wooblatoober 's review for:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

4.0

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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i enjoyed huck's author voice a lot, & his complexity as a character despite being purposely made to seem simple as a result of his social class. this book is definitely best accompanied by an introduction, ANY INTRODUCTION PLEASE (my copy didn’t have one at all ;-;) but specifically the intro by george saunders. i had never read any Mark Twain, and i always see people calling Twain such a comedic genius, & i was nervous i wouldn’t find anything funny—because i don’t find a lot of comedy funny, or because of the outdated humor, or because of jokes at the expense of enslaved people. but i was pleasantly surprised to find that i found a lot of moments very funny. huckleberry’s train of thought, simultaneously simple and complex, shallow & deeply morally questioning & thoughtful, had such a silly & relatable dichotomy that it had me laughing out loud.

tom sawyer pissed me off SO BAD.

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