The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Ratings574
Average rating3.6
Fantastic read.
This abridged version feels complex, like Richmal Crompton's “William” stories.
This is one of those books that shows how disconnected I am from the world. There is nothing here for me, I couldn't stand over and hour of this.
Huckleberry Finn is a kid. He has friends. He plays with them. He has an abusive redneck father that explores and beats him. He rather be with him then go to school. That's all it took for me to stop reading this.
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3.5 stars. I'm pretty divided about this book. Some parts I really loved others I hated.
I disliked how some parts felt dragged out (ex. The king and duke) and the last couple chapters with Tom were painful to get through (the little sh*t). I just had to stop reading it a couple times because of it. While there are other negatives there's also a lot of positives.
I enjoyed the classic adventures and not knowing what will happen to Huck and Jim whenever they'd meet people on land. And as interesting the adventures are, this book gives Huck the choice of what being “civilized” means. His dad: being a drunk, violent and rascist or the widows way: wear uncomfortable clothes, educated and also rascist. The book is trying to convey to the reader that for all their claims to being civilized, they are the ones lacking in morals and education. And Huck thinking he'd be damned for making the choice choses his own path and saying one of my favourite lines ever.
...It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right, then, I'll go to Hell'–and tore it up.
This book had some shining moments, but, that end though.
For now it's 3.5 stars but I might change it in the future, I don't know. This book will be on my mind for a while.
I did end up enjoying it some, but I found it hard to get into, and in general I think it's just a case of ‘this story isn't for me'. Huck Finn is a little too reckless and adventurous for me to not constantly feel like he's in danger. And Tom Sawyer is just.... a bad influence? Like that boy is just too much. Wayyyyyyy too much. I couldn't deal with him.
Whenever The King and The Duke were around I was worried for Huck Finn's safety. By the time Huck Finn reaches Aunt Sally he has become more tolerable, and when Tom Sawyer shows up, Tom is clearly the worse of the two, which automatically puts Huck Finn in a better light.
I don't know, there were some parts to enjoy, but for the most part it just wasn't for me.
Bored, hard to follow. I wanted to try 100 books to read in lifetime but I think some books I'm just not interested in and this is one. Don't want to continue to force myself to read something I don't like.
I didn't despise the writing from a talent/skill perspective, but I am horrified at the use of the n-word, the constant stream of racism and misogyny and the absolute tedium of having to deal with the last 3rd of the book which once again brings the unbearable Tom Sawyer to the front and center.
“You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”
And that's the start of our introduction to one of life's most charming main characters, Huck Finn. Huck fakes his own death to escape his abusive dad, and goes through a series of wonderful adventures, meeting oodles of scary characters along the way.
Summary: Huck Finn runs away from home and meets up with Jim, who has escaped slavery and with whom Huck experiences a series of adventures. Although the book is told through the young Huck Finn’s perspective, it deals with some heavy themes, such as racism and injustice.
I loved this book, the accents and slang made everything I read come to life.
‰ЫПNotice: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.‰Ыќ
It is bizarre reading this in 2020 in the context of the protests and Black Lives Matter, but it is illuminating, at least insofar as it regards from where this all has sprung. I don't know that I can recommend the read while all this is so raw.
