Mario wrote:
I reread Huckleberry Finn about three years ago and I found
it even more splendid than before, infinitely rich if you
will allow the cliché® It's too bad that this great book has
become the subject of controversy in schools. What
stupidity... Everyone should read it.
************* What is the big controversy this time? Twain
was fairly contemporary in his views, but his sense of humor
is not exactly politically correct nowadays.
The second time around I didn't much care for the ending of
the novel. Hemingway noted that Twain was not beyond the
dubious when it came to pleasing the crowd. Dragging Tom
Sawyer back into the mix at the end for that ridiculous
facade of saving Jim struck me as just that. Even interpreted
as a satire of the romance tradition, it was overdone and
heavy-handed.
miker
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