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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
If this book were a movie, it would be a big summer blockbuster, a truly great blockbuster. Maybe not Jaws, but definitely on the level of Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, or Die Hard. It's a great rollicking adventure, a thrill ride told masterfully. It doesn't have a moral -- good people die while the biggest villain gets away with part of the treasure -- but that doesn't stop it from being a fantastic tale. There's a good reason that both the story and the character of Long John Silver have been adapted, parodied, and otherwise reused so many times: they are wonderful inventions. But it's not just the story or the characters that make Treasure Island so great, it's that they are presented here by a masterful writer at (or at least near) the height of his craft. Taken on its own terms, it's hard to conceive how this novel could have been any better.