Gert Modeling and Simulation: Fundamentals and Applications (Petrocelli/Charter modern decision analysis series)

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A step-by-step guide for today's modeling and simulation practices

This new guide for modeling and simulation of discrete-event systems (DES) demonstrates why simulation is fast becoming the method of choice for the evaluation of system performance in science, engineering, and management. The book begins with the basics of conventional simulation, then proceeds to modern simulation-treating sensitivity analysis and optimization in a wide range of systems that exhibit complex interaction of discrete events. These include communications networks, flexible manufacturing systems, PERT (project evaluation and review techniques) networks, queueing systems, and more.

Less focused on theory than on presenting a clear approach to practical applications, Modern Simulation and Modeling:
* Emphasizes concepts rather than mathematical completeness
* Integrates references and explanations of complex topics into the body of the text
* Provides an innovative chapter on rare-event probability estimation
* Describes the implementation of the score function (SF) method using the NSO simulation package
* Features 40 illustrations and numerous algorithms
* Offers extensive, end-of-chapter exercise sets
* Includes chapter bibliographies for further reading

Modern Simulation and Modeling is an essential text for graduate students of DES and stochastic processes and for undergraduate students in simulation. It is also an excellent reference for professionals in statistics and probability, mathematics, and management science.

Are you nuts?(casting process modeling/simulation software)(Editorial): An article from: Modern Casting

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Are you nuts?(casting process modeling/simulation software)(Editorial): An article from: Modern Casting
Alfred T. Spada
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Title: Are you nuts?(casting process modeling/simulation software)(Editorial)
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'Combo' modeling method provides extra solidification insight; casting examples verify that this thermal and volumetric simulation technique closely analyzes ... shop floor.: An article from: Modern Casting

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'Combo' modeling method provides extra solidification insight; casting examples verify that this thermal and volumetric simulation technique closely analyzes ... shop floor.: An article from: Modern Casting
David C. Schmidt
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This digital document is an article from Modern Casting, published by American Foundrymen's Society, Inc. on October 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1766 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: 'Combo' modeling method provides extra solidification insight; casting examples verify that this thermal and volumetric simulation technique closely analyzes the forces at work on your shop floor.
Author: David C. Schmidt
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Date: October 1, 1997
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Computer modeling leads topics. (applications in the foundry industry) (96th AFS Casting Congress Milwaukee): An article from: Modern Casting

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Computer modeling leads topics. (applications in the foundry industry) (96th AFS Casting Congress Milwaukee): An article from: Modern Casting

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This digital document is an article from Modern Casting, published by American Foundrymen's Society, Inc. on June 1, 1992. The length of the article is 676 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Computer modeling leads topics. (applications in the foundry industry) (96th AFS Casting Congress Milwaukee)
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Computer solidification modeling speeds design-to-production cycle. (software for metal castings industry): An article from: Modern Casting

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Computer solidification modeling speeds design-to-production cycle. (software for metal castings industry): An article from: Modern Casting
Lawrence E. Smiley
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Title: Computer solidification modeling speeds design-to-production cycle. (software for metal castings industry)
Author: Lawrence E. Smiley
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Cupola modeling project nearing phase II.: An article from: Modern Casting

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Experimental frames in a modern modeling and simulation system.(Honoring Alan Pritsker): An article from: IIE Transactions

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Experimental frames in a modern modeling and simulation system.(Honoring Alan Pritsker): An article from: IIE Transactions
Thorsten Daum , and Robert G. Sargent
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Title: Experimental frames in a modern modeling and simulation system.(Honoring Alan Pritsker)
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Keeping up with process simulation technology: this casting process modeling software roundup provides metalcasters with details on the latest advancements. ... : An article from: Modern Casting

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Gale Reference Team
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Modeling filters in the future: the standard method of modeling filtration devices is good, but the ability to model actual filters in the future will be better.: An article from: Modern Casting

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Modeling filters in the future: the standard method of modeling filtration devices is good, but the ability to model actual filters in the future will be better.: An article from: Modern Casting
Anthony Midea , and Luciano Oliveira
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First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of world literature. Narrated by Huck himself in his artless venacular, it tells of his voyage down the Mississippi with a runaway slave named Jim. As the two journey downstream on a raft, Huck's vivid descriptions capture the sights, smells, sounds, and rhythms of life on the great river. As they encounter traveling actors, con men, lynch mobs, thieves, and Southern gentility, his shrewd comments reveal the dark side of human nature. By the end of the story, Huck has learned about the dignity and worth of human life—and Twain has exposed the moral blindness of the "respectable" slave-holding society in which he lives. Huckleberry Finn was Twain's greatest creation. Garrison Keillor approaches it with the respect and affection it deserves.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Audiobook on CD)

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Audiobook on CD)

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This audio adaptation of an American classic introduces you to Tom Sawyer. Tom has caves to explore, young ladies to charm and late night adventures with best friend Huck Finn. But it's not all fun and games for Tom - Injun Joe is looking for him - and he means to find Tom and keep him quite for good.

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Inventive "sequel" to Huck Finn
A Worthy Sucessor To Twain And A Master Of His Craft!!!
I Loved it! I felt it had Twain's feel all around.
Sam would've loved it!
Poor, Poor Huck

Further Adventures of Huck Finn
Greg Matthews
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Release Date: 1988-12-12

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Inventive "sequel" to Huck Finn.......2006-07-12

Greg Matthews has "borrowed" a great deal from Mark Twain to create this "sequel" to HUCKLEBERRY FINN - his characters, writing style, humor, and talent in creating sheer adventure. Huck and Jim head west with a wagon train to the gold diggings in California. Of course they experience all sorts of adventures along the way involving Indians, whores, con artists, good people and bad, as well as typical California Trail incidents such as buffalo hunts and wild weather events. Huck is accused of murdering Judge Thatcher back in Missouri and before it's all over there's an interesting conclusion to that storyline, which ends with Jim and Huck living in the governor's house in San Francisco. What Matthews does, he does very well. The humor is broad and tantalizing, and he's got Huck's speech and mannerisms down pat. What he doesn't take from Twain, however, is his biting satirical commentary on the way society operated. Although Matthews is as concerned with cruelty, for example, as Twain was, Matthews uses it mostly for comic effect rather than to criticize societal behavior regarding it. But Huck has as sharp a nose as ever and can sniff out hypocrisy a mile away. The book's humor is delightful and that's what makes it so much fun to read. Not to be substituted for the original by any means, it's a clever and comical work in its own right.

A Worthy Sucessor To Twain And A Master Of His Craft!!!.......2005-04-14

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........2005-02-03

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!.......2001-02-08

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.

Poor, Poor Huck.......2000-04-04

I will agree with everyone else in that Matthews can really mimic Twain's style of writing (that's the reason behind my 3 star rating), however I think his story itself would've left old Sam gasping in shock. For one, Matthews seems determined to put Huck through hell in the course of this very long novel. I understand that he was trying to show how it's sometimes hard to grow from a naive kid into a man, but he went a bit too far...think over all the hardships Huck had to endure in this book. And every time he would overcome one, another would materialize instantly. There are also more coincidences in this novel than your average sitcom. Despite the fact that Huck is traveling through the entire Wild West, he consistently meets and re-meets the same people over and over again, not to mention the Detective who is after him, who must run off Duracel batteries. My main problem with the book, though, is how bloodthirsty Matthews is. By page 50 he's already killed off half the people you know and remember from the Huck Finn books Twain wrote (Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective). And that's another thing, Matthews totally ignored these final two books, sequels which Twain himself wrote and which continue Huck and Tom's adventures. As far as this novel of Matthew's is concerned, those books never happened. His portrayal of Tom Sawyer is off as well; Tom changes into a girl-smitten tool within the first five pages, and proceeds to ignore his best friend Huck. And let's not mention how much personal hell and torment Matthews puts Jim through. Let's also not mention that Matthews has to create plot devices by resurrecting characters that Twain killed off - I'm talking about one character in particular whom he has brought back, for no other reason than to add even more torment to Huck's unbearable lot in life. I tell you, the main thing this book left me with was sadness for old Huck and Jim. They deserved better. And they got it, at least in the books Twain himself wrote - Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, and also the unfinished stories which are collected in Huck and Tom Among the Indians. I would recommend them, unless you like your Huck with a lot of angst. Not me, though. I'll save that for the real world.

Huck Finn (Bloom's Major Literary Characters)

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Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians

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Brutal! Don't read this book!
The rights to this book should never been released ... terrible isn't strong enough word
Written by American literary legend Mark Twain
The Year of Huck Finn
Terrible!

Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians
Mark Twain , and Lee Nelson
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In 1885 while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was becoming one of the best-selling American classics of modern times, Mark Twain began this sequel in which Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer and Jim head west on the trail of two white girls kidnapped by Sioux warriors, learning the hard way that "book Injuns and real Injuns ain't the same." Fifteen thousand words into the work, Twain stopped in the middle of a sentence, never to go back; the unfinished story sitting on dusty shelves for more than a hundred years until The University of California cut a deal with Utah author Lee Nelson to finish it.

This story, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians, is the first new book with Mark Twain's name on it in nearly a hundred years, with readers saying they can't tell where Twain stops and Nelson begins: a story of adventure, wit and wisdom with Tom and Huck seeking true love while tramping through hostile Indian country, befriending Bill Hickman and Porter Rockwell, stealing from the United States Army, then on to face a gunfight and hangman's noose in Sacramento, California.

Author's Note: I discovered Mark Twain's unfinished story Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians when it was published in Life Magazine in 1968. I was in the Brigham Young University barbershop, reading part of the story before my haircut, and I read the rest afterward.

I was enthralled, hanging on every word as Huck, Tom and Jim joined up with the Mills family on the Platte River. A group of Sioux Indians befriended the family, then suddenly slaughtered the parents and older boys, and kidnapped the two girls and Jim. Huck and Tom joined forces with mountain man Brace Johnson to follow the Indians and rescue the girls. As they approached the Indian camp, getting ready for a daring rescue, the story suddenly ended, right in the middle of a sentence. I was so disappointed. Although Mark Twain wrote and published a number of books and stories after 1885, he never finished this one.

Early in 2002, while watching a documentary on Mark Twain on a local PBS station, I remembered reading the Among the Indians story in the barbershop. By this time I had published a dozen historical novels with settings on the American frontier, and realized I was probably as qualified as any other living author to finish the work begun by Twain. A little research on the web led me to those who controlled the copyright—The Mark Twain Foundation and the University of California Press. Contact was made, approval was granted, a contract was drawn up, and the following story is the result.

I have no idea how Twain intended to finish the story, and I reason that he didn't know either, or he would have done it. I just hope that wherever he is, he enjoys my conclusion as much as I enjoyed his beginning.

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Brutal! Don't read this book!.......2006-01-19

Lee Nelson wrote a terrible story. The Mark Twain portion of the book is barely readable but Nelsons part is a horror, an Old West/LDS spawned abomination that drags on and on. Through the reoccurring floods of indignation I could not shake the feeling that Nelson was trying to work in all the weird bits of useless Western information he has at his disposal, for example, the mice and honey feast added nothing whatsoever to the story, it merely increased my contempt for this lame tale.
The characters were unbelievable and impossible to become attached to. I did not recognized, and will not acknowledge; the whinning, uncertain Tom Sawyer, the sensitive, thoughtful, careful, gunslinging(!) Huck Finn, or ultra thickheaded Jim, whom I thought would leave the Indians as soon as he could and at least make an attempt to return to his wife and children (wrong!).
Nelson needs to spend more time researching his subjects before writing a book like this. Basic fact finding skills are important as we can see from the glaring ommissions, flaws and obvious glossing over of the nasty spots, most notably in regards to the Mormon faith and their activities in the early West.

I am a big fan of M. Twain's writing but after reading this vile monstrosity I am left with an unshakable icky feeling, that a literary Nobody can take one of the best loved characters in literature and reform him, (Nelson thinks he's better than the Widow Douglas) turn him into a boring, mooning, pistol packing, Mormon, living in the Old West without a longing for his former haunts or the River his name is nearly synonymous with. Abominable!
What a horrible story, I came to hate these characters, every one! (Not Twain's characters, Nelson's, there is a huge difference.)

Quickly people, read the originals and right your world!

My Opinion-- If you want to know what Lee Nelson's daydream fantasy world is like then read this unbearable book.

The rights to this book should never been released ... terrible isn't strong enough word.......2005-09-29

Mark Twain is turning in his grave with the existence of this book. The author petitioned to get the rights to finish the book and then completed the story in unparalled historical revisionist style.

Here are the major objections.

First, Mark Twain would not have written anything that is so clearly intended to promote the Mormon agenda. If you don't believe me, consider this. The author has Tom Sawyer converting to Mormonism because it's the first religious book that he's read that's made sense.

In addition to the blatant Mormon propoganda, Lee Jordan completely contradicts the many historians who have established the battle between the Mormons, settlers crossing to California, native Americans and the US government. If a native American read this book, they'd be outraged to know that the author assigns the savage behavior completely to the native Americans.

In addition to other complaints, Lee Jordan introduces violent themes unnecessarily. The transition from Twain is NOT seamless and to market this book or tape under his name is an outrage!

Written by American literary legend Mark Twain.......2004-01-13

Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among The Indians presents a manuscript, written by American literary legend Mark Twain, written as a sequel to his classic novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" but which was left unfinished - in the middle of a climactic confrontation, no less. Long after Mark Twain's passing, ardent fan and scholar Lee Nelson gained approval of the Mark Twain Foundation (who were the legal holders of the copyright to Mark Twain's unfinished work), and finished the story with a flavor and a style as close to the feel of the original author, as well as an abiding hope that Mark Twain himself would approve even if modern-day literary scholars did not. The result is a fantastic adventure story, that revisits Huck, Tom, and Jim - when a group of Sioux Indians commits murder and kidnaping, Huck and Tom must mount a rescue to save the surviving victims, including Jim himself. Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among The Indians is an absolute "must-read" for anyone who enjoyed Mark Twain's original Huckleberry Finn classic.

The Year of Huck Finn.......2003-09-08

Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is The Place and Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered

This is the year that Mark Twain is back in the news. The University of California Press has just published an amazing--for lack of a word that suits it better--"study" of Huckleberry Finn and several groups have formed a consortium and issued a CD-ROM that also examines the process that went into the writing of this novel. With all this fuss about Huck, it seems a shame that the LA Times and others have pretty much ignored another effort that helps make this the "Year of Huck Finn."

Those who love Mark Twain also know that he started another novel called Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians told in Huck's voice and that he stopped dead in the middle of a sentence somewhere along about the middle. I remember reading this fragment in Life Magazine in 1968, just as a fellow author from Utah did. The difference between our two experiences is that Lee Nelson decided to do something about it; he obtained the rights to use this fragment so he could finished Twain's second book about one of our nation's most well-known protagonists.

Amazingly enough, Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer Among the Indians told by both Twain and Nelson was issued this year along with these other scholarly tracts on Huck. My part in this story is merely to try to get his book more recognition in the face of all this competition.

Given that the first part of this novel is only Twain's rough draft and that the reason he didn't finish it may be that he didn't think enough of it, Lee Nelson has done an admirable job of making it a readable piece. Actually the second "half" moves more quickly than the first.

Now, before anyone thinks I've just committed blasphemy, I refer you to the disclaimer above. It is believed that Twain's part of the book is a first and rough draft. I found it poorly motivated and very nearly a snooze. Somewhere, though, it became a page-turner and that happened about where Nelson's story took over. Nelson had a couple of advantages:
1. He had a chance to polish his part of the book. He couldn't do so with Twain's part; it is obviously too sacred to touch.
2. The book is at least in part about the "defilement" of a young woman and that was a touchier subject back in the 1800s than it is now. Nelson treats it delicately as possible he has a certain advantage because of changed attitudes.

What felt uncomfortable to me in light of the fact that Twain himself called the Book of Mormon "chloroform in print" and that he was otherwise no big fan of the Mormon culture is that Nelson brings lots of extremely idealized Mormon history into this book, especially the near-hero worship of a couple of Danites who undoubtedly would be neither admired by Twain nor by an young man as clever as Huckleberry Finn. Nevertheless this is fiction and Nelson does not claim to be a literary scholar.

That this book was released at a time when the treatment of women after their reputations have been sullied (at no fault of their own) is regularly in the news makes this book as relevant as if it has been thought of only yesterday. Huck observes that the "stuff" that comes from books isn't the same as the "stuff" that happens in the real world; basically he's saying that idealizing any subject may lead to intolerance. He applies his theories of acceptance to the debasement of his dear Peggy's reputation as well as to many other situations he meets along the way to adventure in the West. It is interesting to note that Nelson's Huck is just as sage without nary a shred of book larnin' even when he's assessing a subject as serious as this. He's just as droll and witty, too.

That Nelson did a darn good job of remaining faithful to an unfinished Twain original should certainly qualify his book for inclusion in the hefty publicity these other books on Twain are getting. I wonder if any of the big review journals-or the LA Times for that matter-are listening?

(Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards.Her newly released Harkening has won three.
Both books, like Lee Nelson's, include something of Utah's fascinating history.)

Terrible!.......2003-08-05

Once again I wish I could give a book a negative number of stars due to the poor quality of the book.

Lisa G. from UT and the book's promotional material try to lead you to believe that the transition from the Twain text and the Nelson text is seamless, when the truth is that the change is so abrupt and annoying that I could hardly finish reading the book. Twain starts the book as another narrative written by Huck Finn. When Nelson takes over, the voice of Huck Finn disappears to be replaced by some sort of stilted, sportscaster style of reporting events as they unfold. While Twain would have Huck write something similar to "I warn't cornsarned about how far he would get. He lit on his horse and high tailed it out of there. I dasn't call out to him. I dasn't resk it.", Nelson would write that same passage: "I don't worry. He gets on his horse and rides out. I don't risk calling out to him." The style is so stilted it is very painful to read. Ironically Nelson seems to try to defend this style in his introduction by pointing out that Twain has Huck drift in and out of the past and present tense. This is true to some extent, but Twain tends to restrict the use of present tense to passages containing a lot of dialogue. Appropos of dialogue, Twain writes more dialogue than Nelson, most likely because Nelson is incapable of writing authentic dialogue in the dialects that Twain had given them (particularly in the case of Jim). Nelson seems to think that some sort of pidgin English is the equivalent of the dialects spoken by Twain's characters.

As far as the story goes, it just isn't consistent with anything Twain would have written. The relationship between Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn doesn't ring true, nor does the relationship between Jim and any of the other characters. Somehow Tom and Huck age about eight years in the course of a single summer. Nelson (LDS himself) introduces Mormonism into the story and seems so intent on portraying it in a positive light that he even goes so far as to bring in the real life LDS criminal assasins Porter Rockwell and Bill Hickman, portraying them as some sort of wild West heroes equal to Wyatt Earp. Anybody who knows anything about Twain knows that he had nothing but disdain for the LDS.

If you are a real Twain fan, you won't want to read this. Even the parts that Twain wrote were not edited and there are a few places where it is apparent that Twain would have changed what he wrote had he continued this work. You also won't want to suffer through the butchery of the characters that Nelson performs. If you are not a fan of Twain, you won't want to read it either.

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Huck Finn and his critics
Richard Lettis , Robert F. McDonnell , and William E. Morris
Manufacturer: MacMillan
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006AXWC2

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An Adventure

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)

The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn

Legendary

An adventurous novel, my favorite book!

Adv of Huck Finn
Mark Twain
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0440300282
Release Date: 1977-11-15

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A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published.

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'Cordially hated and dreaded by all the mothers of the town because he was idle, and lawless, vulgar, and bad - and because all their children admired him so', Huckleberry Finn, the fourteen-year-old son of the town drunkard, joins runaway slave Jim on an exciting journey down the mighty Mississippi River on a raft.

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An Adventure.......2007-08-30

It has been said that all American literature begins with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Reading this book for the first time was a delight. Though I was thoroughly familiar with most of the story, I still found the book to be a page turner. The character of Huck, the manchild, has to be one of the most fascinating in all of literature.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics).......2007-08-05

I read this book years ago when I was very young, but it still stands today as my alltime favorite. As I turned the pages, I lived that exciting adventure along with Huck and Jim. The language is a bit difficult at first, but you get the hang of it rather quickly. It is recommended reading for all ages.

The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn.......2007-07-19

Again, I am never disappointed in purchasing books from you because they are always superior to buying local. Thanks for your service you provide to your customers.

Legendary.......2007-06-25

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: classic. I really enjoyed this book. Mark Twain managed to keep the boyish atmosphere of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer while adding in adult like concepts, such as decisive moral choice and honor, to create a work of fiction that many hail to be the "Great American Novel."

If you're not familiar with the story: Huck, after having found riches with Tom Sawyer, is living with the Widow Douglas and no longer leading a life of vagrancy. I won't go too deeply into the story because: a) there are a lot of plot elements and it would be impossible and b) it really is something that you have to experience through the eyes and in the language of Huck Finn (the entire story is written from his perspective and in his dialect as opposed to the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which was written in Twain's distinct voice). Notable plot elements: Huck's escape from Pap, Jim and Huck's travel down the Mississippi, the Duke and the Dauphin and the Royal Nonesuch, and Huck and Tom's (who is present at the end of the book) contrivance to "free" Jim (you'll understand the "quotations" after you read the book).

Overall, all the hype surrounding this book is well deserved. Anyone who can read the English language should read this book (it should be a requirement punishable by death). You won't be disappointed.

An adventurous novel, my favorite book!.......2007-06-12

Witness Huck's transformation into maturity, through reading this captivating book that preaches independence and loyalty. Huck's dedication to his friend, Jim, is truly touching and serves as an inspiration to all!
Since the beginning of Huck's journey, Huck is living on his own without real adult supervision for the first time. He escapes from the custody of his abusive and manipulative father, and runs into Jim, who becomes a father figure to Huck later on in the story. Along with this "independence" Huck is forced to make his own decisions, which Huck first derives from the racist thoughts he had learned growing up, which he was having problems applying to his new African American, and escaped slave, friend. As Huck sees the cruelties of the world, where the white race call African Americans "[...]" and when the life of a slave is not valued, he eventually decides that what he was taught as a young child, no longer applied to the circumstances that he now lived in. As a reader, we can read and marvel at the brave adventures that Huck takes on and acknowledge him for his independent thinking!
Huck's refusal to give up their friendship and trust, and the knowledge and wisdom that Huck gained should be envied by everyone. Therefore, Huck is an inspiration for courageously breaking away from the negative views of society by upholding honor and establishing his individuality. Don't miss out on a book that can change your own outlook on life, learn the positive impact your decisions can make on the world!

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Adventures of Huck Finn
Rh Value Publishing
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517600978
Release Date: 1985-09-10

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Adventures of Huck Finn
Mark Twain
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 1558902147

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Manufacturer: Pocket Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0671488724

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An Enriched Classic Edition, this 5th printing of Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is not just a sequal to Tom Swayer, it is a much more accomplished and serious work.

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