A review by scrillionaire
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

5.0

If you look up the phrase "rollicking adventure" you will probably find a link to Treasure Island, because lemme tell you this book is rollicking as all hell. There's a reason it's the literal archetype for the modern concept of (and infatuation with) pirates – Long John Silver walked (er, limped) so that Jack Sparrow could run (er, stagger). You can't even get mad at Robert Louis Stevenson for making the protagonist nothing more than a narrative device wearing the clothes of a 13-year-old boy, because the story is just *too damn rollicking.*