The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

English language

Published Oct. 19, 1995

ISBN:
978-0-553-21128-3
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4 stars (212 reviews)

The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. Winner of the 1967 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award

286 editions

Review of 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

3.5 stars rounded down. Too long, but overall a fun time. I liked the ending enough to pick up book 2, I think, especially with this just being a duology.

I like the writing style of Wendel a lot. It’s not too quippy or jokey. But neither did it feel melodramatic. Great balanced tone for me.

I also enjoyed Bel and Lena as characters. Their personalities and motivations worked for me, and I was moved by some of their scenes near the end.

Problems I had:
1. Horrendously slow start. I picked this up because it’s a romantasy but it didn’t feel like one til close to halfway through. Then all of a sudden it’s nonstop attraction.
2. World building/lore issue. Why are the humans and avians at war? There’s something about gemstones mentioned, but it’s a gigantic blank for the most part.
3. Lena and Bel are remarkably cordial …

reviewed Le avventure di Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Einaudi Classici)

Difficile

4 stars

Tra le grosse differenze di epoca tra il periodo in cui è stato scritto e quello in cui ci troviamo noi, il romanzo non è di facile approccio: è fondamentalmente uno sguardo sulle avventure di un ragazzino qualsiasi cresciuto nel Sud degli Stati Uniti d'America, ma di fatto non c'è una trama di fondo, solo un personaggio cardine.

Review of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Girls, Tom Sawyer is your Prince Charming!

There are a lot of things I like in the book. Tom Sawyer is a remarkable character this book created.

Just imagine, there is a boy who falls in love with you when he first sees you, and he doesn’t hesitate to say “I love you”; a boy who wants to engage with you when he figured out you also like him; a boy who gives you a brass andiron-knob to mend the relationship when he hurts you; a boy who takes the whipping for you when you made the mistakes; a boy who takes you for adventures; a boy who never gives up hope when you too are trapped in a cave and he is as freaked out as you; a boy who kissed you, when you are too weak in the cave, “with a chocking sensation in his throat, and made …

Review of 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

The second part and conclusion to the Clockwork Boys. Slate (the guerilla accountant), Brenner (the assassin), Caliban (the excommunicated paladin) and of course the Learned Edmund continue their mission to find and destroy the origin of the Clockwork Boys, giant mobile siege engine type things that are devastating their side in the war. To do this means infiltrating the city they come from, a city where Slate has a very high price on her head and where Learned Edmund has his own mysteries to solve about where another member of his order has vanished to.

Continuing the tone and the fun of the first part, this is a fun fantasy filled with a thieves' gallery of dubious characters, gnoles (badger-like people), and demons. Was very sad when it ended and want to read many many more.

Review of 'Adventures of Tom Sawyer' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Second part of the story : as good as the first.

It could be that gamers would appreciate this even more than I did:the main characters are straight out of their world, with a thief, an assassin, a knight and a scholar, but the author rounds them out and gives each of them individuality. The dialogues are often funny - although sometimes the author seems to be straining a little. The situations are often full of suspense, and the ending is satisfactory. It's one of the better books I've read over the last twelve months.

BTW, T Kingfisher studied anthropology. One of the themes of the novel is a riff on the relationship between an ethnologist - in this case, the priest of the Many-Armed God - and his informants - here, the gnoles. It captures some of the dynamics and of the problems involved - both practical and ethical …

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