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Original rating: 3 stars
Updated rating: 3 stars (yup, no change)
I originally read this book when I was 12 or 13. I wrote a book report on it for a middle school English class. I also remember that I read it while on Spring Break in Florida - so it was kind of cool to read this while in a somewhat tropical climate. I remember that I liked it okay, but when you are reading it for school, you sometimes cannot trust a lukewarm memory of a book.
In this case, my memory was spot on!
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Updated rating: 3 stars (yup, no change)
I originally read this book when I was 12 or 13. I wrote a book report on it for a middle school English class. I also remember that I read it while on Spring Break in Florida - so it was kind of cool to read this while in a somewhat tropical climate. I remember that I liked it okay, but when you are reading it for school, you sometimes cannot trust a lukewarm memory of a book.
In this case, my memory was spot on!
I can describe this ...more
Although rated as a children's book, there is some real terror at the beginning as well as a murder. This is a classic and wonderful tale of pirates that has been made into innumerable films and features characters that have entered deeply into the imagination of children that now they have heard of the characters but have no idea what book they came from and almost assume that they were historical figures. Perhaps the best screen adaptation I have enjoyed of Treasure Island is the prequel serie
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The narration by Alfred Molina was a pleasure. I liked his various and sundry pirate voices :D.
This was a re-read for me, I followed along with a kindle book included in a 5-book 'Adventure Collection'.
I just read Treasure Island in hardcover a month ago, followed the next day by a modern sequel by Leonard Wibberly (called Flint's Island), and then the first book in a modern prequel trilogy by John Drake (called Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island, all of which I liked very well!, but ...more
This was a re-read for me, I followed along with a kindle book included in a 5-book 'Adventure Collection'.
I just read Treasure Island in hardcover a month ago, followed the next day by a modern sequel by Leonard Wibberly (called Flint's Island), and then the first book in a modern prequel trilogy by John Drake (called Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island, all of which I liked very well!, but ...more
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