Tuesday, February 5, 2008
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great book. You know how they have those books that are real classics and then they make them a kids book? Well this book is a classic but the copy that I'm reading is the original text. Or at lest that's what my mom says. But I kind of know that this is the original book because, well, this book (so far) has no swearing, but it does have the "N" word in it. If you don't know what the "N" word is, you don't have to. I'm only on page 12 because it's a pretty dense book, but, I still think it's a great book I mean, It's funny and it (so far) is a great adventure ( I guess that's why it's called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). I would rate this this book a 10 because of the reasons I just said. But I just started the book so the rating might change, but I don't think so.
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I'm really glad that you're reading this book; it has always been one of my favorites. I think that Tom Sawyer, also by Mark Twain, comes before The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, but I'm not sure. I love both of these books because of the time that they take place and because Twain's story telling is engaging.
ReplyDeleteI'm pleased that you're reading the original, rather than a "kid" version.
That sounds like an interesting book. I think that it is cool that you are reading the original copy because the copy that is eaiser probably not as interesting.
ReplyDeleteHow did you find out about this book? I also liked how you used a questionin the begining of the post.
Ok, I'm not even half way done yet with Huckleberry Finn so I am posting again. This book is still good but it is really confusing because it skips around but I think it is mostly that I get lost in the book, or lost outside of it. I day dream when I read this book, more than any other book I have read. I wonder why. I don't know what to write about even though Maggie told me some think that would be good for the post I forgot. So I am going to wright about this pome that's in the book. I am not going to write the pome since it's really long, but , wait I don't know what to write about the pome because it doesn't really mean any thing to the book, I mean if this was a mystery book it would e different, but, this book is an adventure. But adventures are mystery but not really in this place. Not yet anyways. I don't what to drop the book, so I'll keep reading.
ReplyDeleteYou seem quite confused Katie. I agree with you though, and I definatly think that book is hard to follow.
ReplyDeleteI'm still reading this book and I'm starting to get it more. It's still confusing at most parts but now I can finaly follow it. I think some how, it's more easy to read the book when Huck is talking to friend like Tom Sawyer and/or Jim the slave. It's still confusing when new people just randomly come in to the story and Huck and those guys start talking to them. This kind of adventure is confusing too. Don't ask me why, it just is. It really seems like his friend Jim gets in a lot of troble just because he's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Half of the time when that happens in some way it's because of Huck. I think I'm going to go and read the firs book Tom Sawer, and probably I'm going to read Huck Finn Too. But I know I'm AT LEAST going to finish Huck Finn once.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, this book is really confusing. It's mainly because of how it skips around, but also the characters slur their words together. Usually I can hear that in my head and understand the words just fine. However, the words are written slurred. For example, "...'bout yo' pints. I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it: en dey ain' no sense in sich doings as dat." That kind of text is hard for me to read so, that I can understand, I have to read aloud to myself. I wonder why the author (Mark Twain) wrote the book that way? I do know that the book is really old, so that could be why. Another thing is that this one character Jim is extremely superstitious. What puzzles me is that they aren't black cat, ladder, step on a crack, or mirror superstitions. They are wacky ones, like touching snakes, talking about people who have died, and those are just the ones that I think are really crazy so far. I wonder if these not so common superstitions were really common when the book was written. Just like now the superstitions aren't anything like those.
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