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    <body><![CDATA[Twain, Mark. 1884. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.<br/><br/>This was my first time to voluntarily read Huckleberry Finn. (Also my first time as an adult.) I think both of those are good reasons why I enjoyed this one so much. We first met the character of Huck Finn in Mark Twain's novel, Tom S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34368917">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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 gr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29001087">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>Tom Sawyer was Twain's children’s &quot;adult&quot; book with no real social message; Huck Finn was his adult &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1723379">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, thumbs up or thumbs down? I rated this novel with a thumbs down for several reasons. My reason consist of boring, difficult, and too much.<br/><br/>Starting off, I found this book boring. I just couldn't get into it. The parts about Miss Watson always telling Huck...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43947185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite part is when Huck is explaining to Jim how there are people in the world who speak other languages, like French.  Jim says, &quot;Is a Frenchman a man? Well, then, why doesn't he talk like a man?&quot;  Huck says, &quot;You've got a point there, Jim.&quot;<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> is essential to the understanding of the American soul.  The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news.  And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel.  The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14413945">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this as a child, I really enjoyed it. But, since it had been around 20 years since I cracked the spine, I thought I would pick it up again. Upon rereading now, I've discovered:<br/><br/>This is not a book for children. Just look at the first line of the Duke's hapless attempt to recite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1929132">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[July 2007 - Had to drive from St. Louis, MO to Joplin, MO and back the next day.  I decided this would be the perfect book for a trans-Missouri trip...and it was.  Since I knew the story it was easy to keep up with and it kept me chuckling, but it has been 25 years since I read so it was new again a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1145947">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em>. More than a century after its publication it remains a major work that can be enjoyed at many levels: as an incomparable adventure story and as a classic of American humor.  <br/><br/>  Introduction by John Seelye and Notes by Guy Cardwell]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[            <u>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</u><br/><br/><br/>Have you ever had to read a book for school and there wasn’t any if, ands, or buts about it? Well let me tell you the truth I have, the book was called <u>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</u>.I really didn’t like this book, you know when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44039641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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