About this title: Jim Hawkins, who narrates Stevenson's classic tale, is rewarded for his assistance to an old pirate, Billy Bones, with a map showing the way to buried treasure. He and his associates set sail for the island on a ship manned by a band of pirates--a fact they discover en route. The pirate king is the notorious one-legged cook Long John Silver, one of Stevenson's most delightfully conceived villains. The pirates are vanquished, the treasure is retrieved, and Stevenson's novel is widely loved, and admired as one of the great adventure novels of all time.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Troll Communications
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780816725618ISBN:0816725616
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Troll Communications
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780816725618ISBN:0816725616
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"Surprisingly, I'm still currently reading Treasure Island. I got an app for my new iphone called "classics" which has like 20 books to read on the phone. I started reading it while bored waiting in a store one day, and I actually really like it! Being a girl, I really thought this book would not appeal to me, but it is pretty exciting and good. I read aloud parts of this book to my little 4 year old son and he liked it a lot (but I skipped over the violent murder scene contained in those pages; I think one good pirate in my censored version got "hit" not murdered, and then the bad pirate might go on "time out"!). It is the first no-pictures read aloud and the first adult read aloud my son has ever sat still for. And it had lots of high level words and old English. It's a good sign, if me, that reads books with good female characters, and my boy, who "reads" picture books with dump trucks, both like this book. At he point I am at they have just arrived at the Island, deceptions have been discovered and lots of good adventures are about to begin."
"I chose to read Treasure Island for several reasons...the main one being that a previous book i read had some exciting pirate adventures, and i was having so much fun with that, i decided to stay with that theme! Besides, how did i get thru my childhood without reading this book? The story was fun and exciting, but i did find the writing a bit hard to get into sometimes. I tried to read some of it out loud to my daughter and that was a disaster! Once i got into the book, however, the writing didnt seem to bother me as much. I imagine this would have been rather exciting to read as a child...Jim was definitely a likable character, and his crazy reaction to situations were entertaining as well. But i really enjoyed Long John Silver...what a shady, interesting and fun character he was, by thunder! Always playing the game...always the pirate :) For such a short story, it was filled with lots of excitement, and its obvious that Robert Louis Stevenson was a fan of the tropics, the seas and adventure. His travels helped to tell a thrilling story for folks that, at that time, probably couldnt even dream of those kind of places. A story well worth the read, even if just once! Pieces of eight...pieces of eight....pieces of eight......"
"To my regret I never had a chance to read Robert Louis Stevenson as a child - so now I'm attempting to catch up on my youth. I breezed through TREASURE ISLAND in the space of a few days and found it a delightful read that fully deserves its classic status.
It's an adventure story, nothing less than that, nothing more than that, and Stevenson excels at what he sets out to do: enthral and entertain the reader. My favourite scenes of the book are the opening chapters, set on a coastal inn and concerning a mysterious pirate whose death sets the plot in action.
From then on in, the pace doesn't let up, a wonderful cast of larger-than-life characters fill the page, there's enough excitement to fill a dozen novels and then it's all over, and it's the kind of book you want to go back and start all over again.
Writing genuinely exciting action is a difficult skill but one Stevenson pulls off admirably. His characterisation is thin, but then it doesn't need to be anything else. These days, pirates are seen as glamorous in the media (I'm thinking of the ludicrous Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean) but they're mean and vicious here, so the raw edge of realism holds things together nicely.
And what characters! Jim Hawkins, Blind Pew, Black Dog, Ben Gunn, Israel Hands - and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Long John Silver, who's gone down in history as one of the most interesting and entertaining fictional characters of all time.
All in all a fantastic read and the template of what a good adventure story should be, no matter whether it's targeted at adults or children."
"Maybe it's because I grew up, along with how many tens of millions of others, with the mythology of pirates in my head, or maybe it's the adrenaline-pumping action of a good adventure story, but I absolutely loved this book. In fact, I had to force myself to set it aside for a few hours at a time, to draw it out as long as I could stand, to savor every aspect of the classic story. I was not, nor am I now, well-versed in pirate lore, or knew at all the tale of Treasure Island and Long John Silver. But I did see the Disney spin on the tale, Treasure Planet, and upon seeing that movie (which I really enjoyed), I knew I had to read the book counterpart. As I said, I loved it. From he foreshadowing and development, to the choice of words and phrase and buildup that left me breathless in all the right places (Hawkins and Hands fighting on the nearly-sinking Hispaniola, the six remaining mutineers finding the treasure has been taken long before they set foot on the island), to Silver himself, a man you can't help put love in spite of good conscience. It all coalesced so perfectly as to make a book that I am happy to add to my "favorites" collection. So, so, so worth the read!"
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