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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Love, love, love this book. Until the part where Tom arrives and acts like a jerk for a few dozen pages. Before he shows up it's a perfect adventure. After he arrives, it's like a good independent movie ruined by a cameo of some strutting Hollywood A-lister. But forget that, and to the heart of why I call it "perfect."
A young person who loves trouble and has a heart of gold. What could be better? Wild things happen in every chapter, and the fear of losing his friend Jim to slavery make the story thick with tension.
During the darkest moments Huck reveals himself to be moral to the core, in a tragic, immoral society that lets people buy and sell other people. He realizes he will stand against that society in a boyish soliloquy that brings tears to my eyes whenever I read it:
"And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog. "
A young person who loves trouble and has a heart of gold. What could be better? Wild things happen in every chapter, and the fear of losing his friend Jim to slavery make the story thick with tension.
During the darkest moments Huck reveals himself to be moral to the core, in a tragic, immoral society that lets people buy and sell other people. He realizes he will stand against that society in a boyish soliloquy that brings tears to my eyes whenever I read it:
"And for a starter I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the whole hog. "