Reviews - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Illustrated

Mark Twain

3.5 AVERAGE

bookhamster88's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

daydreaming_knitter's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging funny sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

xwthorne's review against another edition

4.25

dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

daner's review against another edition

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

andisko's review against another edition

3.25

Extremely mid. I don’t really understand its classic status. I typically don’t mind dialect, but in this book the black dialect especially is unnecessarily difficult to understand. This book is basically a fictional travelogue with little in the form of overarching plot. Many of the episodes are dull.

margarita_bronshteyn's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny

mrs_galaxywanderer091825's review against another edition

4.0

The beginning of this book was a rough one for me. There was a boredom that I found unexpected for the first four or five chapters. Once Twain let Huck Finn act and speak more like himself his story became far more interesting. There were a few brief moments of boredom but they were mostly when traveling on a raft or canoe in the middle and latter parts of the novel. But there is only so much a person can do on a raft at night so that boredom period is explainable. The rest were enjoyable and exciting adventures, which is what I would expect from Huck Finn.

Honestly, I have always liked Huck Finn more than Tom Sawyer. There always seemed to be these smarts, kindness, and likability that Tom just never had. Tom Sawyer seems like a spoiled brat who only cares about himself and "his plans." When Tom arrives back on the scene close to the end of the book it just proves what I've always believed: Tom Sawyer is an egotistical spoiled child with a flair for extravagant theatrics!! He would actually make someone else suffer who never did anything to him by sending them back to slavery all so he can plan a great escape... This kid needs to get in touch with emotions and have some sense knocked into him. For someone who is suppose to be smart he sure did not act like it.

The way Twain wrote from Huck's perspective was a nice change from Tom's all seeing narrator. The novel felt more personal in my opinion. I also love that Huck was shown as a fan of slavery because I can't recall a single novel ever writing from this perspective besides Gone with the Wind. Personally I do not agree with slavery or ever thought it was right, but it was interesting seeing the other point of view on the topic. This was definitely a good read.