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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Been a while since Huck Finn, & I finally got around to reading this, a certain preparation text for the Mississippi River classic. This one is considered far inferior, & it is. Although, I must admit, the opening is stronger and the adventures are more varied. There is substantially more comedy in this, more of a dabbling with the picaresque—far more enjoyable then. But Huckleberry Finn has a more pervasive pathos than this one: overall, a stronger sense of the loneliness experienced one lazy Sunday afternoon in the deep gone-now South...
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February 8, 2012
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Sep 24, 2016 06:48AM
I've not read Huckleberry Fin or Tom Sawyer! I Must
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Greg wrote: "I've not read Huckleberry Fin or Tom Sawyer! I Must" They are quite interesting...
Well, Fabian, I hope Huck Finn is better.
Thanks for the review Fabian. You nailed it.
Franky wrote: "Thanks for the review Fabian. You nailed it."Thank you, Franky! f
Those books were my favorite childhood reads. I've re-read This and the Huckleberry Finn book many times, but it has been decades since and I haven't read them as an adult. Maybe I should!
Glad you saw the comedy--which is ahat all great English novels are, from Tom Jones to Tristram Shandy to all of Austen, to Middlemarch, etc. This is also a resonan critique of buth education ("English composition") and church in America. Yeah, the conclusion is corny--Horatio Alger, but, overall, I'd argue it's better the Huck a Duck.
I like how you included what you expected before reading vs what you thought after the book
