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I originally read this at university. It was probably time to revisit it, having read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer much more recently, and as I remembered, it's much less of a kid's book. Bits of it are great...but bits of it really seemed to drag in a way I don't recall them doing when I was younger.
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I read this back in sophomore English -- or maybe I just read the first half of it, because I could not at all remember much of anything after Huck and Jim "ran by Cairo." I remember struggling with this book the first time around, and at first, this go-around was not much better. My problem was that I was reading in short spurts between tending the kids. Huck's dialect is, in my unprofessional opinion, pretty authentic, and while I thought his "voice" added much to the flavor of the story, it d
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