Review of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Yeah, so I'm a little late to this classic tale of Americana by Mark Twain. Better late than never, right?
It was a fun listen. The narrator, Grover Gardner, did a good job with the reading, the voices and the words. There were definitely some pretty funny moments and some touching moments and even some tense moments. I particularly liked Twain's sardonic side comments on people and their beliefs, like the part where he describes the reading of the essays and just how blandly awful they generally are, but that's what the people liked, so that's what the people got.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were interesting characters, with plenty of insights of their own. They had plenty of adventures that brought me back to my days as a kid. I really enjoyed Tom Sawyer's interpretations of certain classes of characters in book, like thieves and pirates. They were always …
Yeah, so I'm a little late to this classic tale of Americana by Mark Twain. Better late than never, right?
It was a fun listen. The narrator, Grover Gardner, did a good job with the reading, the voices and the words. There were definitely some pretty funny moments and some touching moments and even some tense moments. I particularly liked Twain's sardonic side comments on people and their beliefs, like the part where he describes the reading of the essays and just how blandly awful they generally are, but that's what the people liked, so that's what the people got.
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were interesting characters, with plenty of insights of their own. They had plenty of adventures that brought me back to my days as a kid. I really enjoyed Tom Sawyer's interpretations of certain classes of characters in book, like thieves and pirates. They were always just so wrong and yet, somehow, just so right!
Admittedly, the casual racism and misogyny were a little hard to take, even if Twain himself seemed to recognize it in the book. I've never been a big fan of "coming of age" books, but this did a pretty good job of weaving an interesting story bigger than that simple thread. Glad I "read" it and am already looking forward to the sequel.
