You know, in another sense, I think Mark Twain was being honest about the "notice." There's not much of a plot. Most of the time with books or movies with lame or non-existent plots, I find very little motivation to continue reading or watching. I mean... why? It's going nowhere! HOWEVER, Huck Finn - thankfully! - is different, because Twain has done a good enough job of making the story truly interesting despite the lack of plot. But, when you think about it, isn't his story a bit more realistic to life? Yes, we have times in life when it looks like a typical story: the episode has a beginning, some kind of rising action, a climax, and then it's "the end" of that. But life as a whole flows more like Huck's string of adventures than those stories. In most stories, see, you come to the end and that's it, because the author was trying to make a point, send a message, convey meaning, yada yada yada - not tell you the life story of John or Bob or whatever the character's name is. I think Twain's writing style here has value, and we shouldn't dismiss the book because there's not a plot. Twain is too good a writer for you to say that. :)
~Huckleberry's Friend
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