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03/03/08

Read in March, 2008

So - this review is just a whole bunch of my thoughts about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The first two paragraphs are somewhat cohesive, and the third paragraph sort-of means what I want it to,and there are definitley parts of it that could have been explained better, but from there...its just a mess of my thoughts. So anyway,I'm just warning you.

I had to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for school, and i really hated reading it. In fact, I didn't even read some of it - I look...more So - this review is just a whole bunch of my thoughts about The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The first two paragraphs are somewhat cohesive, and the third paragraph sort-of means what I want it to,and there are definitley parts of it that could have been explained better, but from there...its just a mess of my thoughts. So anyway,I'm just warning you.

I had to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for school, and i really hated reading it. In fact, I didn't even read some of it - I looked up what happened on the internet. I just couldn't read any more of it....it was so bad. The story was so ...long. And boring. I was really perplexed as to why it is referred to as "The Great American Novel".

But, thats not the point. Even though i hated reading it, I ended up loving the book, if that makes any sense...? Anyway, the book had so many important themes, but one that stuck out to me was religion. I found that everything in this book could be tied to every aspect of every different religion. For example, the characters represented different types of religions, and the land and the river represented heaven and hell because everything good happened on the river and everything bad happened on land. But then again, this is still not my point.

Looking at Mark Twain's(the author) life, I found that he saw Christianity differently from most Christians. He saw that we're judgmental and hypocritical, even though we see God with a "Big Stick". Mark Twain saw how we talk about and judge coworkers behind their backs, yet we say we're not judgmental.He saw how we see God with a "Big Stick". What I mean is, how we see God having a "Big Stick" about sinning, and how much he hates sin. Now, don't get me wrong - God does discipline us for our sins,and he does hate sin, but what I mean is....we see God too rigidly, and we forget how much he loves us. When I think about how much God loves us, I think about the song "Praise You in this Storm" by Casting Crowns. There is a line in that song that says "And every tear I cry, You hold in you hand". I think that line is a perfect example of God because he does give us trials and tests (hence, the tear) but he holds those hardships in his hand.

I realized that meaning of Huckleberry Finn is about all of that. I think what Mark Twain was trying to get across was that we all need to take another look at how we live our lives while claiming to be Christians, and how we see Christianity.

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Because of the always visible theme of religion in Huckleberry Finn, it made me start to think about how I see Christians. I saw what Mark Twain saw.I kept seeing Christians talking about fellow coworkers behind their backs, and speculating about them and being so judgmental. They would even make small remarks like "I know I shouldn't be talking about her", and it's like it went right over their heads, because they didn't stop.

I think that as Christians, we don't notice that kind of stuff as much as non-Christians do, and I think that is what turns them away from Christianity. They see how much we Christians think of ourselves, and then they see how hypocritical we can be. Imagine if a non-Christian overheard the scenario above? What would they think?

Anyway, I found out why this book is called "The Great American Novel".
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08/01/08

Read in December, 2007

I've never read much of Mark Twain's stuff. I vaguely remember reading A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in college and I think I was probably SUPPOSED to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at some point in school, but this was the first time I had ever picked up what's supposed to be his greatest work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I wish I had done so sooner, because it was great.

If you're somehow unfamiliar with the basic premise, Huckleberry Finn follows the adventures of the e...more I've never read much of Mark Twain's stuff. I vaguely remember reading A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court in college and I think I was probably SUPPOSED to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at some point in school, but this was the first time I had ever picked up what's supposed to be his greatest work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I wish I had done so sooner, because it was great.

If you're somehow unfamiliar with the basic premise, Huckleberry Finn follows the adventures of the eponymous country boy from Missouri as he encounters trouble at home and then decides to run away via the mighty Mississippi River. Along the way he pairs up with an escaped slave named Jim and encounters all kinds of murderers, thieves, aristocrats, and swindlers. The plot summary sounds kind of like a pulp adventure story, and I admit there is a lot of that. I can see why kids --especially boys-- would be attracted to this book.

But the mark of a really good book is that it has so much literary machinery whirring and grinding below the surface that you're constantly thinking back on it, days or weeks or months after you've finished reading it. The most striking thing to me after the authentic representation of dialects was what a master of irony Twain was. It's everywhere in this book: from Tom Sawyer telling Huck that he had to let his foster parents civilize him before he could join Tom's (imaginary) band of cutthroat robbers, to Huck's saying that he's sorely disappointed in the quality of Tom's morals after the other boy agrees to help Huck free the captured runaway slave Jim. It's the same kind of juxtaposition and stinging irony that modern writers of shows like The Daily Show employ. The book is rarely laugh out loud funny, but I sure grinned a lot.

I also really love the character of Huck Finn, and I can see why he's so timeless. Huck is undoubtedly a thirteen year old country boy --he's uncouth, he's uneducated, and he's lazy. But he's also really intelligent, kind, clever, independent, and has no problem following his own moral compass even when it leads him against the grain of society and those supposedly better than him. Well, eventually. Like any thirteen year old boy he gets swept up among the actions of his elders, but he rarely hesitates for long before correcting his own course.

I also loved how Twain contrasted the characters of Huck and Tom Sawyer. Both are young boys who are smart and clever, but beyond that Tom is everything Huck is not. Tom needlessly complicates everything while Huck is much more pragmatic and direct. Tom adheres zealously to the rules governing any situation --gleaned in his case from adventure stories about pirates, robbers, and prison escapees-- while Huck is willing to question authority and come around to his own decisions about what's right. Tom lets his adherence to the rules and his desire to do things "right" lead him into inadvertent cruelty, while Huck will actually endanger himself and break the rules in order to help other people directly. It's great stuff.

So, you probably don't need me to tell you that this is an example of some of the best American literature to date given its status and how ingrained it has become in our culture. But don't let that dissuade you from checking it out....less

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06/04/08

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Read in June, 2008

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First of all, because I was re-reading this book, I read the Easton Press forward that explained a lot about Huck Finn, the times, and a lot about Mark Twain himself. It was really interesting and put the book in an interesting context before reading. There was even information on the illustrator of the book, which I had never really considered such an art before, but truly, the illustrator studied the book and the times and studied the original illustrations of the book. It was all very inte...more First of all, because I was re-reading this book, I read the Easton Press forward that explained a lot about Huck Finn, the times, and a lot about Mark Twain himself. It was really interesting and put the book in an interesting context before reading. There was even information on the illustrator of the book, which I had never really considered such an art before, but truly, the illustrator studied the book and the times and studied the original illustrations of the book. It was all very interesting.

Now, the book itself was a great book. I only gave it 4 stars for the fact that it is a difficult read because of the dialect. I found it easier to read this book if I read for an hour or two, the 'mars Tom (Master Tom) and all the local humor was easier to understand if I'd gotten into it, but just picking up the book for 10 minutes at a time was rather difficult.

One of the interesting things about reading this book was that now I'm a mother and I was worried sick about Huck out on the river, with everyone thinking he was dead. He got into trouble everywhere he went and no one really cared. Sure, it was better than being with his AWFUL, beater father but still I just wanted to take him home and take care of him, which makes it easy to understand why everywhere Huck went people were always taking him in and trying to make him part of their family.

My favorite thing about this book was Jim. Although Huck teased him a lot, he was truly Huck's best friend and Huck truly put himself out there to help rescue Jim. It was a great friendship, in the times long before being black and white friends was acceptable. The crazy thing is that Jim was young, not much older than Huck, but he had a wife and a family. Crazy!

I did not like the section with the Duke and the King. Although, Huck did his best to undermind the swindlers, I just didn't like them out swindling people out of money, especially when they pretending to inherit the estate and steal those ladies money. That was just plain wrong. Good thing Huck and Jim were there!

I'm glad that I re-read this book. I think I'm going to have to read Tom Sawyer now. Tom cracks me up, his imaginative mind makes me think of my darling niece and I can just see her dreaming up exciting adventures, heaven help her mother when she is a pre-teen! My favorite part is when Tom and Huck give Jim snakes, spiders, and a grindstone as companions to him while he's in captivity....less

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Annie rated it:

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10/24/07

recommends it for: folks into race relations, scathing social comentary, or a well told story about unlikely friends

Both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn give me pleasant memories of my grandma. She took me to Hannibal, Misouri to see the touristy stuff there from Mark Twain's childhood that inspired the book. The cave was most exciting, I love caves and bats. That was my first cave.
I also fondly remember my dad playing the old fence painting trick on me as a kid. There is a really cute picture somewhere of me, about 5 yrs old, in "Hee-Haw" (from the TV show of same name) overalls joyfully painting the...more Both Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn give me pleasant memories of my grandma. She took me to Hannibal, Misouri to see the touristy stuff there from Mark Twain's childhood that inspired the book. The cave was most exciting, I love caves and bats. That was my first cave.
I also fondly remember my dad playing the old fence painting trick on me as a kid. There is a really cute picture somewhere of me, about 5 yrs old, in "Hee-Haw" (from the TV show of same name) overalls joyfully painting the fence.
Huck Finn is the sadder, deeper, more biting social comentary of the 2 books, as I remember. More developed characters. Tom Sawyer is lighter reading, from what I remember, like short stories, vignettes, little surface images of many more characters instead of emotional focus on 2. But maybe that's just because of the different ages I was when I read them. I recomend Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriett Beacher Stowe if you like this type of thing, if you can take it---the worst human evil, slavery, and social injustice in general.
Some find this stuff technically hard to read because its written with alot of colloquial speech that you can't look up in a dictionary, and that you may never have heard anyone speak anything like. But like Chaucer and Shakespeare, you have to just relax and pretend you're watching a movie, let it wash over you and through you, don't get caught up on one word or phrase you don't understand. I found it really easy reading, and insistent pageturning, as long as I had a good block of time to sit with it. you can't pick it up a page at a time on the toilet.
I think all of us find it difficult emotionally to decide to read it. No one wants to acknowledge slavery or think about it. But we must, to fight and prevent all present and future forms of it. These authors, with their artfull use of page turning adventure storytelling, make growing concious alot easier and painless than reading dry nonfiction history books or watching heavy documentaries. Well, painless I take back. Their artfull character developement, make us care deeply, loving like our own family the people suffering in these stories, make us outrage viscerally, painfully more effectively than by watching objectively through the lens of nonfiction documentary. Do it! You'll be glad you did. Growing concious, ("self cultivation" as the buddhists put it) is fun somewhow in a weird way. Ignorance isn't really bliss afterall.
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01/25/08

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Read in January, 2008

Now, I'm not normally a fan of dialect, but I tell you, Mark Twain has given a fine example of the right way to do it. He is consistent in the spellings of the different words he uses and shows different ways of speaking for each of the characters. That is, they don't all sound alike. So it feels authentic. I really like that aspect. The language that Twain uses for Huck Finn's voice is absolutely delicious. It's so rich and wonderful you can cut it with a knife. He keeps up the quality of his m...more Now, I'm not normally a fan of dialect, but I tell you, Mark Twain has given a fine example of the right way to do it. He is consistent in the spellings of the different words he uses and shows different ways of speaking for each of the characters. That is, they don't all sound alike. So it feels authentic. I really like that aspect. The language that Twain uses for Huck Finn's voice is absolutely delicious. It's so rich and wonderful you can cut it with a knife. He keeps up the quality of his main character's voice throughout the entire novel, staying consistent and making the story so much more sweet than it would be otherwise.

One thing I noticed is that though Huck's grammar leaves something to be desired, he actually has quite a good vocabulary. I wonder how that worked out? I suppose it had something to do with the fact that he lived a lot of his life "uneducated" then went to school once he was living with the widow. He used a word like "frivolous"--which you wouldn't think a kid who uses "weren't" instead of "wasn't" would know.

I wish I'd read through Huck Finn with a highlighter in hand, because there are so many amazing passages that are supremely wise and/or are worded in such a way as to express some simple, great truth or lesson through Huck's incredible narration. One of the bits that stands out in my mind is this one. Huck is having dinner with a big group, and the women who cooked are talking about the food:

Mary Jane she set at the head of the table, with Susan alongside her, and said how bad the biscuits was, and how mean the preserves was, and how ornery and tough the fried chicken was--and all that kind of rot, the way women always do for to force out compliments; and all the people all knowed everything was tiptop, and said so--said, "How DO you get biscuits so brown and nice?" and "Where, for land's sake, did you get these amaz'n pickles?" and all that kind of humbug talky-talk, just the way people always does at a supper, you know.

Just writing that out makes me hunger for more. This is definitely one to re-read in the future, if only just to savor the taste of it once again.
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05/20/08

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River provide the backdrop for the entire book.

Huck is kidnapped by Pap, his drunken father. Pap kidnaps Huck because he wants Huck's $6000. Huck was awarded $6000 from the treasure he and Tom Sawyer found in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck finally escapes from the deserted house in the woods and finds a canoe to shove off down the river. Instead o...more The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River provide the backdrop for the entire book.

Huck is kidnapped by Pap, his drunken father. Pap kidnaps Huck because he wants Huck's $6000. Huck was awarded $6000 from the treasure he and Tom Sawyer found in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck finally escapes from the deserted house in the woods and finds a canoe to shove off down the river. Instead of going back to the widow's house, he decides to run away. He is sick of all of the confinement and civilization that the window enforces upon him. He comes across Jim, Miss Watson's slave, and together, they spend nights and days journeying down the river, both in search of freedom.

While traveling on a raft down the river, Huck and Jim have many adventures and during many long talks, become best of friends. They find a house with a dead man. They end up stealing many things from the house. They find a wrecked ship, and go on it, only to be mixed up with murderers. They get away with money and some other goods. They get separated from each other in the heavy fog, but eventually find each other. A steamboat crashes into their raft and Jim and Huck are separated again. Huck has a run-in with the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons, two families at war with each other. He is reunited with Jim shortly after this. Then, they meet the King and the Duke, and get into a good deal of trouble performing plays. The King and the Duke pretend to be Peter Wilks' long lost brothers from England and try to steal all of the money left behind in his will. They escape before they are caught. Huck finally gets rid of them, but is left to search for Jim, who gets sold by the King. He ends up at Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally's house, where Tom and Huck rescue Jim.

Through all of the adventures down the river, Huck learns a variety of life lessons and improves as a person. He develops a conscience and truly feels for humanity. The complexity of his character is enhanced by his ability to relate so easily with nature and the river....less

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SCIENCEFICTION SQRL rated it:

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07/07/08

bookshelves: 100-books-2008, separates

Read in February, 2008

Huckleberry Finn reads better than Tom Sawyer--perhaps reflecting Twain's growing maturity as a writer. It's an excellent yarn of Huck's travels along the Mississippi and his fallings-in with escaped slave Jim, a couple of hucksters known as "the king" and "the duke", and, finally, with Tom Sawyer his own self. The mood of the book changes when Tom comes along, and I think it helps here to have read Tom Sawyer first. Up until he appears, passing himself off as his brother ...more Huckleberry Finn reads better than Tom Sawyer--perhaps reflecting Twain's growing maturity as a writer. It's an excellent yarn of Huck's travels along the Mississippi and his fallings-in with escaped slave Jim, a couple of hucksters known as "the king" and "the duke", and, finally, with Tom Sawyer his own self. The mood of the book changes when Tom comes along, and I think it helps here to have read Tom Sawyer first. Up until he appears, passing himself off as his brother Sid because Huck has already been taken for him, the book has been somewhat solemn and Huck's actions have been thought-out and reasonable. Not that there haven't been funny interludes, but when Tom appears it's almost all fun from then on. Were the reader not familiar with the didactic, over-imaginative Tom, this switch might not work, but when you know what Tom's like, it makes perfect sense. Well, almost.

The lengths to which Tom makes Huck and Jim go while they're trying to rescue him from a hut in which he's imprisoned, waiting to be returned to his owner or sold, have to be read to be believed. They're hilarious. I was laughing so much I could hardly focus on the page. Truly, a masterpiece.

What I also found interesting is how Twain doesn't compromise on Huck's mindset. He feels there's something low and shameful about helping Jim escape--stealing someone's property--and yet he can't bring himself to give the man up. His attempts to reconcile what he sees as low-down behaviour with his impulsive response to Jim's gratitude are funny and saddening at once. The book then has Tom lowered in his estimation when he pitches in to help Jim with no apparent twinges to his conscience at all. But eventually the book reveals what Tom knows but Huck doesn't--Jim has been free all along. It was all one huge jape for Tom. Huck is revealed as the more serious, deep-thinking character, and his conscience is probably relieved of the guilt of nigger-stealing.

A more complex book than Tom Sawyer, and one that would certainly bear re-reading. It's unflinching in its examination of the attitudes of the day, and the insights into superstition are fascinating....less

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06/07/07

Read in January, 2006

How does one go until age 28 before reading this? I have no idea--but I was delighted WAY beyond expectation and learned so much when I read this and taught it to my students.

Tom Sawyer was Twain's children’s "adult" book with no real social message; Huck Finn was his adult "children's" book, therefore--I enjoyed it much more than Tom Sawyer. Rich with social awareness, it was fascinating (especially, and it's a must) to read the Norton Critical Edition of the book whic...more How does one go until age 28 before reading this? I have no idea--but I was delighted WAY beyond expectation and learned so much when I read this and taught it to my students.

Tom Sawyer was Twain's children’s "adult" book with no real social message; Huck Finn was his adult "children's" book, therefore--I enjoyed it much more than Tom Sawyer. Rich with social awareness, it was fascinating (especially, and it's a must) to read the Norton Critical Edition of the book which highlighted how Twain lost his train of thought for years and years. It also highlights some deleted chapters from the original manuscript--which poses for a very thought-provoking discussion.

It's easier if you read it from wikipedia--but it's all the stuff I learned and love!!

“Twain initially conceived of the work as a companion to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer that would follow Huck Finn through adulthood. Beginning with a chapter he had deleted from the earlier novel, Twain began work on a manuscript he originally titled Huckleberry Finn's Autobiography. Twain worked on the manuscript off and on for the next several years, ultimately abandoning his original plan of following Huck's development into adulthood. He appeared to have lost interest in the manuscript while it was in progress, and set it aside for several years. After making a trip down the Mississippi, Twain returned to his work on the novel. Upon completion, the novel's title closely paralleled its predecessor's: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)" [1]”

It is commonly said that the beginning and ending of the book, the parts in which Tom Sawyer appears as a character, detract from its overall impact. Others feel Tom serves to start the story off and to bring it to a conclusion, and that Tom's ridiculous schemes have the paradoxical effect of providing a framework of 'reality' around the mythical river voyage. Much of the boyhood innocence and romantic depictions of nature occur in the first sixteen chapters and the last five, while the middle of the story shows the harsh realities of antebellum society.”

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02/02/08

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Read in January, 2005

Hadn’t read this wonderful book in a couple of decades, though I used to read it every few years. The book begs to be read aloud. The dialect sings with natural beauty. The descriptions of the Mississippi, small town life and the rural landscape are poetry. The humor is stand-up comic funny and so skillful you admire the jokes with the same wonder you admire the descriptions of storms on the river, which is as if you were witnessing them, rather than reading about them. And there isn’t a bet...more

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01/17/08

Read in December, 2007

I've always heard people talking about huckleberry finn but never knew what it was. One day I was in the library with nothing to read and saw it on the selves so I took it and read it.

At first I wasn't too hard to understand and I got most of what it was saying but then language and meaning started to become complicated. Especially when a slave spoke it was hard to comprehend what he was trying to say. I also noticed the similarities between the way the slaves spoke and the way slang is tod...more

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03/13/08

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Read in February, 2000

For a book that's supposedly the source of "all modern American literature," there's a lot you can pick on. Like the careening plot, or the last ten chapters of the book (which is kind of like eating Sour Patch Kids after a chocolate souffle). I can just see Mark Twain paging anxiously through the first thirty-one chapters and muttering, "I can't take any more of this literary merit--if I don't bring in Tom Sawyer to screw things up, I'm going to have a freaking aneurysm." ...more

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06/16/07

Read in June, 2007

recommends it for: anyone who recognizes the word "Missouri"

Interestingly enough, John Seeyle, who wrote the introduction to this edition, says, The Adventrues of Huckleberry Finn is one of those books everyone knows, even if everyone has not read it." And I realized this is so true. This is one of those books that when I picked it up, I was not sure if I had read it. (Sometimes I do forget that I have read books.) While reading it, I parts of it were definitely familiar; I had either read excerpts of the book at some point, or I had started it ...more

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01/26/08

bookshelves: classic-lit, historical

Read in January, 2008

My interest in Huck Finn isn't so much about the story (which is fairly plodding and uninteresting) as it is about the characters and the discussions their adventures encourage. Huck's moral dilemma (is helping a slave escape a good thing or a bad thing?) is fabulously interesting, though it doesn't get nearly the page time it deserves. The darkness of Huck's and Jim's lives is off-set by their growing fondness for each other as well as their recognition that "civilization" isn't so c...more

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Lauren rated it:

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05/25/08

This was an interesting novel to read because of the unique relationship between Huck and Jim, and the growth of Huck as an individual. Huck’s friendship with Jim was not a socially acceptable one, but as Huck matures throughout the novel, he realizes that what society has taught him is not necessarily right, and that being “sivilized” is not necessarily the best way for him to live his life. Huck becomes friends with Jim, who also acts as a fatherly figure, being a more positive example t...more

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08/01/08

Read in July, 2008

This is another old favorite. I don't know how many times I've read this book, how many times I've played -- on our old Apple IIe -- my mother's "Huck Finn" game (she taught high school English for many years), how many times my whole family listened to the audio version on long car trips, and how many times I've listened to the soundtrack to "Big River" (I do know how many times I've seen the play: once). This means that lines and phrases leap off the page at me, and I hea...more

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08/07/08

bookshelves: classics

recommends it for: people who understand "true" literature

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11/22/07

Read in October, 1999

recommends it for: those inclined to 'light out for the territory'

"I about made up my mind to pray; and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of boy I was, and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from me, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart wasn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all....more

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08/05/07

An epic of American literature, for sure, but the reactions it pulls are stunning. Family, race, self-realization, nature, freedom, etc.; everything that is held as ideally American seems to show up in some way or another. It's so rich and devestating that you will react to it, which is reason enough to read anything.

There's no guarantee of who likes or dislikes this book, but reactions of some thoughtful kind are certain. For instance, I've recommended 1984 with little response, because the...more

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06/05/08

Read in April, 2002

recommends it for: Everyone

After seeing another PBS airing analyzing the ins and outs of Twain's masterpiece, particularly questioning its most dramatic and controversial ending, I had to pick it up again. That was some six years ago, and it led to some great debates and discussions with fellow teachers.

More recently, I was in a professor's office where he loaned me, "Was Huck Finn Black?" by Shelley Fisher Fishkin (try saying that name seven times really fast while spinning with your eyes closed). This 199...more

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