Book #30- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in 1884

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 First I’ll say that overall this book was okay.  I started with this title because I thought I would read it in a weekend and get to put the first book review on our blog.  Instead things happened and it took way longer than expected to finish.  I just couldn’t find the time to sit down and read.  Was it because I was so busy, or was it because I didn’t make the time?  When I like a book, I usually can’t put it down.  I constantly think about the story and can’t wait to get back to it.  That did not happen with this title. 

I was sure I had already read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in junior high or earlier.  I have had the book on my shelf forever and even found a really old bookmark in the pages.  That being said, I didn’t really remember the story- maybe it was Tom Sawyer that I read and I was just getting the titles confused.  Maybe I had only really seen the movie- it was like I was reading it for the first time- because it wasn’t familiar at all.  The parts that were familiar in my mind contained scenes with Elijah Wood- therefore I must have only seen the movie. 

The plot is about a young boy who runs away from an abusive home and goes on an adventure down the Mississippi river with a runaway slave named Jim.  Reading about society in that time makes me so happy I wasn’t growing up in the South in the 1800s.  Along the way Huck and Jim become good friends and meet all sorts of interesting people.  Tom Sawyer also makes appearances throughout the book, significantly at the end.  Together they get into all kinds of trouble and make situations way more difficult than they need to be, but of course everything works out in the end.

I will give this book an 87%- a solid B-B+.  It wasn't what I was expecting, but I'm tempted to read  Mark Twain's other books about Tom Sawyer.  I'm interested in finding out more, especially what Twain envisioned for his characters as young men.  It would be fun to read about Tom Sawyer- Detective.  Of course- I'll read those after I complete this list of 100 books.      
  

-Lucinda