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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Real wild to read smth set before women were invented
Now because I read a short version of the book and not the original, I'm not sure what I should feel about this. It failed to hold my attention, and I had to take a lot of tries to read but. The entire story was amazing, the adventurers daring and the situations dire. The narration wasn't great, to be honest. I have mixed feelings about this one.
2022 Pop Sugar Reading Challenge-a book with a protagonist who uses a mobility aid.
I'm not the target audience, but I found it fairly boring, and oddly bloodthirsty for a children's book.
I'm not the target audience, but I found it fairly boring, and oddly bloodthirsty for a children's book.
I really liked Treasure Island. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would, which might not be the fairest of statements, but it's a true one. I vaguely recalled reading this story when I was younger and not liking it at all, but going back and reading it now was a rather fun adventure. It is in no way a deep story, but it's a decently enjoyable one (once you get passed all the pirate speak). Pirates, treasure, adventure on the high seas, treachery, a crazy man that has been stranded and alone for 3 years - it's all there, complete with gun fights and a little bit of swashbuckling.
The only tricky part is the language, but if you're willing to work through pirate speak, it's a fun little book that goes by quickly and goes down well. I recommend it for some late summer reading.
The only tricky part is the language, but if you're willing to work through pirate speak, it's a fun little book that goes by quickly and goes down well. I recommend it for some late summer reading.
I felt the plot could have been more interesting. It takes a while for the book to get to the island and in my opinion I thought when they got there, more time could have been spent describing it. I'm not typically a fan of older literature so my view is biased but I felt myself zoning out when reading, as I thought parts were irrelevant and boring.
adventurous
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I first read Treasure Island island in fourth grade. And I grew frustrated with the nautical terminology. No doubt I was too young for the story.
In sixth grade, I tried again. And failed again. 2 years of wisdom were not enough to get past those darn ships. Nothing was stopping me from using a dictionary to decipher each arcane sentence. But honestly? That was too much. Reading was only fun when it wasn't homework. And nautical dictionaries made Treasures Island feel like one big homework assignment.
The story was one of those pistachios with the shell sealed shut. I'm sure there was something delicious inside, but I could not find out what was inside. Maybe I wasn't smart enough to understand the book.
And now, I'm 27, and honestly? The seaman vocabulary is still indecipherable. The intervening 15 years have done little to help my boat-based understanding. It seems that the young readers of the 1890s were fluent in galleys and gibbets. That's a language that still doesn't come naturally to me.
But I did learn something. Understading every sentence doesn't much matter. I still cannot crack the nut, but it's nice to just suck on the shell
In sixth grade, I tried again. And failed again. 2 years of wisdom were not enough to get past those darn ships. Nothing was stopping me from using a dictionary to decipher each arcane sentence. But honestly? That was too much. Reading was only fun when it wasn't homework. And nautical dictionaries made Treasures Island feel like one big homework assignment.
The story was one of those pistachios with the shell sealed shut. I'm sure there was something delicious inside, but I could not find out what was inside. Maybe I wasn't smart enough to understand the book.
And now, I'm 27, and honestly? The seaman vocabulary is still indecipherable. The intervening 15 years have done little to help my boat-based understanding. It seems that the young readers of the 1890s were fluent in galleys and gibbets. That's a language that still doesn't come naturally to me.
But I did learn something. Understading every sentence doesn't much matter. I still cannot crack the nut, but it's nice to just suck on the shell
Part of a second-hand bookshop haul. I especially loved the beginning, which immediately made me go yes! take me on this swashbuckling adventure now! But for me, the book somehow started losing most of its charm soon after Jim takes to sea. Too much distance in the writing, I think. The descriptions, be it environs, action or emotion, were just a bit too business-like. Of course it's an old book, and I read a fairly old translation. All in all, I'm very happy to own it and to have read it. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— ...Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!