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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain  's review Aug 01,
08  Read in December, 2007  I've never read much of Mark Twain's
stuff. I vaguely remember reading A Conneticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court in college and I think I was probably SUPPOSED to
read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at some point in school, but
this was the first time I had ever picked up what's supposed to
be his greatest work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I wish I
had done so sooner, because it was great.  If you're somehow
unfamiliar with the basic premise, Huckleberry Finn follows the
adventures of the eponymous country boy from Missouri as he
encounters trouble at home and then decides to run away via the
mighty Mississippi River. Along the way he pairs up with an
escaped slave named Jim and encounters all kinds of murderers,
thieves, aristocrats, and swindlers. The plot summary sounds
kind of like a pulp adventure story, and I admit there is a lot
of that. I can see why