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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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How many people get to crash their funeral?
Is it sort of weird that I want to do this? I mean it would be such a fun surprise for people or bad depending on what they thought of you. Imagine going to the funeral of your sworn enemy and then he bursts through the door, you’d be so disappointed or as equally amazed if you just buried your best friend and he turns up to say hi.
It something to ponder at least, other than that this book is pretty shit. I mean the narrative structure is a mess, the dialogue is appalling (please note I said dialogue, and not dialect,) and the characters are pretty flat. This book really isn’t all that. The plot is very up and down; it doesn’t flow like a well-structured novel should. It’s like Twain ran out of steam at certain points and had to push in some awkwardly clunky event to get the plot moving again. It didn’t feel like a natural course of events. And this brings be back to the dialogue. Tom’s aunty, I forget her name, had some real terrible sections that were so packed full of pointlessness. It was dull, so very dull. I really didn’t get a lot out of it.
Tom Sawyer, so called bad-boy of American literary culture, your story was disappointing.
Is it sort of weird that I want to do this? I mean it would be such a fun surprise for people or bad depending on what they thought of you. Imagine going to the funeral of your sworn enemy and then he bursts through the door, you’d be so disappointed or as equally amazed if you just buried your best friend and he turns up to say hi.
It something to ponder at least, other than that this book is pretty shit. I mean the narrative structure is a mess, the dialogue is appalling (please note I said dialogue, and not dialect,) and the characters are pretty flat. This book really isn’t all that. The plot is very up and down; it doesn’t flow like a well-structured novel should. It’s like Twain ran out of steam at certain points and had to push in some awkwardly clunky event to get the plot moving again. It didn’t feel like a natural course of events. And this brings be back to the dialogue. Tom’s aunty, I forget her name, had some real terrible sections that were so packed full of pointlessness. It was dull, so very dull. I really didn’t get a lot out of it.
Tom Sawyer, so called bad-boy of American literary culture, your story was disappointing.
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Reading Progress
January 17, 2014
– Shelved
October 28, 2015
– Shelved as:
children-of-all-ages
January 9, 2016
– Shelved as:
classics
Started Reading
October 17, 2016
– Shelved as:
2-star-reads
October 17, 2016
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Finished Reading
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I really like some of Twain's quotes but I've never actually read a longer text by him. Excellent review.
Polly. Aunt Polly. The Widow Douglas is more entertaining, in an alarming way (see companion volume, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
Thank God, I am not the only one that finds it dissapointing...
I understand your review. Most in my friends' list were overwhelmingly positive about this, but it's written in such a way that it feels overly assured and proud of its tweeness and preciousness. This just isn't for me. I found "Dandelion Wine" and "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" similar in their own ways, but both were much more appealing.
Thanks for the review.
Igor