The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

From the publisher

A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer’s aunt who mistakes him for Tom.

Read by Elijah Wood

My Review

I mean … it’s Huck Finn! It’s one of the Great American Novels for a reason. This is not going to be an overly critical or thoughtful review. It is what it is.

Huckleberry Finn gets into a long series of adventures and misadventures in this classic novel by Mark Twain. I wanted to go back and refresh myself on the original text before picking up James by Percival Everett, which tells the story of Huck Finn from Jim’s point of view.

I will say, if I had tried to pick up a print copy of this classic, I likely would have had a very different experience that I did listening to Elijah Wood narrate it at 2x speed. I also did not have my English Literature major hat on while listening.

If I were to time travel back to high school or college, I’m sure I could write essay after essay on this book (and many, many students have done so). But today, the audiobook served its purpose and I’m grateful for it.