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Loading... The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Just one of those I think everyone should read at some point in their lives, but not merely as a fun and comical story. So much of the richness comes from understanding the (often subtle) satirical background reflective of Twain's genius. (  ) mjayne | Oct 20, 2007 |  In order to save time, we read this book in my Honors American Lit class, but skipped nearly half of it throughout the book. I'm sure my teacher ended up butchering the story for us, but I dont really mind, since I thought it was just an ok story. The the class conversations we had about it were better than actually reading it. (  ) ThatsFresh | Sep 25, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Though some of the situations in Huckleberry Finn are funny in themselves (the cockeyed Shakespeare production in Chapter 21 leaps instantly to mind), this book's humor is found mostly in Huck's unique worldview and his way of expressing himself. Describing his brief sojourn with the Widow Douglas after she adopts him, Huck says: "After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people." Underlying Twain's good humor is a dark subcurrent of Antebellum cruelty and injustice that makes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a frequently funny book with a serious message.
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