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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Poor Robert Louis Stevenson. I'll be amazed if any reader comes to Treasure Island and not already know there's pirates aboard the Hispaniola. Though to be fair, even if you didn't, you'd have to be blind to not know something is up with Long John Silver. Captain Smollett should've just turned around when he heard half the ship's crew was picked by the COOK.
It's an enjoyable read...at the very beginning and very end. Mad Billy Bones's gibbering exile and Long John's wily maneuvering with his mutinous crew are the fun stuff, with long drags in the middle of Jim Hawkins Boy-Wonder avoiding trouble largely through ass-pull luck. The movie adaptations had the good sense to highlight the interesting characters in Stevenson's maritime yarn like Silver, Bones, and Smollett, and none of them are Jim Hawkins.
Fine enough, I reckon. It feels a little dull at times for young readers, and meatless for an older reader, but there's something charming enough in Long John Silver's brutal eloquence to keep ya occupied for most of it.
It's an enjoyable read...at the very beginning and very end. Mad Billy Bones's gibbering exile and Long John's wily maneuvering with his mutinous crew are the fun stuff, with long drags in the middle of Jim Hawkins Boy-Wonder avoiding trouble largely through ass-pull luck. The movie adaptations had the good sense to highlight the interesting characters in Stevenson's maritime yarn like Silver, Bones, and Smollett, and none of them are Jim Hawkins.
Fine enough, I reckon. It feels a little dull at times for young readers, and meatless for an older reader, but there's something charming enough in Long John Silver's brutal eloquence to keep ya occupied for most of it.