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Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, John D. Seelye ISBN: 0-14-039046-4 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (275 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Huck Finn
Comment: I felt that this was generaly a good novel. I really enjoyed the life of huck fin. He is a very creative charctor and very inteligent. I like how he has the ability to set up a life, not be fully satisfied with it and decide to just run away and leave every thing behind.
Not only is Huckleberry Finn an adventurous book, it also can be comical and light, though the book has a grave meaning, showing the wrongs in society at the time in the late 19th century. This book was also very good at showing you what life was like at the time. It shows how life was much simpler then.
On a negative side i did not like how the book focused so much on racism. I do not reading about it and i would say that it strongly influinces this book. It does provide some good moral value on the subject though.
Huck gets a lot done in the short period of time that the book is baised on. Huck is adopted by the well-intentioned but way too overprotective Widow Douglas(needless to say, Huck is none too pleased with the widow's attempts to turn him into an upstanding citizen). Because of this he runs away and soon after finds himself living with his abusive fauther. He enjoys this at first but eventully decides that the abuse is enough. So again he runs away and this is where he meets jim. Jim is a runaway slave and togeather as outcasts they become best friends.
I would definitly reccomend this book to any age level. Even thew it can get boring at times it is worth it to keep goign for the action. I wish i would have read The adventures of tom sawyer first i feel like it would have given me a greater understanding of this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: The classic rebel
Comment: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", as well as "Tom Sawyer" are a throw back to when life was simpler, when right and wrong were as simple as black and white, and there is no gray. When Huck and Tom are playing at the river or in the woods, reminds me of my own childhood. Also the superstitions are funny, but realistic for that kind of ignorant kids to believe in. Jim's "superstition" is more like watching birds for weathetr patterns, which is real fronieer skills back then. The story is that Huck Finn runs away from his abusive father. Along the way he helps Jim the slave escape. The two form a close friendship and that helps them get through several adventures; some funny and some some what scary. I will always love these books, but "Huckleberry Finn" is the best because it's a road trip, or rather a raft trip down the Mississippi River. This one also is more of a social commentery on the cruelty of Christian civilization, and the nobility and honor of the untamed savage.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow thats funny.
Comment: I swear i never saw the word nigger so many times in a book. And it was a real hoot to. I Couldnt help but laugh...everytime they made mention of a nigger. somthin about the ignorance of it is funny i guess On a serious note it Is a very good read, and it speaks alot about the ignorance of the times. Somthing that we need to face lest history repeat itself.
I was fascinated with the open and blatant use of racial slurrs which are never heard in our polictically correct society today. And the way the language of the early african americans is depicted like "I laid dah under the shavins all day. I uz hungry warn't afeared bekase I knowed ole missus en de widder was goin to start for de camp meetin."
I like it when these books are rewritten exactly as they are and not edited as so many historical things are so as not to "offend" anyone. A rousing and funny fictional story set in the back drop of actual historical surroundings. Its a fine read for all.
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Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, John Seelye ISBN: 0140390839 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ISBN: 0684801523 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0553210092 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 March, 1981 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Cliffs Notes) by Robert Bruce ISBN: 0764586041 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville ISBN: 0553213113 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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