This is just a good old-fashioned tale of adventure and pirates and mutiny and double- and triple-crossers, and of course, buried treasure. Sometimes I have trouble with old books because the authors used five sentences where one would do, but this book moves very swiftly, only 200 pages or so. It...
Years ago I saw a musical based on this story and loved it, so when I found it on LibriVox I felt it was time to get reacquainted with the story. Very charming, and I understand why it's become a classic.
I read Treasure Island at a young age and was traumatized. I don't think I was expecting so much murder and violence. Silly me: it's a book about pirates. What was I expecting?That's all I remember about Treasure Island, besides the fact that the Muppets once did a parody of it. I think I preferred ...
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