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I'm about to read Huck Finn

What to expect? In which mindset should I be in to?
Do you like it?

Free for discussion, just use the spoiler tag if needed plz.

>> No.1946673

high school book

indifferent to it overall

>> No.1946679

>>1946666

Shit Satan, do whatever the fuck you want.

Was supposed to read it in high school. Never got past page 70 because I'm a lazy bastard and dat dialogue.

>> No.1946827

>>1946673
>>1946679
They only teach in highschool in america.

>> No.1946851

>>1946666
Maybe get a tiny bit of background on Twain or even read one or two of his short stories. Also, read it like an adventure/comedy book as much as a literary giant.

I only appreciated Huck Finn once I spent a couple semesters studying other books written in America before and during the time of Twain (i.e. Portrait of Lady, a thoroughly long-winded and dull book). His influence becomes much more apparent once you've done that. I shudder to think what could have happened to American literature without him.

But yeah, just remember that he is as much a hero to the modern comedians and satirists as he is to writers. It's really an incredible accomplishment.

>> No.1946857

Hey OP, make sure you mentally prepare yourself for reading Huck Finn.

holy. shit. man.

>> No.1946923

>>1946851
Thanks bro

>> No.1946931

>What to expect?

Fun, adventure, comedy, satire..

>> No.1946942 [DELETED] 

Don't read the edition where they swapped the word "nigger" with "roody-poo".

>> No.1947049

>im about to read something
>tell me how and what to think about it

what is the fucking point?