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Nadia Shireen Siddiqi
Dec 04, 2016 rated it liked it
Initially I didn't really like it, I was a girl who had the gender specific role to be clean and eloquent at all times and all that spitfire talk in Tom Sawyer I couldn't relate to or even scramble through since there are a lot of apostrophes and speech, and dialogue that's very "Rats and Tails" boyish and abbreviated and there are made up words and real words that look made up.

The pace is good, skipping and I appreciate it, now that I'm revisiting it after reading Gone Girl, not as a stiff gir ...more
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Zuzana
Jun 06, 2012 rated it liked it
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Tom's character was an unpleasant surprise. He's kinda jerk. Too self-serving and self-absorbed to be genuinely likable. I'd take Huck over Tom anyday. ...more
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