tells about a boys and his friends life in this story. NO ACTION. I liked some parts like when they were trying to find treasure and couldn't find it for like 3 chapters! No. Terrible absolutely did not like the writing. There was also different related stories to read while you finish Tom Sawyer but I decided NOT to read it.
    • 4/5
      Never read this during all my school years so I thought I had to give it a shot. I was surprised. I found the book to be rather enjoyable and unlike many other "classics" that fail to live up to the hype. A great story and definitely a classic.
    • 5/5
      Why had I never read this classic before?... who knows! But i'm glad I have now read it and will move right into listening to the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
    • 5/5
      Always preferred this to Huckleberry Finn--which puts me on the wrong side of just about everybody else's opinion. If the ending in the caves doesn't get your pulse racing, you probably don't have one. Found a beautiful like-new copy of the Heritage Edition, with color plates and numerous illustrations by Norman Rockwell.
    • 3/5
      Things I liked:

      The characters voice and train of thought frequently made me smile. The way his mind came up against big moral issues like slavery and murder and things like that were provocative, making me wonder about my own rational for strongly held beliefs.

      Things I thought could be improved:

      The section at the end when Tom Sawyer was doing all manner of ridiculous rituals as part of the attempt to free Jim I thought stretched credibility of Huck or Jim going along with him. Even with the reveal at the end that Jim was really free anyway I found it tiresome after a while. While I don't mind the idea of Tom trying to add some romance to the escape, I think it definitely could be have been edited down to about a third of what it was.

      Highlight: When Jim finds Huck again after being lost on the raft. Huck plays a trick on him to convince him it was all a dream. Jim falls for it but then catches on and shames Huck for playing with his emotions. That made both the character of Jim and Huck sing for me.
    • 4/5
      Took me years to finally get around to reading this book. It was a fun and sad adventure. It told of racial pregudices that are even around today.
    • 3/5
      I'm not sure if it was the narration or the subject matter or a dated book, but eh..... Won't make my favorite list.That being said, the ending did surprise me and I liked that part.
    • 3/5
      The book I read was an older version than this, complete with nice black and white sketches. Dealt with some VERY grown up issues--drunkenness, child abuse, gambling, runaways, etc. Kind of a dark humor to the whole thing.
    • 5/5
      It has been many years since I read his book. I recently listened to the audiobook while driving to and from work the past couple of weeks.Mark Twain was one of the best writers of his time. His stories feel so real and you can get lost in the storytelling. The story of Huck Finn is no different.Huck is a young boy in Mississippi in the 1800s. Slavery is prominent; which means so is racism. Huck recently falls into a lot of money ($6000 sounds funny these days to call that a lot but it was a fortune back then). He's scare of his absentee abusive drunken father taking it away. When his dad shows up to do just that, Huck forms a plan to escape. He fakes his own death. The rest of the book tells of Huck's travels and trials. Makes you wonder how one small boy gets into so much trouble. He runs into Jim, a runaway slave that belongs to his guardian. This is where the boy must decide what is right. Society rule is to turn Jim in (Jim could get beaten or even hung for running away), but Huck's conscience says Jim is a good man who deserves to be free. I recommend everyone read this book. Look past the racist remarks and see them for what they are. A glimpse into a time that is long past and learn from the young boy, who even though he lives in a period where segregation and degradation of people are the norm, he looks into his own heart and makes a friend of someone so much different then himself.
    • 5/5
      I truly enjoyed reading HF for the second time. I first read it in high school. However, I found it more compelling and humorous as an adult reader. Painting a vivid picture of all of the quirky characters, Twain brings such an air of authenticity to his story. Huckleberry is my favorite character. When he attempted to logically make decisions, I had to laugh because I could see my son thinking in the same way. But I especially appreciated the way Twain shows the conflict in Huck’s mind over the issue of slavery. It feels authentic.
    • 3/5
      "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain was good, but not great book. I would give this book a 7 out of 10. The book was funny, sometimes full of suspense, and even find yourself getting involved in the book.This book was written in a text that I struggled with greatly Sometimes had to read outloud to understand. The text of this book is written of constant misspellings.The text gets easier as you read. The reason why it is written like this is because Mark Twain wanted to write as people spoke. Also, this is supposed to be written by Huck and Huck hasn't had a lot of schooling. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" got a 7 out of 10. The book is about a boy name Huck. He has ran away from home is rafting down the Mississippi with a ruanaway slave named Jim. On their trip down the mighty Mississippi, they have many strange encounter. The book, in my opinion, had some really boring parts. Such as the beginning because it is full of background information and is giving subtle clues to what is going to happen. Don't worry though because it gets better. Once Huck and Jim get on the river the story starts to pick up. The adventures get intense and sometimes nail-biting. This is why "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" got a 7 out of 10.
    • 5/5
      This is a wonderful American classic that deals with the issues of the antebellum south, harsh and overbearing parents, and the challenges of an active and growing boy. Huck finds adventure where ever he goes. I would recommend this as a read for all children in the 7th and 8th grade. It is timeless.
    • 3/5
      A very important American novel that covers various important issues this country has faced, many of which are still relevant today. A book that mocks racism and shows the relationship between a slave and a lower class white boy who try to escape their respective lifestyles by sailing down the Mississippi river, out of Missouri and into freedom. A fairly entertaining fictional read that everyone should take a look at eventually.
    • 4/5
      Now this was a book that I could enjoy reading! It's about time! What I love the most about Huck Finn is that it's a simple story, with nothing too over the top plot-wise. You've just got a kid who ran away from home, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a slave who's running away because he heard he was going to be sold down South. And, well, that's about it! They talk, they run into people, they experience different adventures based on the towns they pass and the people in them, and it's a learning and growing experience for our main character, Huck, which says a great deal for those of us who have experienced the single-mindedness of Tom Sawyer. *Snorts* For one thing, when Tom Sawyer appears in this book the couple of times you see him, not only are you shocked by the manner of his thinking and the utter nonsense he pulls everyone into, but it just made me mad that he was so over-the-top and made everything a MILLION times more complicated than it needed to be! Arg! Okay, so towards the end it all played out for the best, perhaps. But STILL. The kid needs to seriously be smacked upside the head for being such a jerk of things! He's a smart kid, and he knows how to take advantage of others. That's been his thing since anyone's first met the character. But it can get reaaaally frustrating to those of us that don't know that we're being put on or why we're doing things so lengthy and miserably intense when the easy solution is sitting RIGHT THERE.

      I definitely feel that there was a great deal of charm to this book however. The way that Huck and Jim act and interact is always fun and delightful, and half the time it's a wonder watching Huck learn so much from being with Jim over this long journey. You get to just sit back and enjoy everything as it unfolds. And when there are intense, life-and-safety threatening things going on, you're pulled to the very edge of your seat with anxiety for these characters that have come to mean so much to you, that's you're almost unaware of how it happened or at what point you started to really and honestly care about them. But I think that's part of the charm of Mark Twain's writing here, because that's the exact same way that Huck experiences his attachment to Jim: not knowing if he cares, or how much he cares, until all these different events come along and put him in a hard place, where he has to make some life-changing decisions--not just for himself either, but ultimately for Jim as well. It shows his character, how strong he is, even when he feels he's lost most of the time, or guilty of one thing or another that is really tied to him in no way. We've got to remember that Huck's just a kid, but he's a kid going through some majorly adult decisions a lot of the time, and a kid that's been through a lot just from the way you see him react to certain things. This is a boy that's been around and knows the world, even if he isn't an expert in it, and even if he isn't the most educated.

      I think, in part, it's this lack of any strict education or upbringing that makes Huck the wonderful character that he is: because he's got much less to influence him besides his own feelings, and his own logic, and his heart. He's a kid that uses his brain, and that makes mistakes, but he sure as the sun rises does his best to figure his way out of things--and he CAN too, what's more! He's capable, even though he's nothing special at all. And it's this great ability of his to choose what he feels is best over anything else that truly made me admire his character.

      That's why, when Tom Sawyer got involved and Huck once again became a secondary, if not background character even, I was ROYALLY steamed! This was Huck's story! It's got HIS name on the book! And Tom Sawyer just has a way of waltzing in, destroying everything that we just achieved, and stealing not only the show but the spotlight itself--permanently. From the moment Tom once again enters the picture in the latter part of the book, we lose everything that we gained throughout the story, and that's what frustrates me so IMMENSELY. And it kills me too, because Huck just goes right along with it, like it's no big deal. He sits there and goes right back to thinking all those things he's been probably told all his life: that he was born bad and will stay bad; that he's not smart, and he'll never be smart enough to out-do others; that he's nothing special, and so he's not going to try to be anything special. And it just irks me to see him like that! I feel like if he had the chance to be on his own with Jim for a time longer, that he would have grown so much more, so that maybe someday, this attitude that he's nothing at all would disappear, and he'd take claim of the fact that he is somebody strong and worthwhile!

      Who knows what's going to happen from here though. Readers, I definitely think this is a book that most people can enjoy. It's got a few things in it that I think are meant to be blatantly grating and even insulting, but that's how we learn and begin to think, and I know that's how Mark Twain intended it to be read and thought about. Take a chance on it if you haven't read it before! It's one of the better reads in the batch of Classic literature we're all told to read, I feel! And I hope you enjoy it as much as I did~!
    • 5/5
      10. [The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn] by [[Mark Twain]]1010 Category: None324 pagesI read this once about ten years ago. I remember thinking it was alright but that Twain wasn't an author I was ever really going to explore on my own. My, how the times have changed. This book was amazing. It was absolutely hilarious (I couldn't stop laughing at the end when the whole scheme was revealed to Aunt Sally) and yet it had just the right amount of the brutality and cruelty of the time showing through. The atmosphere created was perfect.This is a very character driven story. Plot-wise, it kind of mirrors life (Twain was a realist) in that it doesn't really go anywhere. Events happen and the characters develop because of it, but there's not really an "ultimate event" at the end. Well, there's sort of one but it was completely pointless in the end. I loved Huck's development from spouting off what he was taught to making his own decisions.I loved this book so much that I bought seven or eight other books by Mark Twain before I even finished this one and I cannot wait for them to get here!5 stars!
    • 5/5
      This is indeed a classic. It is an adventure that is about imperfect kids having a grand time and using their imagination. I think Children and adults alike understand Tom and Huck's struggle with life
    • 5/5
      Funny, poignant, wise, and often misunderstood, Twain's book remains a great and profound work of art. Nevertheless, it needs some explanation for modern readers who need some sense of context in order to appreciate fully the significance of Jim's role in the novel and irony implicit in his name.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Good old Huck Finn sets out on an adventure and helps runaway slave Jim along the way. We see him battle with his conscience in trying to figure out right and wrong in a world where men are valued based on the color of their skin. It's Mark Twain for heaven sake, so of course it's brilliant.Quote: "Well I tried the best I could to kinder soften if up somehow for myself, by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn't so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, "There was the Sunday school, you could a gone to it; and if you'd a done it they'd a learnt you, there..."