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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
I basically only read this as a precursor to reading James. Still, it was more fun than I expected it to be and it even kinda satisfied my recent hankering for an adventure story.
However, the last few chapters (once Tom Sawyer gets involved) are a bit of a slog and totally throw off the pace set by the rest of the book. It feels like the action, which is pretty nonstop up to this point, grinds to a halt and never resumes. And these chapters make up a sizable chunk — about a quarter — of the book. I get that Twain may have done this intentionally; as the intro of the edition I read notes, "The book slows down, then, to suggest the miserable slowness of the process of gaining black freedom in America — stuck in a mire of what might be termed Tom Sawyerism.” I can appreciate this type of satire if it was intentional, but it nonetheless made finishing the book kind of a drag.
Also, as a minor side note, it bothered me that after all the time and effort invested ingetting rid of the duke and the king, Huck and Jim are suddenly rid of them with little fanfare or involvement.
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However, the last few chapters (once Tom Sawyer gets involved) are a bit of a slog and totally throw off the pace set by the rest of the book. It feels like the action, which is pretty nonstop up to this point, grinds to a halt and never resumes. And these chapters make up a sizable chunk — about a quarter — of the book. I get that Twain may have done this intentionally; as the intro of the edition I read notes, "The book slows down, then, to suggest the miserable slowness of the process of gaining black freedom in America — stuck in a mire of what might be termed Tom Sawyerism.” I can appreciate this type of satire if it was intentional, but it nonetheless made finishing the book kind of a drag.
Also, as a minor side note, it bothered me that after all the time and effort invested in
Quote that spoke to me:
- That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.
*Listened to audiobook