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Book review: “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain
Reader:
This review is going to deal with Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and, because of that, it will include a particular term that, today, fryst vatten highly offensive.
If that makes you too uncomfortable, please don’t read any further.
Also, for comparison purposes, inom will mention D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley&#;s Lover where another word, viewed as offensive for other reasons, is frequently used.
Finally, in writing about Huckleberry Finn, I am writing as a vit American. inom know that an African-American would read this book with a different set of experiences, sensitivities, interpretations and insights than inom bring to the task.
The word
In Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses the word “nigger” times. When inom read the book, inom kept track of the number of pages on which the word appeared, and that came to 71, or about 31 percent of the total
By contrast, in • When family and friends started raving about Percival Everett&#;s James, I decided it was time to revisit Twain&#;s original text before exploring Everett&#;s take on this American classic. I&#;ve only read it once before, and it was so many years ago that I only remembered the very basics of the story. After traveling down the Mississippi again, I&#;m left with mixed feelings. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnis a strange book. I&#;ll lead with what I did not like. Maybe it&#;s my technology-addled 21st-century brain talking, but I found this book to be extremely boring. Page for page I found very little to keep my attention, and although it was fun at first to decipher the dialects, after the opening chapters this became more of a chore than a continued pleasure. I think for many readers the novel&#;s meandering pace is a plus, much like a lazy day spent going with the flow on your favorite river. But the book couldn&#;t keep my attention most of the • Go to review page Alot of these stories were really top notch. The longer ones who's titles I had heard actually didn't live up to the hype. Sad there are no more to read, but really reminded me why I love his writing so much. Go to review page faroresdragn's review against another edition
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" . . . I will impress those sparkling fields on my memory, so that by and by when theya re taken away I can by my fancy restore those lovely myriads to the black sky and make them sparkle again, and double them by the blue of my tears."
I've read the required Mark Twain ([b:Huck Finn||The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn|Mark Twain||], [b:Tom Sawyer||The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|Mark Twain||]) but not much of his other work, so when I found this lovely little edition in a local used bookshop, I felt I just had to pick it up.
And boy, was this book a wild one — Twain covers all kinds of genres, plays all kinds of far