A bold story written in dialectic language, the book follows a first-person narrative of fabolous and sincere adventures lived by a boy. Its setting set in the hostile 19th century America makes it a major classic worth reading. ( )

3.5 stars ( )

Fantastic somewhat comical adventures of boy who goes off with an escaped slave on a raft. Pokes fun at mankind. This was my second reading of it. ( )

Yeah, I wasn't terribly impressed by this book. It started out good enough, but by the middle it was just like pulling teeth. All that stuff with the Duke and the King and all that stupid stuff just bored me tears. It was all I could do to read ten pages a night. And then I absolutely hated the end of it, it just seemed so stupid, and entirely heartless to make such a game of helping a man escape from slavery. I didn't find it funny at all...rather I found it pretty disgusting.

And even though I knew that the language was accurate according to the dialect of the time, I'm a 21st century girl, and couldn't help but feel disgusted and actually offended by the attitudes and language. It's just constant, and Twain entirely embraces just about every negative stereotype possible to use in this book. I can completely understand why this book has been banned, even if the greater themes of it are not racist at all. I think it's just one of those books that it's hard to see past what's on the surface, especially by those of us raised to the greater sensitivity of the 21st century. ( )

Para se livrar do pai bêbado e violento, Huckleberry Finn se refugia em uma pequena ilha do rio Mississippi, onde se alia com Jim, um escravo fugido. Em busca de liberdade, a inusitada dupla se lança numa viagem pelo leito do rio, às margens da sociedade pré-Guerra Civil.

Marco fundador da narrativa estado-unidense, o romance registrou a fala comum da gente simples e inaugurou a tradição – central das artes americanas – do anti-herói jovem e espirituoso que, graças à condição de desajustado, goza de uma visão privilegiada do mundo. Muitas vezes alvo de polêmicas, Huck Finn não cessa de suscitar reflexões sobre o absurdo da humanidade.