Treasure Island

Hardcover, 216 pages

English language

Published Oct. 12, 2007 by IndyPublish.

ISBN:
978-1-74181-478-1
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OCLC Number:
232633100

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4 stars (39 reviews)

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous, including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots on their shoulders

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4 stars

An interesting new series. I actually (read/listened to) it on Audible, not Kindle...
It is an intriguing combination of nationalities and personalities and how they overcame personal differences in order to combine to make a reasonable team. There were unexpected and surprising understandings between individuals, and it was satisfying the way necessary alliances were made

Perhaps it was a bit too short, but it was still enjoyable.

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4 stars

Not going to lie. I didn't expect a space opera series to end up focusing so much on horses. I'm not complaining. I like horses.

After trying to open up a new trade route, Reese and the crew fall into the hands of slavers again. Hirianthial, the Eldritch crew member fights back. He realizes that his psychic powers are getting more powerful. In fact, the only person he's ever heard of with these powers went insane and killed a lot of people on the Eldritch planet.

The Eldritch have kept the planet closed off forever. Bringing a crew of non-Eldritch in is going to be a problem.

The slow romance between Reese and Hirianthial continues. I enjoyed the idea of Reese trying to build a relationship based on what she read in romance books. She gets a bit annoyed when he doesn't act like the heroes she reads about.

This …

reviewed Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (The biographical edition of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson)

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3 stars

This is another one of those books that I never finished in my youth. I don't think I would've ever fully appreciated it back then, because the language IS rather... foreign.

Having read it now, as an adult, it's not a bad story. The ending is definitely not what I had been led to believe from everything I'd heard about it. Jim Hawkins, the doctor, Benn Gunn and Long John Silver are all memorable characters. They're well fleshed out and consistently portrayed.

The story itself has it's moments. I will confess to reading four or five pages, and at times stopping to wonder what had just happened. Some chapters I didn't have a clue what was going on, and because of it I missed important pieces of information which only served to confuse me further down the road. Other times, though, I was riveted, and that's what finally decided the …

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