Typical mini-review for classics...reread's got me pulling it down a star.

I've got to admit it: I skipped huge swaths of this the second time around. Even though I was reading it for a class. Even though said class is participation-based. I honestly just winged it. It worked out, whatever.

ANYWAY, this book was so. Much. Worse. This time.

Here's how I looked the first time I read it:



versus this time:



Dear Mr. Twain, did you think it took a lot of balls to write an anti-slavery book two decades after slavery was abolished? Were your uses of the N-word and offensive stereotypes in the name of modernity?

And how about your female "characters"? Were they boring sexual objects because you're just that progressive? The only halfway interesting one is f*cking dead.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is so, so much better than this. I don't even want to dwell on this anymore.

Bottom line: the only reason I'm not giving it 1 star (& instead am lowering it to 2) is that I feel I didn't even read enough of it. In other words - f*ck this.