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Treasure Island (Great Illustrated Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson , A.J. McAllister , Robert Louis Stevenson
by Robert Louis Stevenson , A.J. McAllister , Robert Louis Stevenson
Rules for writing a great book:
Someone near and dear needs to die.
There can be no going back – it is crash through or crash time.
Some of the good guys have to have near fatal flaws – some of the bad guys need to be damn charming. Oh Long John Silver, what a great character.
Mortal danger – lots and lots of mortal danger.
And the most frightening character in the book needs to be someone who would normally be the least frightening. No wonder Tom Waits talks about the tap, tap, tap of a blind man’s cane – I just didn’t realise he was quoting Stevenson.
What a romp, what a read, what a book. What a pity I waited until I was 45 to read it.
In high school, when I was a bit obsessed with Lord of the Flies I was told that book was based on this book. What seems virtually certain is that they are both set on the same island. I should go back and double check at some stage.
Someone near and dear needs to die.
There can be no going back – it is crash through or crash time.
Some of the good guys have to have near fatal flaws – some of the bad guys need to be damn charming. Oh Long John Silver, what a great character.
Mortal danger – lots and lots of mortal danger.
And the most frightening character in the book needs to be someone who would normally be the least frightening. No wonder Tom Waits talks about the tap, tap, tap of a blind man’s cane – I just didn’t realise he was quoting Stevenson.
What a romp, what a read, what a book. What a pity I waited until I was 45 to read it.
In high school, when I was a bit obsessed with Lord of the Flies I was told that book was based on this book. What seems virtually certain is that they are both set on the same island. I should go back and double check at some stage.
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Lord of the Flies does refer to Treasure Island, but also Ballantyne's The Coral Island -- and the island in L of the F is a coral island. And I seem to remember the characters in The Coral Island are Jack and Ralph -- so I think Golding was more reacting against the latter than the former. Treasure Island is a better book. R L Stevenson is a brilliant writer, and also wrote some marvellous poems. I like his moustache too.
