I really enjoy Garrison Keillor's narration, so I was delighted to pick up his version of this book, as (embarrassingly) I don't think I ever got around to reading it before. If I have, it was probably for some long-ago school assignment, and I'd long-ago forgotten it.

It was only later when I realized that Keillor didn't just narrate this, he re-wrote the ending. (He talked about it in the afterword of the book.)

This amused me more than anything, as I have no particular emotional attachment to the original, and I trust Keillor as a storyteller. This version worked for me.

What's more, as someone who once re-wrote a bunch of Emily Dickinson's poetry.... I really shouldn't throw stones.

Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is the most jocular book I have ever read! I really enjoyed reading this novel and although it is meant for children audiences, the controversial issues presented by Twain in Huck moral predicament are still in being debated today. I would recommend this novel to audiences of all age because of the influence it has had on society since its debut in the 1870s. The adventure that Huck and Jim embark on up the Mississippi River is as convoluted as Huck and his growing predicament of freeing Jim or complying with society by returning Jim to his owners. This controversy is hardly a controversy in today's society, where slavery is intolerable and the use of word "nigger" is lamented, but when Twain wrote Huck Finn, the status quo was white superiority and black inferiority. This satirical perspective on societal flaws is what makes "The Adventures of Huck Finn truly the first modern American novel" (Hemingway).

Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Pap
Jim
Theme of lost and rebeilous

Listened to the audio by Elijah Wood actually. By the end, he was a proper American speaker!

This book is about a kid that lives in the 1700’s and his mom just dies and he gets 6000$. So his father tries to kidnap him and he gets loose and runs away. So he come along a slave plantation and stays there for a night and really likes it there. So he ask if he can live there and the owner says yes but then he meets Jim. Huck and Jim run away from the plantation to get out of the south.
Spoilers:!! I loved the book it was wrote very well and the storyline is very easy to follow. My favorite part was when they are sailing down the river in the night and they come across people looking for Jim. Huck saves Jim by letting him off and going over to the men and tell him to go the wrong way.

I probably would have given this four stars had I not had to annotate and read it as an assignment. This book is effective on so many levels, the first being that it is just a great adventure, and that Huck Finn has to be one of the most loveable characters. He is irreverent, empathetic, and adventurous which is how I like my protagonists (many of which I'm sure were inspired by Huck). The other levels it works on are more satirical and aimed towards social critique. It is not only a hilarious satire of many things including family feuds in the south, and the mob mentality, it is also a really historically important book that argued effectively for something far beyond it's time. This is a book I can actually approve of being taught in schools.

This book is better to be savored in a high school classroom with a passionate teacher at the helm. I have so many fond memories of sitting in tenth grade English reading and discussing Huck Finn that listening to it on my own just wasn't the same. While the audiobook narrator did a commendable job on this classic work or literature, I think it's best left to reading, preferably in a classroom setting. This is just a book that needs, cries out to be studied and discussed (despite Mark Twain's warning at the beginning of the novel).

Loved the book. Amazing adventure. Although meeting Sawyer was very bollywood movie kind of situation, the book is lovable.
Wish there was no N word in it....

I did this for my sons by audio off of #nook ..something for them to get into like I did when I was young ..just like the movie

I believe that the Notice provided at the very onset of the book (Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.) pretty much sums of the book.

I did not find a motive, a moral, nor a plot but nevertheless found the book somewhat enjoyable. I kept wanting the book to get where it was going, only to remind myself that it wasn't going anywhere and like a raft on the Mississippi I was just going to have to sit back and enjoy the ride.

I cringed at the racism in the book, but understood that's just the way it was back then and was fascinated by how people could have once (and sadly some still) think the way they did.

Overall the book was just too slow-paced for me, but I found myself several times thinking that I needed (and should have previously) read Tom Sawyer.

It was not mark twain book. I could never be as good as the original

This book was very confusing at first because of how he made it seem like they didnt no how to speak english that well and some of the words I didnt know what it was originally supposed to say but after I got used to it and all the different characters. I started to like the book a bit more it was not my favorite book ever but it also wasnt bad. The book ended up being humorous and adventuress overall this book was a 3/10 for me