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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise...more

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Published December 3rd 2002 by Signet Classics (first published 1876)

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Feb 29, 2008 Jason Pettus rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: victorian, classic, funny

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reposted here illegally.)

The CCLaP 100: In which over a two-year period I read a hundred so-called "classics," then write essays about whether I think they deserve the label
This week: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain (1876)
Book #6 of this essay series

The story in a nutshell:
Designed specifically to be a popular exa...more

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Jan 15, 2009 Silvana rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children, classics, used-to-own

I like Huck's story better than Tom's. Probably because it is darker. Tom's story is alright, he's a very smart and creative kid and he sometimes made me laugh, especially the part when he was asked about the first two disciples during Sunday School and he answered David and Goliath, haha...

Anyway, Huck's story is better because it gives more insight on the real life and people along the Mississippi river when there's still slavery. Huck surely met with various, interesting characters during his...more

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Jan 23, 2009 Zarinahh2012 added it

Huck Finn Book Review
What do you think about the book “The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn?” Well me, I really didn’t like it that much. To me this book was confusing, races and some parts of this book was very boring. If you don’t catch the beginning of a book, it is going to be hard to follow the rest. This book was just not for me.
First, to me this book was confusing. The reason why this book was confusing because it was difficult to read. Especially because of the way that they use to talk in...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Molly S rated it 2 of 5 stars

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain shows many flawed aspects of society throughout Huck’s adventures, Huck being used as a median for which Twain portrays the livelihood of civilization. Because of the correlation Huck has with society, his character doesn’t undergo any lasting change from the beginning to the end of the book.

Huck starts out as a susceptible and immature boy. When the widow begins to explain Heaven and Hell to Huck, Huck claims that he wished he was at the “bad pl...more The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain shows many flawed aspects of society throughout Huck’s adventures, Huck being used as a median for which Twain portrays the livelihood of civilization. Because of the correlation Huck has with society, his character doesn’t undergo any lasting change from the beginning to the end of the book.

Huck starts out as a susceptible and immature boy. When the widow begins to explain Heaven and Hell to Huck, Huck claims that he wished he was at the “bad place”, not out of rebellion, but because “I wanted to go somewhere, all I wanted was a change” (2). This shows Huck’s immaturity, in the classic way of doing before thinking. Huck doesn’t understand the concept of Heaven and Hell because he can’t understand the idea of believing in something intangible. Tom Sawyer on the other hand, thrives off of the intangible. Tom forms a band of robbers with Huck, and though they do break up a Sunday school picnic, it wasn’t the “parcel of Rich A-rabs” that Huck was expecting. “I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies” (14), shows that Huck doesn’t understand Tom was pretending, because he doesn’t see that sense in believing in things that aren’t concrete. However, Huck goes along with Tom’s plans anyways.

As the book goes on, we see Huck developing his character. He starts to see Jim as a friend, and not just a runaway slave. When Huck loses Jim, he’s unsure if he should tell Miss Watson where Jim is, or if he should free Jim. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” (214) Huck says as he decides to “steal Jim out of slavery again” (214). This time when Huck says he’ll go to hell, it’s to strengthen his own personal belief, not to escape from a situation he didn’t like.

However, Tom Sawyer comes back into the picture and says he’ll help Huck free Jim. Before long, Huck is where he was at the beginning of the book, following Tom’s fanciful plans of escape, even though Huck realizes “it’s foolish, Tom” (242). Tom’s plans are so drawn out and complicated, that it seems as if he’s playing with Jim. Huck regresses to the point where he starts seeing Jim as a thing, not a friend.

Because of Huck’s young age, some think that Huck isn’t to blame for bending to Tom’s will. And he’s not; he didn’t have time to grow in his beliefs and hardened them against opposing forces. However, Huck’s age should not be used as an excuse for his character not turning out the way readers had hoped. Huck mirrors society, and Twain used Huck’s age to show the age level society possess. Overall, I think Twain’s final message was in the result of Huck’s character: Parts of society learn and grow for the better, like Huck did, only to conform back to where they started.

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Oct 08, 2012 Linda Munro rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was the most recent choice of my book club and I have to say, I have learned more about human comprehension with this book than with any other book we have read. First, I always read more than one book at a time, I read a fiction, a non-fiction, groups of short stories and the book club selection and I have no problem going from book to book, remembering what each book is about and comprehending each book I am reading as well. The largest percentage of readers from the book club cannot see...more

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Aug 30, 2011 Ebster Davis rated it 5 of 5 stars

First off, this is the first time I've listened to the unabridged version. For those of us naive enough to believe that the two American Folk heroes in this book are merely rambunctious teenagers looking for adventure, the real story will come as a complete shock.

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are budding psychopaths.

It's not like its completely their faults either. They both have a skewed sense of morality that was influenced by their upbringing and culture. Huck was abused badly and then ab...more

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Jan 15, 2009 T-bird rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics, fun, reviewed

Huck Finn Book Report

This story is about a boy named Huck Finn who runs away from home and has various adventures. It is set in the 1800's-southern United States. Aside from Huck the main characters are Jim, the king and duke, Huck’s dad, and Miss Watson. Huck has conflicts about becoming civilized. Huck has many brawls while traveling with Jim

Huck is like any child. They become civilized yet still have a yearn for adventure. He can’t stand being bottled up like the Widow wants him to be. He r...more

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Mar 16, 2008 Lmcwil rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens

I don't understand why these are only listed as one book- I distinctly remember reading Tom Sawyer, and then some years later, reading Huck Finn. Anyways, I liked them both although I recall particularly appreciating the latter. As far as I recall, Tom Sawyer was basically just a fun read, whereas Huck Finn seemed more of a social commentary, with a certain dark brooding about it. I read these both ages ago, prolly when i was about 13 or 14; I would definitely recommend.

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May 15, 2012 Sandy rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth from one of America’s most beloved authors. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn He has no mother, his father i...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Tianyi.liu rated it 4 of 5 stars

I think the book is not easy to read, some of the words made me confuse.
But this is actually a really good book, it describe the life of children, and the adventure of the children.
Tom is not always a good boy, sometimes he will do something wrong or bad, but he dare to tell the truth, Huck dares to tell the truth, too.They are two brave boys I saw in the book! When Tom and Becky in the cave, Tom was being hopeful all the time and trying to safe Becky, that is a different way to see Tom is v...more

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Oct 08, 2009 Ashley rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: young adult readers

Recommended to Ashley by: my ward book group for October

Shelves: young-adult-literature, read-in-2009, classics

So even though this edition of Tom Sawyer has both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, this time I only read Tom Sawyer. This is my first time reading Tom Sawyer since I was pretty young, and when I read it then it was a simplified version with lots of pictures. I love this story though and it took me back to when I used to read it when I was younger. Mark Twain is such an amazing writer and he does such a great job and giving his readers classic and real life characters, ones you will never forget...more

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Apr 03, 2010 Sam rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, ebook

Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are two of the most iconic American characters, and this volume contains both of their stories. The first - Tom Sawyer's - is a good, general read, but the second - Huck's - is where Mark Twain really pulls out all his stops. He tackles some of the deepest issues of his America, namely, slavery and abolition, and creates an incredible satiric novel.

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Oct 20, 2010 Adam rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

The original American novel. Great chronicle of boyhood adventures. This is a nice item with both stories in one book.

Tom & Huck get themselves into all kinds of mischief. Huck I think is a little more clever and gutsy than Tom.

Tom running off into the caves to impress his girlfriend Becky comes into Injun Joe's stash of valuable metal and supplies. The boys come to inherit $6,000 each.

But Huck is unwilling to take all the trouble from his father who happens to have returned to Huck's lif...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Mark rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the quintessential, primeval, novel of the American frontier. We should not judge Twain by the standards of our day- without him, our dialects and our idioms would be a yet but a vestige of the Colonial Empire's. And sorry all you PC's, but I happen to love the name Injun Joe. It takes on a creepy connotation you might compare with a Rastaman's dreads.So much the better for the defeated who never surrendered. Words which were acceptable then have changed the...more

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Aug 07, 2009 Dana Salman rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-and-legends, childhood-books, movies

well I read some other edition of this and it was only about Tom, but Huck is a character of course. I read a separate book called the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I read them some time ago (the latter in 4th grade, I remember that), so I forgot half the details. Still I remembered I enjoyed them both immensely, especially Huck's story. I'm not sure I finished that one though, cuz I was waiting for my mom to pick me up in the library (she was coming an hour late) and I didn't want to hang aro...more

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Jul 08, 2010 Maria rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

Com a “desculpa” das comemorações do centenário da morte de Mark Twain e um pouco envergonhada de nunca ter lido As Aventuras de Tom Saywer, uma das personagens de desenhos animados de que mais gostei na infância, surgiu a oportunidade, finalmente, de ler esta obra belíssima.
Diverti-me imenso a ler e vivenciar todas as aventuras do pequeno Tom, desde quando fugia à escola para ir nadar e pescar com o inseparável Huck, da sua paixão pela Becky, até ao seu lado bom, apesar de travesso. Deu-me vont...more

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Mar 26, 2011 John rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Tom Sawyer is a wonderful work for children, but even better for adults. Twain captures the spirit of childhood as Tom moves from one adventure to the next. The scenes in Sunday School and church are especially good in this regard, as even the smallest thing becomes distracting, or as Tom's ulterior motives drive him to surprising actions. Further, the main characters of the book are fully formed, which results in a certain weightiness to the proceedings as the danger increases. The whole notion...more Tom Sawyer is a wonderful work for children, but even better for adults. Twain captures the spirit of childhood as Tom moves from one adventure to the next. The scenes in Sunday School and church are especially good in this regard, as even the smallest thing becomes distracting, or as Tom's ulterior motives drive him to surprising actions. Further, the main characters of the book are fully formed, which results in a certain weightiness to the proceedings as the danger increases. The whole notion of the book's hero being separate from the community (in terms of his propensity to flout the rules), yet is ultimately out for the good of others, works well under Twain's more than capable pen. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the comic brilliance of many of these scenarios. There's a real love for childhood that comes through in this novel. I look forward to sharing it with my own kids when they get older.

Huck Finn is a more mature novel. It picks up the story where TS leaves off, but the shift from third person in TS to first person in HF changes the tone a great deal. Now we find ourselves in the mind of the protagonist, and while it is the mind of a child, Huck's mind is also a troubled place. The book builds its story around Huck escaping his father and taking a raft down the Mississippi, with a runaway slave--Jim--in tow. Their easygoing way with one another belies the torment that Huck feels about helping a runaway slave get away. Twain underplays this most of the way through the novel, but one senses the constant threat for Jim's safety, if not due to Huck's actions, then the actions of those around them. Twain builds to a beautifully humanistic and, dare I say, religious moment for Huck, where the boy must decide once and for all how he will handle this issue of the runaway slave. Twain gets the psychology of the dominant culture of the day, he understands how closely tied with religion it is, and he helps the reader to see certain truths clearly precisely because he chooses a boy to be his protagonist. What a great book.(less)

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Jun 12, 2009 Lydia rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: classics

Huck Finn requires some patience to read, but it is well worth the effort. It was difficult for me, tucked away in one of the most Northern corners of the country, to understand the South as it was (and is). Not that racial tension doesn't happen here, but we generally aren't reminded on a daily basis of the deep, lasting effects that slavery had.

Huck and Jim's relationship was the most difficult part of the story. They were friends, but there was definitely a sense of superiority of Huck over J...more

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Aug 24, 2009 Kim Nielsen rated it 5 of 5 stars

I can't believe I'd never done this before. Dirty, not-bathed very well, and sitting alongside a large body of water--and thus feeling a strong tie with Tom Sawyer--I read THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER and HUCKLEBERRY FINN one right after another. Strongly recommended! Years ago someone must have made you, like me, read these books but I suggest readers try again. TOM is pure fun. HUCKLEBERRY FINN is purely disturbing in its portrayal of Tom & (somewhat) Huck's disavowal of the brutality and...more

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Apr 18, 2012 Nathan "N.R." Gaddis rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Correct start date for my reading Huck Finn is some time in the Fall of 1983 about when Mr G was reading aloud to the class of us sixth-graders but being as how I suppose we all preferred the Ray Bradbury and Stephen King short stories we didn't get so very far in ole Huck's autobiography. Forward a few states and years and Mrs Rule tried to teach us Huck Finn in eighth grade. (Bless her soul, the only competent teacher in a school staffed by monkeys.) I did my damnedest to avoid reading much of...more Correct start date for my reading Huck Finn is some time in the Fall of 1983 about when Mr G was reading aloud to the class of us sixth-graders but being as how I suppose we all preferred the Ray Bradbury and Stephen King short stories we didn't get so very far in ole Huck's autobiography. Forward a few states and years and Mrs Rule tried to teach us Huck Finn in eighth grade. (Bless her soul, the only competent teacher in a school staffed by monkeys.) I did my damnedest to avoid reading much of Huck's shenanigans. Two more years and yet a different school and somehow in 10th grade I recall being asked to read Huck's story yet again and somehows fully succeeded in skipping it altogether. (I successfully didn't read Pride and Prejudice in undergrad philosophy as well.) So's what we have here is a case of severe literary avoidance of an American classic. And I recommend to you as well that if you know six significant chunks of information regarding ole Huck and Tom and Jim that you can right move onto some piece of fiction you find a bit more entertainin'.

I did feel rather short changed having never stuck through with Huck to the happy ending and had never properly paid Tom Sawyer's story any kind of a proper due. On top of which this volume from Everyman's Library is so beautifully bound in red cloth. Time to read the sucker.

Tom's story is just dull. It's kid's literature, or so one takes it. Is it better if one has a childish imagination? But of some value, Tom Sawyer gives us a rather bloated prelude and lead up and into Huck's much more interesting book.

So on to Those Adventures of the Most Admirable Huckleberry Finn and his Nigger Jim. Here's a stooped thing to say: I give it two stars; it wasn't all that great; got kind of boring. -- Thank you, Internet, for allowing me to make judgements of the kind that don't belong in the place I stick 'em. Somethings is classics. Read them -- and the rest of us don't really care if you 'like' them or 'really' like them or what you thought. Unless you think, of course. No, I didn't get off so much on ole Huck's story, but it was a literary duty I felt quite fulfilled in having carried out and fulfilled. Much more satisfied am I than that time I obligingly read Stephen King's book.

Mr Clemens did make me smile with his tip of the hat to the ole Don (Quixotes, should it be needin' spellin' out):

"...and he said there was A-rabs there, too, and elephants and things. I said, why couldn't we see them, then? He said if I warn't so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was all done by enchantment."

Suchly, as chastisement in regard to poor Huck's considerable illiteracy, especially in regard to the proper manner of piratin' and such not. Well, yes, fine, but Tom's book sickness -- book sickness which, you'll notice is itself grounded on a book about booksickness (third generation sickness? I caen't count) [we meta-fictionists can find this shit any-where] -- is on much grander display later in Huck's story in that little matter at the Phelp's farm in the matter concerning poor Jim (which I feel absolutely stupid circumlocuting as if I were concerned about wrecking someone's reading of the book by something which illiterate people call 'spoilers.' But let it rest, I'm respecting your sensitivity so don't complain if I just called you 'illiterate.' See?) So I would be innerested should you have a copy of Tom's considerable reading list. Any Clemens scholars out there?

So, no, it was gratifying to get old schooldays' memories of the book quite straightened out and see how it all comes together. Thankfully, it's really not so much about floatin' down the River but spends most of it's time among some desperately despairing americans along its shores. And, but, the Duke and King I just got tired of waiting for them to get (view spoiler). But You clicked on that, didn't you? despite lecturing me about spoilers. But until they did get (view spoiler) we had been provided with the Duke's wonderful travesty of Hamlet's famous soliloquy, (chapter the XXI) to wit:

To be, or not be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane. . .

To continue the plagiarizing:

and so there ain't much more nothing to write about, and ain't I so rotten bloody glad about that cuz were I to have know'd what a pain in the butt reviewing this book woulda been I wouldn'ta tackled it and I ain't gunna no mores.

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Oct 17, 2012 Sonja rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, annoying-books

I simply hate the way it is written. Yes, I know the southern American language shapes the characters and makes them unique, but damn it, it takes forever to read. Old medieval English is more understandable than this crap. I'll take Shakespeare any day.
The story is lazing along and, to be honest, quite boring most of the time. There are so many detours and unnecessary details that even though the book is not that long, it feels like the length of a heavy Russian drama. I can honestly say that I...more

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Nov 02, 2009 Yakeisha rated it 5 of 5 stars

Tom and Becky where in a cave and tom left becky alone in the cave but tom went down one part of the cave then i think INGENEJOE. Came and he was looking for tom and the people that where looking for tom and becky that was never heard from again left a sign up in the cave that said Tom and Becky coverd in blood. When tom went down one part of the cave tom saw the people that was trying to look for becky and tom and when tom saw the people he went back in the cave in told becky that there where p...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Brian Ridge rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction-classics

Not sure what else I can add to the mountains of praise these two books have received over the years. Clearly, they are are classics of American literature that deserve to be read in their original form by all American high school students. I think that what I liked best about these two books is the innocence and simplicity of the era. While kids today are busy with TV, movies, computer games, social media, and cell phones, Tom, Huck and their friends could entertain themselves for hours on end...more

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Feb 05, 2013 Marsha Lynn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: audiobook

If you had asked me, I would have said, "Of course, I've read Huckleberry Finn!" Besides reading Tom Sawyer as a child, I went through a Mark Twain phase when I was around 15 and read most of his major novels and short stories.

And yet ... as I got into Huckleberry Finn as an audiobook, the beginning was familiar to me but I soon realized I didn't know how the story ended. Apparently, I never made it to the end before.

Of course, the constant use of the "n" word is bothersome, but it would not be...more

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Aug 04, 2008 Michelle rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2008

Not as much fun as Huckleberry Finn, but then when I re-read Huck, Tom was the most annoying part. He's such a bone-head.

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Dec 21, 2012 Daniel Rositano rated it 3 of 5 stars

Overall, the book was an interesting read. I liked the characters, except the appearance of Tom Sawyer toward the end. He changed the dynamic of the story, and the freeing of Jim just became a game. Worse was that Huck just went along with it! For most of the book, he was becoming an independent thinker, moving away from what his southern upbringing taught him to believe. He decided he would rather go to Hell than to help his friend Jim be captured by slavers! He had such a strong will, but as s...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Dennis added it

This classic tells the story about a rebel teenager who ends up drifting on a raft with an escaped slave down the Mississippi River. The characters are usually violent but become very loveable. Some of the book is meant to be funny but, what makes it really unique is the way Huck views the world and how he expresses himself. For example, some of his dialog can be viewed as “he learned me” and other very southern jargon. This book is a timeless classic that will be read for centuries. Because of...more

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Oct 23, 2012 Gil rated it 5 of 5 stars

My goodreads friends might recognize that lately I have attempted to incorporate more fictional literature into my reading lists. I see the value in literature and hope that I can keep on incorporating fiction into my daily routine. Keeping this in mind, I decided to read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This was a great series of books.

Tom Sawyer is a super light read and a lot of fun.

Huckleberry Finn is a much better literary work than Tom Sawyer.

Some of you may know that I ha...more
My goodreads friends might recognize that lately I have attempted to incorporate more fictional literature into my reading lists. I see the value in literature and hope that I can keep on incorporating fiction into my daily routine. Keeping this in mind, I decided to read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. This was a great series of books.

Tom Sawyer is a super light read and a lot of fun.

Huckleberry Finn is a much better literary work than Tom Sawyer.

Some of you may know that I have spent a lot of time traveling and living throughout the midwestern United States, including visiting many Mark Twain-related historic sites (like his birthplace, etc.). I've been to Hannibal twice. I've been to Cairo. I've seen parts of the original manuscript of Huckleberry Finn at a museum in New York. I've spent a lot of time in Missouri since we had family there and I studied a lot of 19th century American history. I'm saying this to emphasize the following points: (1) it is a pitiful that I haven't read this book yet; (2) I had a good sense of the culture and geographic landscape that he was describing; (3) I've been to the cave the book was based on which made the cave part in Tom Sawyer come alive for me; (4) I now no longer feel like an illiterate American, which is how I constantly perceived myself in my mind (thinking "how can you comment on anything with literary value Gil, after all, you haven't even read Mark Twain").

While reading Huckleberry Finn, I checked out some goodreads reviews for the book and was surprised how often reviewers criticize it. Some reviewers don't like it because of its use of the N-word (for those squeamish about it, I suggest reading "the Hipster Huckleberry Finn," where the N-word is replaced with the word "hipster", so that as the author states, "Huckleberry Finn is neither offensive nor uncool.")

Some reviewers I looked at criticized Huck Finn because the book, in their mind, doesn't have relevance to young people who are trying to refrain from drug use, and/or inner-city kids with "real problems." Keeping that in mind, also keeping in mind that I wasn't ever assigned this book in high school or college, while reading this book I decided to consciously determine whether young people in the inner-city should be given Huck Finn as part of their curriculum. I decided that absolutely yes. There are critical elements of prejudice, race, decision-making, culture generally, stereotypes, and cultural identity that this book discusses that I believe are much more easily digested through literature rather than through a classroom setting. This book provides a perfect vehicle for discussion of critical topics and concepts that are important for people of all ages to discuss.

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Apr 24, 2011 Rachel Murphy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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What lovely books. Tom Sawyer was the easier read. Basically a collection of short stories that were on the whole fun and whimsical; tales of an idyllic childhood.

Huckleberry Finn had it's light moments (the dog with the rat at the funeral had me laughing for ages!) but was generally darker. The themes of slavery and fraud gave it more substance than the earlier book. It's also interesting to see how Huck's character develops. In the first book both boys are just out for fun and adventure. In t...more

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Mar 21, 2009 Russell Ince rated it 5 of 5 stars

I discovered Mark Twain whilst at University and it was probably Tom Sawyer that got me reading as a habit as opposed to an occasional thing to do when necessary for a piece of coursework! I've re-read Tom Sawyer a couple of times and although ostensibly a children's adventure story it resonates with adults through it's recollections of childhood.

If Tom Sawyer had been cryogenically frozen and brought into the modern age he would, no doubt, become a best friend with or greatest rival to Bart Sim...more

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BBCode	[url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24580.The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1309211915l/24580.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24580.The_Adventures_of_Tom_Sawyer_Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain[/url]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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