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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Simple English)
I thought The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a decent book. I feel that most people who read this book will enjoy and have a great time. This book contains many twists and turns that left me begging for more. Huckleberry Finn is a great character for all young boys to relate too. He is full of adventure and loves to cause trouble.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was overall a very fun and exciting book. The drama was always high and had my blood pulsing. From having an abusive and alcoholic father, to running away from his hometown, and then being captured by the duke and the dauphin, it did not seem like Huck ever got a break nor did he want one. The plot was great because it was always changing from one dramatic experience to the next. Huck never stayed in one place and was always ditching his father or Miss Watson (the widow taking care of him). While both of them care about Huck in a completely different way, he really didn't want to have anything to do with them. Most of the characters were great in the book. Each one had an important part that lead to the next catastrophe. At the end all of the characters seemed to come together and it was interesting how basically everyone met each other. Jim, a slave child, was a very important character. He became a true friend and accomplice throughout the entire book. While most of the characters played an important part, some pieces just didn't fit however and lead to boredom.Although this book was basically very good, I got confused during certain parts. The whole deal with the duke and the dauphin was stupid in my opinion. I feel that they just made the book more puzzling. They were from one town to the next tricking people and using fake names, eventually it got old. Around this time the book started to drag on and the development didn't really go anywhere; it stayed pretty dull. Also the whole deal with Huck's abusive father really didn't have a huge affect in the long run. Huck still ended up with Miss Watson and besides the beginning Huck didn't have to deal with his father.Overall I was very pleased with this book. I am the kind of kid who loves drama and adventure. Even though parts were slow and boring, they picked up. The action is intense and the humor goes very well with it. No matter what type of situation, Huck always seems to make it enjoyable. I would suggest this book to anyone who enjoys a fun book about mischief and who enjoys good laugh.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Simple English)
I tried to read this book in high school without much success. The episodic plot and many dialects were too much for me to handle. Now, nearly 10 years later, I find this book an absolute masterpiece.Twain paints 19th century american ideals, themes, and perspectives through the experiences of perhaps the most memorable character in American literature. I found Huck truly innocent and clever, and his episodes with Tom Sawyer in their elaborate rescue attempts were some of the funniest and most touching I have ever read.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Simple English)
Powerful, refreshing, beautifully written and incrediably clever this is a timeless masterwork with well drawn characters. This unforgettable romp makes a superior read aloud.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Simple English)
This book is bigger than the Mississippi, bigger than school boards that would ban it, bigger than contemporary critics who would snuff it. Read it and wonder at the loneliness of Huck Finn, the cultures and traditions that embrace ignorance and racism, the hopefulness of Jim in a society that values only him as a slave. You Charles Dickens fans will hear echoes of Great Expectations.But above all else, read it as a Story. It's one of the Best.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Simple English)
I'm writing this review because I loved this Audio book that I bought on Audible and I was scrolling through it on this amazon page and it was rated lower than what I believe it deserves. The main reason is because two of the other reviews quite frankly sucked. One guy even said that the book was confusing because of the grammar errors. haha wow, he must not understand the context and style that Mark Twain intentionally wrote in. durrr!but ya this is a fantastic book and Elijah Wood does an amazing job as the narrator. One of the reasons he does such a good job is because Wood actually played the role of Huck Finn before in the 1993 Disney movie so he had a lot of experience with portraying the character. but ya really good audio book for Twain's classic novel. that is all.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Simple English)
If there's any book out there that needs no introduction (or review, to be honest), it's Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Yet here I am reviewing it, anyway. I must admit (not without a fair share of embarrassment) that I just now got around to reading this American classic for the first time. I never had to read it in school, and to some degree I felt pretty familiar with the novel even without having read it - that's just how popular and important Huckleberry Finn is to the social fabric of America.Nowadays, with all the politically correct liberals having escaped their Berkeley zoo and run amuck all over the nation, many of our young people are told not to read this novel. In fact, legions of voices cry out for poor little Huck Finn, that beloved rascal of literature, to be banned from schools and libraries - for the crime of using the n-word, a word commonly used by both blacks and whites up and down the Mississippi during Huck's time (not to mention numerous hip-hop artists of today). Turning a blind eye to the fact that Twain made the slave Jim a noble, human, easy-going fellow with his heart always in the right place (unlike Huck's other companions), the literary fascists contend that this novel is poison to the minds of youngsters. One can only imagine the reaction Mark Twain would have to the hysteria his book incites in liberals today (although he would certainly not be surprised, as he had to fight censorship of this book from the date of its publication).One of the great ironies of the "Ban Huck Finn" brouhaha is the fact that young people will surely find this novel much more entertaining than the vast majority of other literary classics they are asked to read. This is a very funny book, especially once "the duke and the dauphin" arrive on the scene and, later, when Tom Sawyer meticulously plans out Jim's rescue from captivity (no thanks to the captors, who didn't even try to make it as difficult as Tom says it should be). Young readers will also relate to and understand this book, a fact which should give rise to spirited discussion of it in class. Don't we want our kids to be excited about books and reading?The more outrageous the hissy fits thrown by liberal critics over the "dangers" of Huck Finn, the more important it is for everyone, young and old alike, to go out and read Twain's novel. Whenever someone tells you not to read something, it's important that you go out there and read it - and discover whatever it is the book banning loonies don't want you to know. Prove to them that you are intelligent enough to know the difference between the social values of the past and present, fiction and reality, right and wrong, etc. Think for yourself. Read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.