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Happy 123 Huck!!!!

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:20 pm
by mitsuki lover
The novel that even Ernest Hemingway acknowledged as the greatest novel ever written in America turns 123 today.Huckleberry Finn was originally published on Feb.18,1885.Since that date generations have come to read and
love the story of Huck Finn,Jim the runaway slave of Aunt Polly and their trip down the Mississippi.
Along the way it has also become controversial and even challenged.
But what makes it one of the best and greatest books of all times remains.
Adventure and humor and a slice of Americana in the 1840s.:thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb:

PostPosted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:03 pm
by LadyRushia
mitsukilover wrote:Since that date generations have come to read and
love the story of Huck Finn

Well, generations have come to read it because most schools require it; and based on the equation of "book+required for school=fail," it's probably safe to say that most don't love the story. I thought it was okay, but I read it quickly. Still, I guess it's cool that the book is 123-years-old, but isn't 125 a more celebrated number?

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:23 pm
by mitsuki lover
Well any way you slice it is still THE classic American novel.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:24 pm
by Fish and Chips
Don't bother Mitsuki Lover with the details.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:48 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
Huck Finn was piece of crap. The Great Gatsby, Equus, The Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, or The Crucible. Those books were some of the better American Classics. Huck Finn was just lame and retarded.

And I enjoyed Hemmingway's writings over Twain's/Clement's.

PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:43 pm
by rocklobster
Mr. SmartyPants (post: 1200971) wrote:Huck Finn was piece of crap. The Great Gatsby, Equus, The Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, or The Crucible. Those books were some of the better American Classics. Huck Finn was just lame and retarded.

And I enjoyed Hemmingway's writings over Twain's/Clement's.


Oh come on, he wasn't!
That book was written in defense of abolition!:rant:

PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:00 pm
by bakura_fan
I havn't read it yet....All I know about is Tom Sawyer. Most of the classics I know about were from watching wishbone (I miss wishbone).

PostPosted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:20 pm
by Fish and Chips
I've never read Tom Sawyer, but I hated his character in Huck Finn.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:02 am
by Maledicte
I prefered Tom Sawyer to Huckleberry Finn. Like Bakura_fan, I'm more familiar with the Wishbone versions. And the Tom and Huck movie owns all.