I thought I'd give myself a break after The Shining and read a nice simple kids' book.
Treasure Island tells the story of Jim Hawkins, a simple inn-keeper's son, whose meeting with "The Captain" leads him into a life of adventure and danger as he sails in search of treasure with a crew full of pirates.
It's really good fun this book. It is just a great adventure book for boys. I don't mean that in a sexist way just that this story has adventure, fighting, pirates and mystery and I can really picture kids reading it and then playing pirates for the next few months, each fighting to be Jim the hero. The characters are simple without being boring and 2D and the story keeps moving at a pace so you never get bored.
One thing that maybe wasn't so great was the amount of boaty jargon used. Obviously at the time these terms would be more commonplace but reading it now I was often confused by where people were and what they were talking about. But it didn't matter that much because the basic message of "there be scary pirates coming to get you" was never really lost.
This book is great if you just want to forget all responsibilities and feel like a kid again for a few hours, and seeing as I read it while stuck on the M40 for 5 hours that seems pretty good to me.
Treasure Island tells the story of Jim Hawkins, a simple inn-keeper's son, whose meeting with "The Captain" leads him into a life of adventure and danger as he sails in search of treasure with a crew full of pirates.
It's really good fun this book. It is just a great adventure book for boys. I don't mean that in a sexist way just that this story has adventure, fighting, pirates and mystery and I can really picture kids reading it and then playing pirates for the next few months, each fighting to be Jim the hero. The characters are simple without being boring and 2D and the story keeps moving at a pace so you never get bored.
One thing that maybe wasn't so great was the amount of boaty jargon used. Obviously at the time these terms would be more commonplace but reading it now I was often confused by where people were and what they were talking about. But it didn't matter that much because the basic message of "there be scary pirates coming to get you" was never really lost.
This book is great if you just want to forget all responsibilities and feel like a kid again for a few hours, and seeing as I read it while stuck on the M40 for 5 hours that seems pretty good to me.
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