Of course I had read it in school time. But I wanted to read it again! Because it is such a nice story, I think, that everyone had heard it, watched a movie or had read it.
If you ever think about treasure or pirates

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انها كلاسيكية وجميلة ورائعة

Celebrity Death Match Special:
Mein Kampf versus Treasure Island



Blatantly stolen from ☯Bettie☯

I last read Treasure Island as a child. So glad I reread it. It’s a wonderful pirate adventure story. Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Blind Pew, the squire, Ben Gunn and the others.

The eccentric angry Captain staying at Jim’s fathers inn the Admiral Benbow and being discovered by his estranged companions. The black spot. The discovery of the treasure map and the voyage out. Then the betrayal, fights, Jim always in the thick of it either in an Apple barrel, up a mast or wondering what Silver will do next. He swaps sides more than a liberal democrat on speed.

Treasure Island is a true classic and I plan to watch the 1934 black and white movie on YouTube in the near future.

This was a hoot to listen to as an audio book & very well narrated by Neil Hunt. This is the mother of every pirate story I've ever read or seen, I think. The language was incomprehensible at times, on purpose, as even Jim Hawkins wasn't sure he always got the right of it. If I ever hear "15 men on a dead man's chest" again, I'll scream.
;)

The characters were great, of course. Long John Silver is quite the rogue & Jim is the boy we all wish we were. Somehow our extraneous adventures never turned out half so well, unfortunately. Still, it was fun hoping.

I read this as a kid & it was great to go through it again after all these years. Definitely a classic.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Shiver me timbers!

This is THE PENULTIMATE pirate adventure, me mateys!

Never mind that it's written for a 12-year-old or that practically every aspect of this adventure has percolated through our collective zeitgeist.

Here it is! The YA to eat ALL YA. Or the tale to drown your young one in so much rum that he or she expires by the bloody knife he or she didn't see while inebriated or by the blasted drink itself.

Pure escapism? No. There's a bit of a heart in here and mercy is not the least of it. But even mercy has a very keen edge.

Pirates, mutiny, dastardly villainy, greed, and democratically elected captaincies.

Wait... WHAT?

*slips quietly out the back door*

Where's Sparrow?


Even so, this was quite a fun diversion. :)

"There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward"
-- Long John Silver --

Long before there was a Captain Jack Sparrow, there was Long John Silver. In fact, Disney, the producer of Pirates of the Caribbean, did a movie remake of Treasure Island back in 1950. Some believe Disneyland's pirate ride, which opened in 1967, was modeled after the classic Robert Louis Stevenson novel.

We all know the story, or at least have heard the names. Vague memories from high school days gone by. The opening chapter is vivid in pirate lore. The bedraggled pirate, Billy Bones, checks into the seaside inn, Admiral Benbow, along with his pirate trunk. He drinks rum, sings "fifteen men on a dead man's chest" and befriends the son of the innkeeper, Jim Hawkins. He asks the young boy to let him know immediately if he spies a one-legged man. Soon after, a blind man enters the inn and gives the pirate a piece of paper with a black spot on it, and the pirate then promptly falls over dead. Jim soon discovers a treasure map hidden in the pirate's trunk. Thus begins the adventure to find the lost treasure of Captain Flint.

The main character, Long John Silver, is epic. He's the ultimate politician, as he tends to blow with the wind. One never knows who's side he's really on. He's a smooth operator. He'll save your neck one minute, and slice it the next. Like Johnny Depp's role in Pirates, Long John is indeed colorful. His parrot, Flint, sits on his shoulder and squawks "pieces of eight!". What can I say, you just gotta like my man, LJ!

I enjoyed this book much more than when I was required to read it in school years. The story is, well, ...classic. My only beef is that sometimes I'm not quite up to speed on my pirate lingo and that really slows me down. But, it truly is a must read.

Review to follow.

Not my cup of rum! Phasenweise ganz nett zu lesen, aber ich bekam die Stimme von Captain Blaubär nicht aus dem Ohr, der elendlanges Seemannsgarn spann. Piratengeschichten sind nicht mein Ding. Die Buchillustrationen in der Ausgabe waren künsterlich fürchterlich und hinsichtlich der Gewaltdarstellung mir zu grausam. Nichts, was ich meinen Kindern vorgelesen hätte. Und da künftige Enkel auch davon verschont bleiben sollen, wandert das Buch wieder in den öffentlichen Bücherschrank, wo es auch herkam.

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

“Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson is a solid gold classic about 140 years old. This pirate story is one book that many of us were exposed to in our childhood,

For me, I don’t remember reading the book although I had a great comic book about it, watched a movie about the story and there were cartoon shows.

The characters are very interesting and memorable. We might remember the evil Captain Flint, John Silver with his peg leg, and parrot. Also minor characters like
Billy Bones, Black Dog, Pew and Israel Hands—all great names.

It is a great novel that keeps its fast pace throughout. Lots of action flows from the beginning like mutiny and cruel punishments.

Stevenson crafts his story with colorful details like peg legs, parrots, grubby dress and vivid settings. This book set the path for all the pirate stories thereafter.

The amazing “Treasure Island” which is the longest-living pirate adventure story seems fresh still.

I highly recommend

My god that ending…sad and yet so true. Not the kind of ending you would expect in a book about buried treasure, and adventure on the high seas but…maybe it should be.

Jim e seus amigos navegam em busca do lendário tesouro do famoso capitão Flint. Mas eles nem imaginam que o terrível pirata Long John Silver , disfarçado de cozinheiro,e  também outros piratas membros da tripulação estão  atrás da fortuna e dispostos a tudo para consegui-la.

O que é mais interessante em relação a esse livro é que a imagem  que se estabeleceu em relação aos piratas e a caça ao tesouro vem desse livro como: mapa do tesouro, papagaio no ombro , perna-de-pau , bebedeira com rum, as cantigas , o x  no mapa indicando o lugar do tesouro. Tudo começou com esse livro!

Esse era pra ser um livro infantojuvenil ,pois na verdade Stevenson o escreveu para o seu enteado pré-  adolescente, mas cativa a todos, não importa a idade.

Publicado em 1883 o livro é um clássico,um sucesso de adaptações até hoje.