Review: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Mark Twain "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" Lewis Carroll
The reader they had for Huckleberry Finn was quite good and did well with the accents and vocal mannerisms of the characters.
There was one glaring inconsistency between the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and those of Huck Finn. In the former book Tom Sawyer knew what a ransom was, but in the beginning of Huck Finn's story, as they are forming their robber gang Huck asks Tom what a Ransom is and Tom dodges and avoids it and sounds like he doesn't know what it is.
Unlike Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn's story is in the first person, which immerses you better in the story, especially since so much of it is flavored by Huck's viewpoints. It was interesting to see his personal morals and also how they evolved during his journey South with Jim.
Towards the end you see him almost questioning the morals of slavery and how, maybe, black people aren't all that different from white people. It's on the cusp, but he's just a young teenager steeped in slavery culture with no one to tell him any different.
This is also a meandering story full of true-to-life conincidences and side-steps. Some of them tie into the main plot, others not as much.
Huck is a very likable character, he's uncanny smart in all the practical ways, even if he doesn't have a whole lot of booksense. His "Pap" is a horrible, greedy, ignorant drunkard who does nothing good for his son, other than motivate Huck to get out of town, which involved the boy faking his own death rather ingeniously.
At one point Jim and Huck meet up with a pair of frauds they refer to as The King and The Duke. These men of dubious royalty used Huck and Jim to transport them a ways down the Mississippi as they defrauded several towns in new and exciting ways. The culmination of which I will not spoil. I did enjoy it more than Tom Sawyer, though the aforementioned was also a very enjoyable story and I'd read it again.
Next up was "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," which was a remarkably short read. It was fun and weird. I did find Alice a bit insufferable. Her manners were poor and she caused many of her own problems with both her rudeness and inattentiveness. I agree with the Chesire Cat, she is also quite mad herself, even if she doesn't think it.
This reader was also enjoyable, though the audio quality was a little weird, it sounded like it was recorded in an empty room, that style of slighly echoed acoustics.
Next up is "Through The Looking Glass."
There was one glaring inconsistency between the Adventures of Tom Sawyer and those of Huck Finn. In the former book Tom Sawyer knew what a ransom was, but in the beginning of Huck Finn's story, as they are forming their robber gang Huck asks Tom what a Ransom is and Tom dodges and avoids it and sounds like he doesn't know what it is.
Unlike Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn's story is in the first person, which immerses you better in the story, especially since so much of it is flavored by Huck's viewpoints. It was interesting to see his personal morals and also how they evolved during his journey South with Jim.
Towards the end you see him almost questioning the morals of slavery and how, maybe, black people aren't all that different from white people. It's on the cusp, but he's just a young teenager steeped in slavery culture with no one to tell him any different.
This is also a meandering story full of true-to-life conincidences and side-steps. Some of them tie into the main plot, others not as much.
Huck is a very likable character, he's uncanny smart in all the practical ways, even if he doesn't have a whole lot of booksense. His "Pap" is a horrible, greedy, ignorant drunkard who does nothing good for his son, other than motivate Huck to get out of town, which involved the boy faking his own death rather ingeniously.
At one point Jim and Huck meet up with a pair of frauds they refer to as The King and The Duke. These men of dubious royalty used Huck and Jim to transport them a ways down the Mississippi as they defrauded several towns in new and exciting ways. The culmination of which I will not spoil. I did enjoy it more than Tom Sawyer, though the aforementioned was also a very enjoyable story and I'd read it again.
Next up was "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," which was a remarkably short read. It was fun and weird. I did find Alice a bit insufferable. Her manners were poor and she caused many of her own problems with both her rudeness and inattentiveness. I agree with the Chesire Cat, she is also quite mad herself, even if she doesn't think it.
This reader was also enjoyable, though the audio quality was a little weird, it sounded like it was recorded in an empty room, that style of slighly echoed acoustics.
Next up is "Through The Looking Glass."