lindadielemans 's review for:

Schateiland by Robert Louis Stevenson

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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!