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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Apr 29, 2007
Pros: Fun, insightful, timeless
Cons: Needs to be read to be enjoyed
Summary: Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1885) NOTICE: 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. By Order of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 5, 2011
Pros: Fun story with a great lesson in equality
Cons: Use of the N word, more episodic than a true novel.
Summary: Mark Twain opened his classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with a notice. "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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 23, 2008
Pros: Excellent social commentary, poses excellent questions, quite entertaining
Cons: Convoluted and unrealistic ending, challenging dialect, questionable actions, irreverent attitudes
Summary: ROMANTICISM, RACISM, OR DANGEROUS REALITY? Several weeks ago, I enrolled in several literature courses at university. Despite my attendance at this noble institution for two years, I had hitherto been quite unimpressed with the various classes ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 7, 2005
Pros: Provides a different way of thinking.
Cons: Twain paints a picture of ignorance in wealthy people of the south and in black.
Summary: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not at all "politically correct." It in in my opinion, that I think,that Twain was not wrong in depicting Huck and Jim and all the other characters the way he did. That was the way things were back then, and to ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 6, 2005
Pros: Very insightful on society's ways back then.
Cons: Uses the word the N word a lot.
Summary: The book Huckleberry Finn was quite an interesting. Not only did it have controversial topics in it but comical human nature descriptions. At one point in the novel, Huck states how mankind would be ashamed to see how people with common sense were ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 21, 2004
Pros: An American classic for all time.
Cons: None.
Summary: We all know the plot, so there's no sense in rehashing it; "Huckleberry Finn" is one book that has probably been reviewed to death. But this book has generated a great deal of heat and very little light lately; it's been banned in some school districts ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 18, 2004
Pros: Interesting set of snapshots of a society.
Cons: Negative, thin characterizations.
Summary: This novel is a combination of travelogue and social commentary on the culture of the southern United States as viewed through the eyes of an itinerant teenager. Huckleberry Finn is the fifteen year old son of the town drunk, in a small town in ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 28, 2004
Pros: everything! a classic
Cons: Jim's dialect will slow you down
Summary: --NOTICE—Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banned; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR Per G.G., CHIEF OF ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 22, 2002
Pros: the brilliant characterizations and the essence of the time Twain captures so well
Cons: the only con is if the reader is too politically correct for his/her own good
Summary: Only Mark Twain could have one of his characters start a novel by referring to his previous book - and get away with it.
Huckleberry Finn is a teen-age boy in the South, who in the sort of prequel to this book(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), is ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 30, 2001
Pros: great detail and description
Cons: gets repetitive, monotonous, and dull at some points
Summary: I read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for a class I had to take last year. I was kind of excited about having to read it, because I'd read other books by Mark Twain and I absolutely loved them. I'd read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer two ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 17, 2001
Pros: you'll look literate to people who don't know any better
Cons: If you like the book, you have been assimilated by the Literary Borg
Summary: I will start off with good things to say about Twain's literature: 1) "Tom Sawyer" is a good novel 2) Twain has excellent flow and attention to detail 3) Twain did well with the historical and regional dialect and 4) Twain had a good bent for humor.
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 18, 2001
Pros: Nice book to read on those rainy days
Cons: book falls apart too easily after a few reads
Summary: Remember the good old days (not that long ago) when you went to school and a teacher assigned you a book to read. Remember that rascal Tom and his buddy Huck. Most people have read the book Tom Sawyer. Everyone knows the scene when he tricks everyone ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 30, 2001
Pros: Covers many important themes in life.
Cons: Childish
Summary: In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an innocent narrator, Finn, to show that people should think for themselves. Finn is presented with various communities, yet always remains unaffected by negative influences. Twain shows that ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2001
Pros: Great Satire, great story
Cons: a little preachy, and outdated
Summary: In Mark Twain’s satirical novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain debunks many of society’s silly practices. Twain attacks the “sophisticated” people of the south with great fervor. Twain did not care much for the southern wealthy, and he uses ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 1, 2001
Pros: Evocative description, funny, earthy yet profound, knife-sharp observations, satire, adventure
Cons: Reading "Tom Sawyer" a slight prerequisite
Summary: Unlike a lot of youngsters, I was not forced to read "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in school by some classroom tyrant; I discovered it of my own free will, and was glad I did. Even granted that you have to read the high-spirited "Adventures of ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 26, 2001
Pros: It's very interesting as well as funny to read.
Cons: It's better if you're old to read it.
Summary: Huckleberry Finn in my opinion is sometimes very boring and quite aggravating. I would have read the book later in my life, but school forced me into this book. Reading it wasn't hard or bad, except for the way people spoke. There were some funny ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 24, 2001
Pros: funny, historic (but fiction)
Cons: language and race issues concern many
Summary: Whether you agree with the ideas present in this book or not, the issues addressed are vital pieces of American history involving slavery and racism and its inherence in the raising of children. Many have spoken on the issue of this book since its ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 12, 2000
Pros: great plot, simple grammatical style
Cons: none
Summary: Mark Twain's the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn demonstrates the authors ability to engage the reader's imagination and interest. Through his innocent character,Huck, Mark Twain demonstrates the powerful injustice of the slavery of the south before ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2000
Pros: Insightful novel that can be read on various levels
Cons: Some will have difficulty getting past the language
Summary: In an 1887 letter to W. D. Howells, Mark Twain wrote “High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.” In one sense this is quite true of his immortal The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; however, this classic ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 19, 2000
Pros: humor, satire, suspense
Cons: dialect may be difficult to get used to at first
Summary: The first time I started to read Huck Finn, I put it down after a few chapters because of the annoying dialect used by the slave, Jim. The second time around I neglected a paper I had due the next day because I couldn't put the book down. The book read ... read more
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