Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I have just started Mark Twain’s, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  As of now, I am only 60 pages into the reading and it is good, but I am hoping that it will continue to pick up.  I have never read any Mark Twain before, and I am impressed with his ability to weave a story and create characters.  So far, I am most impressed with the way that Mark Twain created the slang and broken English in the text.  Furthermore, not only does Twain give Huck Finn slang speech at the beginning, but one can see how Huck’s speech continues to improve with his schooling, which I found very impressive.  Whether Huck, Jim, Huck’s drunken father, or the widow, the way Twain develops his characters is very helpful to the readers’ understanding of the novel.