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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim
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Mark Twain,
Mark Twain
Free at last Free at last This ain't your grandfather's Huckleberry Finn. It's nineteenth century America and a mutant strain of tuberculosis is bringing its victims back from the dead. Sometimes they come back docile, and other times vicious. The vicious ones are sent back to Hell, but the docile ones are put to work as servants and laborers. With so many zombies on the...more
Paperback, 206 pages
Published
July 10th 2009
by Coscom Entertainment
(first published July 7th 2009)
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After teaching "Huck Finn" for over 10 years, it scares me that my students could read this version and pass most of my quizzes! Of course, that also shows that Czolgosz doesn't do much to change Twain's words or plot. His additions effectively blend with Twain's words, but some of Huck's heart is lost with frequent pick-pocking (and he's not the zombie). Where this book improves on the original is in the way it deals with the more tedious parts of the original (the King and the Duke...more
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As someone who has taught Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a dozen times, I am intrigued by this new entry into the skein of reenvisionings (not sure what else to call them) that started with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Intrigued, not appreciative.
As an experiment, it was certainly interesting. Czolgosz introduces phthisis as a disease that makes people into zombies, and led to slaves (the "n-word" is not used in this book, after 250-plus controversy-en...more
As an experiment, it was certainly interesting. Czolgosz introduces phthisis as a disease that makes people into zombies, and led to slaves (the "n-word" is not used in this book, after 250-plus controversy-en...more
Mark Twain's classic novel - with a few zombie twists. Huck Finn is off on his rafting adventure, but this time he's accompanied by one of the (un)dead: a runaway bagger, Jim. The enslavement of Africans has passed in favor of those no longer human, zombies (otherwise known as baggers) who have died from the pox and come back to (sort of) life again. Some of these baggers are vicious monsters, but others, like Jim, make ideal slaves. Too bad they still don't like to be sold down South and instea...more
I am familiar with the story of Huckleberry Finn but I was not familiar with the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim. This is why I chose to read this book and the fact that I have been recently all into everything zombies. While I did appreciate Mr. Czolgosz attempting to re-write a classic, I was expecting more. Or course, I am not saying that this book could ever become a classic like the original but I was hoping for more flesh-eating zombie action and light-heartlessness.
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I was very excited to read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim after just finishing the zombie mash ups of some of my other favorite classics. This one fell a little short for me, then again, Huck Finn wasn't one of my favorite classics. Regardless, I do love the stubborn boy and ridiculous zombies.
This one definitely isn't a home run. It is totally intriguing for me just because I love when history is changed in historical fiction. That part IS entertaining. I think th...more
This one definitely isn't a home run. It is totally intriguing for me just because I love when history is changed in historical fiction. That part IS entertaining. I think th...more
This story is a satirical take on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with a zombie twist. I love these retakes, so this one appealed to me quite a bit. The book starts off commenting on the recent updated version where a certain word was replaced with a less sensitive one. Although the word essentially is the same thing, just a different word. A disease is spreading through out the land related to tuberculosis and causes a side effect that causes people to reanimate or return from the dead....more
happened on this one in borders...a closing borders....there's a pic of him smoking a pipe on the raft, his leg in the river....the big river, and zombie jim behind....being a zombie...this on the cover. "blood enriched classics" hmmmmmm
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dontcha luv it when you type something up, hit whatever, and goodreads is no longer available.
apparently this site doesn't have that option of saving you shee-ite or something who knows.
i don't feel like typing wha...more
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz
This book is reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn with the addition of zombies.
This book read like Mark Twain. I’m not sure why it was written unless it is an attempt to get the current generation of tweens who are zombie/vampire focused to experience more classic literature.
It was an ok read but having read all of Mark Twain years ago, I didn’t find the addition of zombi...more
This book is reminiscent of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn with the addition of zombies.
This book read like Mark Twain. I’m not sure why it was written unless it is an attempt to get the current generation of tweens who are zombie/vampire focused to experience more classic literature.
It was an ok read but having read all of Mark Twain years ago, I didn’t find the addition of zombi...more
I was turned off immediately by the first paragraph of this book. It was just the completely wrong start on all accounts. Huck is telling us how he isn't going to use "that word." Well, if he means the infamous n-word that is so often debated about with Huck Finn, then that seems a cop out. Is Czolgosz trying to tell readers, "Its okay. I won't offend you racially with this book." That isn't staying true to the heart of Huck Finn, which a good redo, no matter how trashy...more
While it amused in parts, it seems to me that if you are going to satirize what is arguably the greatest American novel ever written, you ought to either throw relevancy to the wind and just make it hilarious, or embellish Twain's forbidden moral. Ultimately, it served only to circumvent the N-word censorship problem, although left on instance for what I assume to be homage.
An interesting twist on Huckleberry Finn - instead of slaves there's tame and aggressive zombies. I liked it well enough; for the most part it was hardly any different from the original novel, except the ending.
Disappointing. While other books in this genre made the zombie idea blend with the story, such as pride and prejudice, in this version it is just tacked on.
Super fun and light read. Got it as a Xmas gift. Read it everynight before bed.
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loves the main character, A headstrong boy and his hot tempered aunt
AWFUL. NO STARS.
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
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