Curse You, Facebook!

This is why I hate Facebook.

I ran across something on Facebook the other day that really chapped my hide.  It's a couple.  These are two people I never needed to see again.  When I was 14 I was so in love with this girl.  It was 1979.  We were both in the 9th grade.  But she fell in love with another guy.  We'll call him X, for Xtremely Getting In My Way.  X was in the 11th grade.  X and Y (for Y didn't you pick me!) started dating at that tender, young age.  She was freaking fourteen!  She wasn't supposed to find her "forever love".  But she did.  And now it's like a hundred years later and they are still together.

There's a picture of them on Facebook and they're all so freakin' happy and sappy together, him with his graying hair and pictures of their grown kids and everything.  Sheesh.

See, the problem is I never had my chance.  This dude swooped in before I could get puberty under control and talk to her.  She was my first love.  But her first love was X.  I guess he was her last love.  What a freakin' waste of time to know all this crap, all thanks to Facebook.

Book Review: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884-5) - The Conflict

Here is the conflict, in a nutshell.  Huck is helping Jim escape from slavery, and he feels guilty about it.

Jim talked out loud all the time while I was talking to myself.  He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free State he would go to saving up money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived; and then they would both work to buy the two children, and if their master wouldn't sell them, they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them. 

Book Review: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884-5)

This may be one of the most reviewed books in the history of people like me reviewing books.  In fact, entire books have been written to review this book.  Then you have to review those books, and it just never ends.

So I'm not going to fester on this.  I'm mainly interested in how well it stands up to modern readers, which I have mixed feelings on.  I'll go over a few things that struck me about this book.