Further Adventures of Huck Finn

by Greg Matthews

Book Overview

Hardcover: 500 pages Publisher: Crown Publishers; First Edition edition (December 12, 1988) Language: English ISBN-10: 0517550571 ISBN-13: 978-0517550571 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517550571
• ISBN13: 9780517550571
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Worthy Sucessor To Twain And A Master Of His Craft!!!

I have nothing but great admiration for Greg Matthews and his books which I have all read. In this novel Mr. Matthews steps easily into the shoes of Mark Twain which is quite a courageous and daunting task for any writer. In this book we see Huckleberry and his friend Jim escape from the confines of "Civilized Society" and hit the open road in search of Freedom and Adventure of which there is plenty of in this book. Huckleberry catches "Gold Fever" and as Mark Twain would have put it "ligts out" to California seeking his Fortune.The book has an authentic 1800's feel about it and one can easily forget that this was not written by Mark Twain himself. A Masterpiece and a Joy to read!!!

I Loved it! I felt it had Twain's feel all around.

I read this on the 100th anniversary of the great "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', when it first was published in 1985. I was amazed at how well Matthews wrote in Twain's 'Huck-style'. I had read Twain's "Tom and Huck Among the Indians", which Twain never finished, and I know why. It just wasn't good. This book replaces that one in sending Huck to the west, and does it very well. The only thing I did not like about it was that Huck finds out that Pap was not really dead. It's a big part of the plot here and is needed for the story, but I wish Matthews had put some other villain in (like perhaps an uncle of Huck's), instead of resurrecting a person who DEFINITELY was found DEAD in the original book. Regardless, this hardcover book stands next to my various copies of 'Huckleberry Finn', including two from 1885 (one with first printing errors), and Rainbow Classics versions I had as a kid. It's a proud addition!

Sam would've loved it!

Unlike the reader who felt that Matthews' plot "would've left old Sam gasping in shock," I'm convinced that this book would have left the original author rolling on the floor with laughter. It's very much the sort of story that Twain would have loved to write--if Livy would have let him, and if his publishers would have printed it!For one thing, Twain's well-documented loathing for organized religion and its hypocrisy comes through loud and clear in this book, especially in the traveling gospel show/whorehouse chapters. This may come as a shock to those who have only read "sanitized-for-publication" novels likeTom Sawyer, but it's the authentic spirit of Twain here. If you have any doubts on that score, find yourself a copy of Twain's "Letters From the Earth" or his even rarer "Christian Science"--a masterful indictment of that cult, written tongue in cheek as a paean of praise to "the world's greatest businesswoman." It'll open your eyes, I promise.Those who complain that Matthews is bloodthirsty must surely have forgotten the nightmarish scenes of drunken child abuse at the opening of "Huckleberry Finn"; the vicious Sheperdson-Grangerford feud and its extremely bloody climax; the pointless shooting of the village drunk; the brutal tarring and feathering of the Duke and the King, and so on. Huck Finn's story as Twain told it was no bed of roses.The only place where Matthews falls even a bit short is in the dialog--not surprisingly for an Aussie. Twain was extremely particular about his dialects, going so far as to insert a note at the book's beginning to explain that he was using three or more specific regional dialects, lest the reader suppose that "these characters are trying to talk alike and not succeeding." But only a linguist or a hopeless nitpicker would let the occasional oddities of speech in Matthews' book detract from enjoying this wickedly funny, rollicking tale, fully worthy of the master storyteller himself.

Almost as good as Twain if not better!

A very good read, Greg Matthews could be twain re-incarnated! I am A big fan of Twain and could not tell a difference in the writers' style. Definately an excellent book, the only bad part is that the book ends!

A remarkably daring and authentic follow up to the original

Matthews sequel surpasses Twain's own attempts to recapture the magic with Tom Sawyer Abroad and "" Detective. He takes Huck on one heck'a an adventure. We see him becomming a man. Matthews also shows appropriate respect for Jim as well. This book is fast and unpredictable. I loved it!